Editorial

Amid the horrors of war, the United States has overlooked Afghanistan by pulling out its troops. And the fallout is visible all around. This continues to be a year of tumult and heavy violence across the country, where both, civilians and troops are suffering unprecedented casualties. In the first half …

Since the death reports of Mullah Omar hogged headlines, the Taliban movement has been plagued by turf war and blame game. Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the self-claimed successor of Mullah Omar, has become the most controversial figurehead as he is not only dubbed as the errand boy of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, …

Insecurity has been steadily on the hike. Highways and roads are getting insecure. There has been a sharp increase in kidnappings on almost all major roads. Though roads are being built, distances are shrinking, provinces and districts are connecting, which play a vital role in the increased trade and business …

All hell breaks loose when Afghans hear that the Durand Line is an international border. It has just been a line and not a border as its name suggests. Foreigners believe it or not, it does not matter for Afghans.  Then who the hell is the United States to intrude …

Late Ahmad Shah Massoud’s 14th death anniversary was marked Wednesday. Almost all the key political leaders and elders expressed their views on this day. The takeaways of this day were that Pakistan wants a weaker Afghanistan and a puppet government. We don’t have any decision-making institution.  The brain-drain is a …

Like other South Asian countries, Afghanistan has been mired in the extreme vicious circle of poverty and widening urban-rural disparities. Over 60 percent people live below the poverty line. Half of them barely manage to eke out a living. A large number of people have started taking the road to …

Whatever were its outcomes and purposes but everyone now confirm that in the recent past the soil of Afghanistan in general and Pashtuns in particular remains the battlefield of at least three universal wars. The first one was fought by the US-led allies against the former Soviet Union. The second …

Good governance matters a lot. It matters because the country is mired in an endemic corruption. It matters because the government ministries are failing to utilize their budgets for hundreds of infrastructure projects. From land grabbing to the plunder of natural resources, from the pillage of national wealth to corruption …

For nearly 10 months, President Ashraf Ghani and his Chief Executive Abdullah remained at loggerheads over making up of the electoral reform commission. Now that it has been formed yet there is a new issue. This commission has submitted a list of proposals to the President and the Chief Executive, …

Diplomacy has failed. Talks with the Taliban have failed. The national unity government despite keeping all the eggs just in one basket, failed to friend Pakistan. When Afghanistan was dreaming about increasing its love affairs with Pakistan the latter was preparing its troops and an entire sub-tribe of the tribal …