Editorial

Just when the whole world was expecting an imminent peace deal between the US and the Taliban negotiators last month, the speedy momentum of the Afghan peace process perished as the US President Donald Trump announced the talks as ‘dead’, citing the perpetuating violence by the Taliban, whose attack killed …

With about a week remaining for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the preliminary results – scheduled for October 19 – of last month’s presidential election, the atmosphere of uncertainty is skyrocketing. There are constant claims of fraud since the day the vote was conducted as almost all of …

Based on recent reports, Pakistani police have evicted 180 Afghans while beating them from a market located in Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Afghans, who had been in possession of the outlets for decades, were evicted supposedly in compliance with a verdict of the Peshawar High Court (PHC). The Firdous …

Despite pulling off a safer presidential election than expected, Afghanistan’s 28th polls are scrambling with legitimacy issue due to low turnout, in which the two front-runners already claimed victory before ballots are tallied and signaling they would not accept defeat. Election officials have hailed the recent election as the “most …

The right of access to information is essentially the lifeblood of an informed citizenry because otherwise, in the absence of information, people remain in dark and unaware regarding their government’s performance. Afghanistan has made considerable progress since the Access to Information (ATI) Law was approved by the president in 2014 …

It has become so much commonplace in Afghanistan to see the spiral of violence tenaciously take its toll on innocent Afghans, especially children, for more than four decades. A recent report by a UK-based children’s rights organization, Save the Children, has revealed that every single child born and raised in …

It wasn’t long after the Twitter duel between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman, Sibghatullah Ahmadi, and the Presidential Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi when reports emerged that Ahmadi has been relieved of his post over his latest “irresponsible comments.” The former spokesman bickered with Sidiqi over the warm welcome and protocol …

The US-Taliban talks officially came to a halt in early September when the US President Donald Trump stunned the world when he suddenly declared the Afghan negotiations with the Taliban “dead”.  Since the peace talks arrived at a stop, the preparations for the presidential election had been at full throttle …

The Taliban group—who repeatedly rejected to shun violence, or sit in talks with Afghan fellows, may call Saturday’s Afghan election a foreign process, alike some candidates who have full doubts over transparency of the process, but a majority of the country’s young population is already used to democracy. Over 2.5 …

Fighting continues in the 18-year-old Afghanistan war while peace remains elusive ever since the US earlier in September withdrew from a year-long series of talks with the Taliban whose main component was sealing a truce – which the parties into conflict failed to agree upon. With the Saturday’s election which …