Editorial

Soon after the US and the Taliban inked a monumental peace deal, the US President Donald Trump said his administration plans to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan immediately and would meet the Taliban in not too distant future. However, the president did remarkably note that if “bad things happen” that …

On the almost successful completion of a weeklong reduction in violence, American and Taliban negotiators finally arrived at the moment to ink an accord aimed at putting an end to 19 years of hostilities in Afghanistan. February 29 will go down in the history as a memorable day for the …

Among a myriad of other miseries, Afghans are also suffering from issues that stem from telecommunications and internet services. In this era of technological developments, telecoms and            internet services are indispensable resources across the globe. However, the telecom networks and the government here are extorting Afghans to the fullest, while …

The Afghan masses have become immensely tired of war and bloodshed. They wish nothing but peace in their motherland. The past decades of war took almost everything from them, but failed to bring down their morale for peace to eventually be restored. Once peace prevails, the Afghan masses – as …

The first case of the novel, fearsome coronavirus, officially named COVID-19 now, has been confirmed in the western Herat province of Afghanistan. The virus epidemic swiftly spread across the globe since it was first detected in China in late December and has since spread to more than 28 other countries, …

The aggravating post-election crisis in the wake of opposition to election results has left Afghans jaw-dropped and worried. The election conundrum is symbolic of the fact that Afghanistan is gradually being stripped off all the features characterizing a sovereign state as we are witnessing a bedlam across the country at …

Around four decades back, when former Afghan President, Dr. Mohammad Najibullah was on power and Soviet Union was backing his government, Afghanistan had been triggered into a civil war – at a time when the Soviet Union had left the country following a kind of similar withdrawal agreement – which …

With the long-awaited final returns of the controversy and fraud-mired 2019 Presidential Election out, the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani has been declared as the winner as he narrowly secured victory in the disputed count, amassing 50.64% of the vote. His rival, Abdullah Abdullah, has been announced as the runner-up by …

The Afghans have suffered multiple wars and invasions as they endured foreign actors fight for their own vested interests through the use of proxies over the years, resulting in a steady stream of refugees escaping violence and poverty to seek sanctuary in other lands. Given that the world, including the …

It’s been nearly five months but the fate of the last year’s presidential election hasn’t been determined yet. Dominantly marred by fraud and mired in controversies, the results of the September’s polls are still in the doldrums, rendering the future of Afghanistan in limbo. The current situation has also resulted …