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The State of the United States
March 29, 2016 | Richard N. Haass
The US presidential election is still more than half a year away, and it is impossible to know with any certainty who will be nominated to represent the major parties, much...
Humanistanbul: World Humanitarian Summit
March 28, 2016 | Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Despite worldwide shock and indignation, it looks like little Aylan Kurdi’s tragic death last summer changed little. This is a sad – but brutal – comment on our...
Digital Globalization and the Developing World
March 28, 2016 | Laura Tyson and Susan Lund
Globalization is entering a new era, defined not only by cross-border flows of goods and capital, but also, and increasingly, by flows of data and information. This shift...
The Fragile Political Environment
March 27, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
After the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001, there are still signs of simmering inter-ethnic tensions boiling in Afghanistan that threaten the very fabric of the current...
ISIL – A Global Threat
March 27, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
With the emergence of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Afghan nation fell at the mercy of immense violence and militancy. The individuals...
The Challenges Hampering the Development Efforts
March 26, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
Representatives of twenty member countries of G7+ group – which comprises the conflict-affected nations – came together in Kabul to discuss common experiences and challenges...
Fast-Tracking Climate Action
March 26, 2016 | Achim Steiner and Christiana Figueres
Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to...
Fast-Tracking Climate Action
March 26, 2016 | Achim Steiner and Christiana Figueres
Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to...
Russia Gained a Lot in Syria
March 24, 2016 | Manish Rai
With the formal end to five and half month of the Russian brief military intervention in Syria. Many analysts are busy drawing Russian Profit and Loss account in Syria...
Will Talks with Hizb-e Islami Help Peace Process?
March 24, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
With peace talks between Taliban and the Afghan government in a stalemate, the Afghan government welcomed Hekmatyar-led Hizb-e Islami’s move to enter the talks backed...
Poetry – An Integral Part of Art
March 23, 2016 | Dilawar Sherzai
March 21 was celebrated as World Poetry Day throughout the world. The Day was basically declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
Revitalizing the Minsk Agreement
March 23, 2016 | Carl Bildt
There are two possible futures for eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. One could be found under the framework of the Minsk peace process, the series of agreements...
Managing the Politics of Water
March 19, 2016 | El Hassan bin Talal and Sundeep Waslekar
This year’s World Water Day, on March 22, provides an opportunity to highlight what in many countries has become a grim reality: The availability of fresh water is...
China’s High-Income Future
March 19, 2016 | Erik Berglöf
What if this is ‘as good as it gets’?” Jack Nicholson asks, as he walks through his psychiatrist’s waiting room in the eponymous film...
Stop Violence and Bloodshed
March 17, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are...
The Challenges Facing Afghanistan in 2016
March 17, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
The developments in Afghanistan in last two years – 2014 and 2015 – ushered in many of the today’s challenges the country is facing. With the upcoming war season just...
Is There a Ground for Peace Talks?
March 16, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
As the Afghan Government trying to pursue the Taliban to join the peace process, there are widespread skepticisms among the public towards the peace negotiations with the Taliban...
The Politics of Polio Eradication
March 16, 2016 | Jonathan Kennedy and DomnaMichailidou
A few years ago, the global campaign to eradicate polio seemed to have stalled. After decades of eradication efforts, the virus remained stubbornly endemic in Pakistan...
Hotbeds of Terror Should be Ruined
March 15, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
In retrospect, the conflagration and massacre of the dark days of war by Taliban’s regime will never fade into oblivion. Afghan people recoil with fear and hatred whenever...
China Contributes to the Development of Afghanistan
March 15, 2016 | Mr. Wang Daohao
China is a friendly neighbor of Afghanistan. The two countries are of a community of shared destiny. Based on that, China would like to see a stable and prosperous Afghanistan ...
The Overlooked Task of Promoting Good Governance
March 14, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
Building an efficient administration in Afghanistan has been one of the key objectives of the international community in the country. Hundreds of millions of aid dollars...
Trade in a Time of Protectionism
March 14, 2016 | Ranil Wickremesinghe
As China’s economy slows and growth in the developed world remains anemic, governments across Asia are working to keep their economies on an upward trajectory...
Seeking Peace Talk – A Futile or Fruitful Effort?
March 13, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The war and militancy continue unabated despite the peace discourse. Afghanistan, along with its political allies, seeks to bring the Taliban to negotiating table...
Countering the Menace of Terrorism
March 13, 2016 | Asmatyari and Delawar Sherzai
The discontent within Afghan people seems to be rising about the ongoing reconciliation process and prospects of peace and tranquility in the country. The people of...
The Electoral Reforms Still in Disarray
March 12, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
Despite the recent breakthrough in the electoral reforms stalemate, the process still seems to be stalled with the government failing to get the relevant authorities...
The Fear Factor in Global Markets
March 12, 2016 | Kenneth Rogoff
The phenomenal market volatility of the past year owes much to genuine risks and uncertainties about factors such as Chinese growth, European banks, and the oil glut...
The Long Way ahead for Women in Afghanistan
March 10, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
Afghanistan celebrated the International Women’s Day on Tuesday while the country’s overall performance in promotion of rights and status of women is considered...
Women Are Deemed Inferior
March 10, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
A group of feminists believe that women cannot get rid of sexual cruelties and atrocities by gradual changes and amendment. According to them, patriarchy is...
Europe’s Stillborn Security Strategy
March 09, 2016 | Ana Palacio
If a strategy is announced and nobody is around to listen, does it make a sound? The European Union will find out the answer this June, when Federica Mogherini, its High...
Radical Ideology!
March 09, 2016 | Ewaz Ali Bahrami
Do you not know that faith is the leading principle in all matters? For what husbandman can reap, unless he first trust his seed to the earth? Or who can cross the...
Afghan Civilians Suffer Insecurity
March 08, 2016 | Hujjatullah Zia
The unmitigated violence and bloodshed have inflicted heavy casualties upon our nation and the Taliban’s spring offensive increased the death toll over...
The New Interventionists
March 08, 2016 | Mark Leonard
The consequences of Russia’s intervention in Syria stretch far beyond the Middle East. The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favor of the...
A Literary Way of Looking at the World
March 07, 2016 | Dilawar Sherzai
There are different ways of looking at the life, world and the universe as whole. Some see in it a perfect harmony; others find chaos and disturbance. Some believe it to...
Equal Opportunity to Women Benefits All
March 07, 2016 | Annette Dixon
As we today mark UN Women’s Day, it is worth considering what the inequality between men and women costs South Asian countries and what can be done about it...
Russia’s Increasing Role in Afghanistan
March 06, 2016 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
With the security deteriorating and the four-way peace initiative finding momentum in Afghanistan, Russia’s role over the developments in the country has come under...