Editorial

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 …

For Pakistan, Afghanistan is a gadfly. For Afghanistan, Pakistan is a terrorist camp. For the United States both are allies in the international war on terror. But how the US treats the two is part of our contemporary history. When the one commits atrocities and kills Americans in Afghanistan it …

There is a ubiquitous pessimism regarding the performance of the National Unity Government. This ubiquity is validated by a survey carried out by a private news channel TOLOnews. A survey titled: Do you think your standard of living has improved under the National Unity Government, which has three options have …

Once again the Taliban unleashed the floodgates of terror. Once again the nation witnessed the bloodbath. The coldblooded Taliban, the merchants of hatred and bloodshed, killed at least 19 members of Afghan Local Police (ALP) and two civilians in the northwestern Faryab province. Yes, Faryab, a province that made headlines …

The death of Mullah Omar, the figurehead of the Taliban, who led the Taliban movement since 1994 and the sporadic attacks in Kabul in recent weeks dashed the hopes for peace talks to ground. Now every second brain that is concerned with peace, thinks that is peace possible given the …

The international community has nudged Kabul to resume talks with the Taliban in such a time when Kabul has taken a serious swipe at Pakistan for sheltering them and sending messages of war to Afghanistan. Though Kabul needs peace dialogues with the militants, but not at such a higher cost …

Once again the Taliban showed their real face—the darker and barbaric face. They have gone so much insane and bloodthirsty that they even set the houses of civilians on fire. Even though the civilians in no way were connected to the government. These barbaric Taliban even beat to a pregnant …