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Europe and Anti-Europe
June 01, 2014 | Harold James
The European Parliament election has set off a painful process of rethinking not only how the European Union works, but also what it is fundamentally about. The outcome made it clear ...
Let’s Wake up
May 31, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
In the dark days of barbarity, people were in deep hibernation. Their lifeless society would fill one with great disappointment. Violence and bloodshed were their daily practices. Their life was empty of human dignity and moral ...
Continuous Elections Guarantee Strong Democracy
May 31, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
Man has always been in the continuous process of improving their social and political lives. Man has left behind the age of insecurity of caves and hunting era; he has evolved from aristocracy ...
Mini Dictators of Afghanistan
May 31, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
It was a gathering of a large number of important people. The presence of some very rich traders, some top government officials, a couple of parliamentarians, high-ranking military officers ...
Why our Daily Endevours Suffer Distortions?
May 29, 2014 | Asmatyari
General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles ...
High Level of Corruption
May 29, 2014 | Masood Korosh
These days there are worrying news about the level of corruption in Afghanistan but overshadowed by increasing heated presidential election campaign. It looks that everyone is waiting ...
Religion – A Crying Need for Our Age
May 28, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
“Muhammad (PBUH) is no more than a Messenger and indeed (many) Messengers have passed away before him. If he dies or is slain, will you then turn back on your heels (as disbelievers)? And he who turn back on his heels ...
From Candle to Candle
May 28, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
In old times, when there was no commercialism and teachers taught students for the sole purpose of service and when this profession was not the mean of their livelihood, the blessings ...
Despite Criticisms Government Did well During Presidential Election
May 28, 2014 | Masood Korosh
As the campaign for the second round of the presidential election kicked off on Thursday, both forerunner presidential candidates, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah who gained 45 percent of total ...
Citizenship from Historical Perspective
May 27, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
According to many thinkers, the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, albeit others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years ...
Can Poverty be Alleviated?
May 27, 2014 | Asmatyari
The decades of prevalent conflict and war in Afghanistan shambled everything, ranging from infrastructural to socio-political downfall, reasonless bloodshed followed by enormous people ...
Time to Direct an Arrow of Reforms at the Region's Development Institutions
May 27, 2014 | Curtis S. Chin & Meera Kumar
South and Southeast Asia, along with broader issues of development, change and the policy challenges facing the world, were very much topics for debate here on America's Pacific Coast earlier ...
Youth and a False Concept
May 26, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
It was an end of the term party arranged by the students themselves. Like all the language institutes, a new level or class finished after every four months and it was a tradition that a party was arranged ...
Muhammad (PBUH) – The Last of the Prophets
May 26, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Based on Islamic beliefs, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the last messenger of Allah and divine revelation was finalized with his demise. Moreover, it is believed that all the divine messages ...
Politicians must not Disappoint People
May 25, 2014 | Masood Korosh
On Thursday, May 22, the second round of presidential election formally kicked off. The two presidential candidates who gained the largest percentage of votes to test the level of their popularity among people through ...
Secularizing Religion
May 25, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Historically, religions have passed a tortuous path all around the human societies. Religions were given birth in the heart of superstitions, violence and barbarity, survived perilous ideologies ...
Hezbollah A Clear Winner In Syrian Conflict
May 25, 2014 | Manish Rai
While the civil war in Syria remains a grinding battle of attrition, for Hezbollah more than a year of combat has produced a new sense of purpose that extends beyond battling Israel to supporting ...
A Sleeping Dose
May 24, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
This was the third or fourth occasion that I read something similar and I thought for a while as how a common sense might come to digest it. References change, fields change and the authors change but themes ...
The World of the Superstitions
May 24, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Superstation is a belief whose origin is unknown in most cases and has no scientific or reasonable foundation. This is a belief that over time is taken as truth for those who are privy to it through their culture ...
Lifesaving Convictions
May 24, 2014 | Dagfinn Høybråten
The plight of more than 200 girls abducted in northern Nigeria is a brutal reminder of just how vulnerable children in Africa – particularly girls – can be. But it is equally important to recognize ...
Both Countries are the Victims to Fundamentalists
May 22, 2014 | Masood Korosh
If you ask me whether Afghanistan is the main victim of terrorism or Pakistan, I really hesitate to say Afghanistan. However, Afghan people are nowadays defenseless against direct and indirect terroristic activities ...
Putting Oneself At Test is Odd
May 22, 2014 | Asmatyari
It is an obsolete discernment that if one attributes his mistakes to others and don’t accept them as his own. The person always thinks that it is always the other person who is the reason ...
Baba Ghulam Faruq Killed Ruthlessly
May 22, 2014 | Greg Mortenson
With a heavy heart, I write to inform you that Ghulam Faruq, headmaster of Central Asia Institute (CAI Saw Village School in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, was killed by militants ...
Life with a Purpose
May 21, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
Life is one of the greatest gifts of nature; in fact, it resembles a miracle. It can only be found on our planet earth within the known universe. The conditions that have made the ...
I Am Perfect From All Regards!
May 21, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
A movie shows a very interesting personality that is rare but definitely found in every society. The lady is very rich and she owns a very successful business. She is herself very competent ...
Democracy – The Lifeblood of a Society
May 21, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
In our age, democracy, which encompasses social, cultural, religious, and ethnic equality, justice and liberty, is the lifeblood of a society. Democracy contrasts with forms of ...
Religion – Prophet’s Subjective and Objective Experience
May 20, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Think of a monk who lives in a monastery or in a cave. He will be free from social dilemma and untouched by societal incidents. He will neither be concerned about the tragic aspect of life going ...
How to Put an End to Terrorism?
May 20, 2014 | Asmatyari
At present the one gravest problem the world faces is terrorism. It has become a headache for federation and a nightmare for public. Though, it is a global issue, but Afghanistan ...
Syrian Crisis Does not Bear Sectarian Characteristics
May 20, 2014 | Masood Korosh
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights whose report about Syria become the reference of credible newspapers said that it had documented 162.402 deaths since the start of uprising ...
The Miracles of Iron Will
May 19, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
It can be observed that there is no match between water and a stone as far as the rigidness and solidity is concerned. The stone is firm and not easily breakable while the water is liquid and flows softly. If a person has to break ...
Liberalism – The Intellectual Basis of Democracy
May 19, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Liberalism supports individual freedom. It has promoted the law and private property, with free exchange of goods and ideas. Liberalism, as the name implies, is a broadminded belief ...
The Monster of Unemployment!
May 19, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
I was in a restaurant at the bus terminal of Kandahar, waiting for the bus. Buses to Kabul leave Kandahar almost after midnight and people wait for the bus in the restaurants at the bus terminal ...
Traditional Power-play is on Decline
May 18, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Both the two front runners of presidential election announced their preparation to go for the second round of the election. It is really so kind of them that they finally accepted the result of the election which has kept ...
Am I What I Look Like?
May 18, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
One is not what s/he looks like. To have a human body or to walk uprightly on the street does not mean to be human. Walking and talking only show your appearance not your personality ...
The Real Security Threat!
May 17, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
With the arrival of summer, the activities of Taliban have considerably increased and so is the insecurity in Kabul and all other cities and towns of the country. This is not something unusual and unexpected. Every ...