Editorial

Violence against women and girls in Afghanistan, including so called honor killing, and other forms of violent behavior like forced marriages, preventing them from education, too often goes unpunished. If the culprits apprehended, again proper trial will not happen because the victims over and over again pressured into agreeing to …

The Taliban, a group the Afghan government is seeking peace with, has some other demands suggested in the US-Taliban peace deal signed in late February last year. It has been disclosed by US Chargé d’Affaires Ross Wilson. The Taliban is expecting the release of thousands of their prisoners under their …

Are we getting closer to the peace in our beloved country? Passing any optimistic views, it is important to realize that as long as we have conflicting interests, there will be no peace. Unfortunately, as long as there are fundamentally clashing ideologies, peace would be a distant dream. But we …

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a veteran politician and current Chairman of High Council for National Reconciliation, is under harsh criticisms over his failure to form reconciliation council. It has been for over one year that this body is yet to be completed. The essential task of this body is to provide …

Condemning the crimes that inflicted casualties on innocent Afghans is not the only way to the justice and fairness, but indeed, it needs the true acts of prosecution of those committed such crimes for sake of justice. A bombshell report revealed that the Australian Special Forces in the southern part …

Afghanistan is in a crucial moment as peace delegations from both sides are scrambling to iron out differences in terms of strategy, perspective and approach. They are yet to clear disparity on the agendas to kick-start intra-Afghan talks. We have suffered the most from over 40 decades of war, and …

Women who make up half of the human being’s population and play key roles in different sections of social life from family to educational institutions, healthcare services, politics and even military and police, deserve equal privileges and rights with men. This is a matter that everyone says and accepts verbally …

Nearly two decades after a US-led military campaign toppled the Taliban regime for hosting al-Qaeda, the ultra-radical Islamic State (IS), also known as Daesh extremist group is a major threat with launching attacks inside and outside the country. Taliban are also yet to be demolished completely, rather the US signed …

Since the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001, the international community’s financial support has been the bedrock of progress in Afghanistan, with tangible impacts in the lives of millions of war-hit Afghans. Sans multi-donor countries support, including the World Bank’s International Development Association, the fragile development at the status …

Indeed, children like buds in a garden and should be carefully lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow. In Afghanistan, the gardens of the future are at stake and suffering on a daily basis from ongoing conflict. Decades of war have had …