Editorial

Miracles seldom take place in the power corridors of Kabul, the recent statement of President Ashraf Ghani about the Wolesi Jirga and the district council elections could augur well for the nation if national consensus was built. The government’s will to hold the elections this year could be a forerunner …

Afghan soccer team had registered landmark victory in the semi-final of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup Championship while hammering Sri Lanka. Afghanistan is all set to repeat the previous edition’s final with the time-tested friend India. After beating Sri Lanka with 5-0 the Afghan team to face India in …

Russia is more prominent in Afghanistan’s history than any other nation-state. Proximity and relations of the two countries dominate the contemporary history. Once upon a time, Moscow was a good friend and then became a villain and now again mending ties. In politics, yesterday’s enemy is today’s friend because politics …

The Reporters Without Borders, a watchdog, reported on Tuesday that this year 110 journalists were killed in the line of duty.  Since 2005, as many as 787 journalists were killed in the world. Unfortunately, the killers enjoy impunity in most of the cases. Justice has not been provided to the …

The United States as so-called global leader on war against terrorism is clueless on how to end the Afghan war without losing the gains that she had made. She cannot afford abandoning Afghanistan in such a murky and uncertain situation because the fears are high that the Taliban and other …

Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) has claimed that the country would become self-sufficient in wheat production by 2020. The deputy minister of agriculture Mir Amanuddin Haidari said that the ministry has drafted a strategy for grain production to meet the demand side. The draft strategy has been sent …

Since times immemorial, Afghans and Indians have welcomed each other with open arms. The two nations are bonded together in common culture, history and interests. Both nations have more than a nodding acquaintance about the misfortunes that unleashed foreign aggression and violence and kept them struggling for territorial integrity and …

Russia’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that his country was sharing intelligence about Daesh with the Taliban insurgents. The diplomat believes that it would help Moscow to clip growing wings of the global terror group which is also known as the Islamic State. According to Kabulov …

The UN Security Council has extended sanctions regime against the Afghan Taliban and other affiliate insurgent groups. The resolution was passed unanimously by the UN Security Council. But, the council also decided to exempt travel ban on a “case-by-case” basis in order to facilitate the Afghan-owned peace process. The ball …

If the history of the National Unity Government is written properly, some steps and reputations of the government are going to be badly bruised. There would not be a single chapter about good statesmanship. Most of the story will be about the blunders in which the authorities have graduated now. …