Editorial

Militancy and terrorism are the biggest and deadliest challenges to humanity in the current-day-world. Terrorism has been affecting the entire world, but the weaker nations are bearing the brunt. It becomes a painful moment when you find as a nation that your neighbor supports militancy on your soil. Often-times terrorists …

Poliovirus is a very serious threat to Afghanistan’s development as the country is miles away from getting the “polio free” status. Conflict that engulfs most parts of the country, anti-polio drives are constantly hampered by insecurity. Although, the health ministry in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched …

The country direly needs well-educated citizens to scale new heights of development. The three-decades plus wars and civil strife had barely left the infrastructure intact. What the country had in pre-1979 era has been bombed or burnt to the ground in the years of bloodbath. The Taliban hit the last …

The current security policy is worn-out, but those sitting in the power corridors are trying to blanket the blunders with statements and incorrect figures. Militants’ attack on police base in Musa Qala district of Helmand province which inflicted heavy casualties on police force is an indicator telling about worsening security …

While the Afghan peace process hasn’t reached a conclusion, Iran is successfully buying the Taliban’s loyalty. Being involved in multiple proxy wars to upset its arch-rival, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tehran has established close relations with the Afghan Taliban in order to use the group in proxy wars. A …

When it comes to militant attacks, governmental departments, security institutes, foreign missions, aid agencies, funerals, hotels and guesthouses are not alone. Education sector is also in the crosshair of anti-Afghanistan forces. Closure of schools, acquiring and exploitation of children for terrorism, attacks on teachers and now poisoning of students in …

It has been more than 13 years since fall of the Taliban’s regime, but the authorities have utterly failed in providing health care services to all citizens. This is more evident in remote parts of the country where most of the people live. Despite claims of the officials, access to …

Children are the most unfortunate segment of the society. Young boys and girls work on streets at the age which is supposed to be for playing and education. In addition to forced labor children are sexually exploited, used for begging, construction, crimes and in terror attacks. Both sophisticated organized crime …

Deadline for the parliamentary election is fast approaching, but the government is yet to device a mechanism to counter the delay or come up with a better solution. The Wolesi Jirga members would complete their term this June.  At the end of this month, the Wolesi Jirga will lose its …

As insecurity has been deteriorating across the country, the responsibility of maintaining security and law and order don’t remain only confined to the ministry of interior and the ministry of defense. There is yet another ministry as well whose role could be countable given that it is not spineless. The …