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The Enigma of Daesh’s Presence in Afghanistan
April 27, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
With the Islamic State groups or Daesh claiming a major militant attack in Afghanistan, a fundamental question is now hovering in minds: does the Islamic State group currently have ...
Education – A Panacea for Afghan Women
April 27, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
“I don’t know why I suffer so much humiliation in my house. Honestly speaking, my mother has no compassion for me. During the last years of my childhood, she never allowed me to ...
The Problem Lies inside the House!
April 26, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
The revelations of the governor of Paktika may be somehow shocking but they are not new of their kind. Almost a week ago, the said governor accused the National Security Advisor of ...
Afghanistan-Iran Relations: The Needs and Challenges
April 26, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
During President Ghani’s recent visit to Tehran, Afghan and Iranian presidents stressed on their will for starting a new chapter in relations between the two countries and stepping up ...
Yemen Conflict; Negotiations is the only option!
April 25, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
The situation in Yemen is getting complicated like the situation in Syria and it is going to be one of the conflicts that are going to exhaust the resources of the region. Although ...
Will I Survive for Ever?
April 25, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
Do you think that decapitating a number of men in cold blood is a movie’s denouement? What about the bitter tears rolling down a woman’s cheeks for ...
Avoiding Iraq’s Mistakes for Afghanistan!
April 23, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Recent developments in Iraq are frightening and disappointing for all those who were looking for a stable and prosperous Iraq after all the efforts and sacrifices of International community ...
Women’s Deepening Plight Reported
April 23, 2015 | Asmatyari
Dauntlessness is not man’s attribute, given he can suppress and duress the hapless daughter of eve –despite being reciprocated in the gentlest way. This is not to render man at ...
A Contemplation on the Development Obstacles in Afghanistan
April 22, 2015 | Mustafa Nasiri
Why USA and Canada improved and the Latin American countries remained backward? How did the Great Britain develop? Why and how did Western Europe develop rapidly while others lagged ...
A Decade of Counter-terrorism Fails
April 22, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
The macabre stories of violence and carnage fill our bleeding nation with a great sense of anguish and disappointment. The recent police and civilian casualties in Badakhshan and Jalalabad ...
A Major Success for the Unity Government
April 21, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
The approval of 16 cabinet nominees by the Wolesi Jirga on Saturday came as a major development ending months of administrative and leadership uncertainty in the government. All ...
Improvement in US-Cuba Ties!
April 21, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Having realized the mistakes and horrible outcomes of mistakes by Bush administration, much was expected of Barack Obama but unfortunately, he was not able to bring much evident ...
Afghan-Style Democracy
April 20, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
Do we live under a democratic system? The irony is that democracy means violence and bloodshed inflicted upon a nation. Afghans struggle to survive suicide bombings, abduction and ...
The Final Push to End Extreme Poverty
April 20, 2015 | Jim Yong Kim
2015 is the most important year for global development in recent memory. In July, world leaders will gather in Addis Ababa to discuss how to finance development priorities in the years ...
A New Era of China-Afghanistan Relations
April 19, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
With China’s explicit interest in helping Afghanistan’s peace efforts, officials and analysts in Afghanistan are heralding a new era in relations between Kabul ...
Why Should We Help Afghanistan?
April 19, 2015 | Steven Kwon, Ph.D
Nutrition & Education International (NEI) started working in Afghanistan since 2003 and has committed another 10 years to the eradication of malnutrition in Afghanistan through ...
Grand Corruptions Plagued Our Institutions!!
April 18, 2015 | Asmatyari
Afghanistan suffers the most at the hands of prolonged war. The more than three decades of war have earned nothing except ruins, countless miseries and devastation for poor masses. The ...
The Oozing Blood and Heartrending Sobs are none of My Business
April 18, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
“I took no notice when I heard some horrible voices, when I saw the house beside me was burning, when I found the people struggling hard to stop the fire. I took no notice for ...
The New Chapter for Peace Talks with the Taliban
April 16, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
During his thirteen years of ruling Afghanistan, former president Hamid Karzai spared no efforts to bring Taliban leaders to table of peace negotiations. But he failed in ...
Decade Long War Earned Multiplying Causalities!
April 16, 2015 | Asmatyari
As the spring drew nearer amidst the rumors of peace talk, the magnitude of violence and insecurity practically soared. The consecutive attacks on public officials depict either ...
Accelerating Building of the Belt and Road, Forging China-Afghanistan Community of Common Destiny
April 15, 2015 | Deng Xijun
In September and October of 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the initiatives of jointly building a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road ...
Badakhshan Tragedy Demands Serious Follow-up!
April 15, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
The tragic incident of Badakhshan finally unveiled so many sensitive issues that were kept forbidden and out of the reach of public discussion. The nation as a whole admires the ...
The Causes of Violence against Afghan Women
April 14, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
In Afghanistan, women are the most vulnerable segment of the society. For decades, they have suffered from violence, deprivation and misbehaviors stemmed from wars and the dominant ...
Child Upbringing and True Understanding!
April 14, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
As a part of increasing coordination with parents and establishing good relations with them for the sake of betterment of children, teachers once or twice visited the homes or offices ...
Release of 31 Abductees; A Test Case for Afghan Forces
April 13, 2015 | Asmatyari
“A man uniformed black holding a sharp edge dagger and firearm positions behind a captive man who is interrogated in Dari language, is beheaded later”, shown in the video ...
Indirect Share in Crime and Genocide!
April 13, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Many years before, when the brutality of militants was not as widespread, there were only Al-Qaeda and Taliban in the arena, and their worst shape in the form of ISIS had not yet emerged, I ...
Growing Insecurity Pleads Prior Attention
April 12, 2015 | Asmatyari
Man suffers, not only when the part of the world in which he is residing is hit by natural calamities like earthquakes, famines, floods, diseases, etc., but occasionally also at the ...
Human Rights at Low Ebb in Afghanistan
April 12, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
To view historically, the modern sense of human rights can be traced to Renaissance Europe and the Protestant Reformation, alongside the disappearance of the feudal authoritarianism and ...
What the Taliban Say by Releasing Mullah Omar Biography
April 11, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
In an unprecedented move, the Taliban released biography of their Supreme Leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, last Sunday. In the biography, the group asserts that the Mullah Omar is still in ...
A Sad Joke!
April 11, 2015 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
This interesting conversation happened many years ago. After the democracy was established and country became stable, a person opened a school. He had left his established school in ...
Access to Information Law Needs Apt Implementation and Regulation
April 09, 2015 | Asmatyari
One of the basic values and principles governing public administration is transparency. Every system of governance requires well-learned citizens, who are known of most if not all ...
The Twin Sisters: Woman and Anguish
April 09, 2015 | Hujjatullah Zia
What a mother suffers from, a daughter tends to repeat while upbringing her children, leaving the girls from one generation after the next, deprived of their rights – particularly the ...
On World Health Day
April 08, 2015 | Dilawar Sherzai
7th April is celebrated as World Health Day internationally so as to highlight the challenges and opportunities that are associated health under the sponsorship of World Health ...
The Importance of Agriculture Sector
April 08, 2015 | Mustafa Nasiri
According to Jerzy W. (2013), agriculture is that kind of activity which joins labour, land or soil, live animals, plants, solar energy and so on; the Minister of Agriculture is the ...
The Wolesi Jirga’s Performance under Spotlight
April 07, 2015 | Abdul Ahad Bahrami
With the Wolesi Jirga set to vote on the remaining members of unity government cabinet, the long and controversial process of cabinet formation is closing to its end. According to the ...