Editorial

As Afghanistan is already preoccupied with the two most predominant national issues of electoral crisis and the resumption of peace talks, targeted killings and crimes seem to have less importance for the government. However, they shouldn’t be treated like petty crimes but to the contrary should be prevented. A recent …

Indeed, restoration of peace will take time, but defiantly it will come. Any peace deal requires patient and hard work. Moreover, a step-by-step course to test bona fides, build confidence, reduce violence and encourage the difficult negotiations in which the Afghans themselves determine the political future of their country. Since …

Yesterday, 20 November was the World Children’s Day and it was celebrated in the world to protect to rights of children. The day was also marked in Afghanistan with the hope of better future for the suffering Afghan children. It is a fact that four decades of war, and especially …

In this modern era, Afghanistan still suffers from the scarcity of electricity – imported by the existing power utility from some Central Asian countries – which has proven inadequate to meet the needs of people in the whole country. Besides, it’s been years now that the Da Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat …

Amid the growing insecurity in Afghanistan with civilian casualties at its peak, there have been numerous reports of atrocities perpetrated by all sides into the conflict – namely the Afghan government, the US and the Taliban – against innocent Afghan people. Miserably, such war crimes go unpunished almost all the …

Being a fate-deciding exercise for Afghanistan, the election process has been unfortunately mired in controversy so far. Already behind schedule by weeks in terms of results, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) first began the much-awaited, yet disputed, vote recount on November 9 amid staunch bickering from some candidates regarding ‘shady …

In the run-up to the third round of the intra-Afghan talks to be reportedly held on November 21 in China’s capital city of Beijing, the national unity government has took a huge political risk as it announced the release a leader of the Taliban’s Haqqani militant faction and two other …

Air quality levels have worsened in Afghanistan, creating public outcry with dire consequences for large swaths of society. The extreme air pollution episodes affect millions of people in Kabul; the authorities must take every available step to tackle air pollution in Kabul, the capital city, which may be even deadlier …

Against a backdrop of inordinate delays in the tallying process on the part of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), it has set back the announcement of presidential poll result for a second time. Citing candidate complaints and tensions, the electoral management body also stopped the audit and recount of votes …

The government of Afghanistan has decided to release Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid, three Haqqani Network commanders in exchange for the release of Kevin King, an American and Timothy Weeks, an Australian lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan who were kidnapped in 2016. It is unclear …