Editorial

With security in ebbs and flows, the extraordinary precautions had taken during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visit to Afghanistan for a few hours on Monday. He held meetings with Afghan leaders, went to Bagram Air Base and snapshot with US staffers at the embassy. Honestly, spending a couple of …

Attention for providing an educational environment for the schoolchildren has gained impetus ever before, especially in rural areas where the parents drawing attention to the value of education. Education is key to success, a light to end darkness, and a weapon to demolish poverty. Still we don’t have remarkable success …

Election is the principal pillar of democracy with which citizens of a democratic nation practice their franchise and throw themselves into their fate. In the wake of the overthrow of the Taliban and the institutionalization of democracy, Afghanistan too became a pro-democratic country, with a pyramid of shortcomings though. Elections …

A major challenge for the Afghan peace process will be successfully reintegrating of Taliban members, who are taking command from their leaders sitting abroad. It’s a fact when combatants of a group shun fighting, it could derail prospects from fighting with the immediate end of conflict. The High Peace Council …

The presidential special guard convoy hit a young girl during President Ashraf Ghani’s Monday visit to the eastern province of Laghman. Salma, 13, was selling yogurt in Mehterlam city, the provincial capital when she was hit by the president’s over-speed convoy. Her relatives have said that she was the only …

A rally turned into violent in Maimana city, provincial capital of northern Faryab province. Extremely distraught over detention of Nizamuddin Qaisari, a close ally of Fist Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum and police chief of Qaisar district, a large number of his supporters took out to the streets, demanding …

Anti-polio drives have begun. The Ministry of Public Health recently announced the launch of a campaign to administer polio vaccines to children countrywide, amid fears anti-polio workers may not reach out to over one million children due to widespread unrest. But a very shocking fact has revealed and that is …

Afghanistan had been a nonaggressive, nonviolent, pro-democratic, multiracial and a calm nation and the world was at awe of it. That is history now. Now that calm country is no longer at peace. The country is now war-shattered, conflict-stricken, and politically, economically and socially challenged – where the political atmosphere …

In the past three decades, close to 99 percent of Hindu and Sikh citizens of Afghanistan have left the country. An investigation by TOLOnews reveals that the Sikh and Hindu population number was 220,000 in the 1980’s. That number dropped sharply to 15,000 when the mujahideen took power during the …

The unilateral ceasefire that lasted for 18 days ended. But anytime could be resumed. President Ashraf Ghani already said he was ready to extend the ceasefire anytime when the Taliban are ready. Offensive operations took up again on Saturday after Ghani called off truce with the Taliban. There was much …