Editorial

The ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is like a grey picture projecting the failure and success of all the engaged parties where there is no winner till now. All and sundry is trying to appear as a rational actor, and making efforts to drive the situation in their interests—no matter even …

President Ashraf Ghani endorsed the draft amendment in the article 6 of the population registration act that allows the words ‘Afghan’ and the ‘ethnicity’ in the new identification cards supposed to be distributed. The article had turned to a controversy over the distribution of the computerized identification cards which caused …

Vaccination is one of the efficient and cost-effective interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity among children under-five year age. The two drops of polio is very much important to put off from the fatality and disability caused by vaccine preventable diseases. Covering all children under-5 is one of the key …

All forms of tortures are illegal and contrary to human dignity and their basic rights under the Convention Against Torture which Afghanistan acceded in 1987. Unfortunately, the ugly practice of torture is still exists in the different enforcement and judicial organizations. These organizations are using torture as its tools against …

Sometimes the feeling of having six neighbors lead us toward optimism, and cheerfully transport feelings of joys and happiness that Afghanistan would never face problem in every areas, especially in transit routes because we are rich in neighbors. At the same time when looking at the current juncture, we dishearten …

The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANSDF) have never been traumatized at stamping out terrorism in the war-hit country. Though terrorism is a global threat, but the Afghans and security forces are at the frontline of the war on terror. Without doubt, Afghan security forces engaged in an unclear …

There is no place in Afghanistan where the Taliban and other militant outfits did no target, and it has been for years that these groups have been engaged in devastation course. The militants have committed numerous of big crimes against the Afghan masses, and still putting no step toward backward. …

All set to criminalize the evil practice of “Bachabazi”—sexual exploitation of young boys who are forced to dress up like girls, and women, with a scenery penalties to those involved in the heinous act. The “play boy” at somehow become a subculture in the country, and the poor children have …

Hundreds of people from the political activists, members of civil society and other Kabul citizens gathered Friday to protest rocket firing by Pakistani army on the eastern areas of Afghanistan. The protesters demanded immediate stop of the shelling which has been reportedly targeting villages in the provinces of Nangarhar and …

The agreement of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is now closer to a reality. Energy starving India and Pakistan have joined hands with Afghanistan and struck a deal with Turkmenistan to build a gas pipeline at a cost of $10b. The project was signed in 2016. President Ashraf Ghani in …