Editorial

Fierce fighting between Afghan National Security Forces and the Islamic State fighters (also known as Daesh) is underway in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province. As of Tuesday, around 37 Daesh terrorists, mostly from Pakistan, were killed and 44 others were injured. Fearing fall of the Kot district to Daesh, …

The parliamentary election has been delayed too much. Hopes for positive change of the voters were dashed not only by the government but their own elected representatives too. The voters wanted to change their fate while rejecting the corrupt and selfish members of the Wolesi Jirga in the coming parliamentary …

The Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Syria’s main opposition party engaged in the war with the Bashar al-Assad regime for the past five years, has expressed serious concerns over involvement of nearly 20,000 Afghans in the Syrian civil war. The SNC has brought the issue into the Afghan government’s notice several …

The law enforcement agencies are focused on elimination of the insurgent groups and garnering support of the international community. Most of the security policies revolve around defeat of the Taliban, Haqqani Network, al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Islamic State—popular as Daesh in the country. Such policies could not be termed …

Over three decades of conflict has inflicted large human and economic costs to Afghanistan. However, the human cost is much higher than the latter. There are large numbers of children who are deprived from love of parents. Either their fathers or mothers were killed in the never ending spiral of …

The media outlets especially the electronic media bring some changes in their routine programs and design special transmission on the holy religious days. The holy month of Ramadan, the Prophet’s (PBUH) birth anniversary and the 10th day of the holy month of Moharram (Imam Hussein’s martyrdom anniversary) are the very …

Children in Afghanistan are going through the most difficult time. Afghan children are facing more problems—of severe nature with no visible solution—than any other segment of the society. Most of them neither have access to quality health services nor education nor other basic facilities. They are the most unlucky when …

Regional stability is at stake as Pakistan has adopted aggressive policy towards Afghanistan while the United Nations failed to put pressure on Islamabad to cooperate with Kabul on key issues. The United Nations also failed to garner sincere support for the so-called Afghan-led peace process which had never been Afghan-owned …

Several innocent people lost their lives on Monday and scores were injured when the militants unleashed a new wave of terrorism and bloodshed. As many as 23 people were killed in Kabul and Badakhshan. Forced by poverty to work in Afghanistan, twelve Nepali security guards were among the killed. They …

Rejecting to take action against Afghan Taliban, the adviser to Pakistan’s premier on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that his country could not fight “Afghanistan’s war on its own soil”. In these days Islamabad is under crippling pressure from Washington because the former failed to target Haqqani Network, the Taliban …