Editorial

Battle-hardened soldiers of Afghanistan are seen as the bulwark against shenanigans and tomfooleries of the Taliban and the lynchpin to a millennial antiterrorism crusade. Our country is fragmented by protracted wars, domestic feuds, rudimentary communications and transport infrastructure, and a resulting rapidly augmenting public detachment. We are suffocating from escalating …

Afghanistan was hosting the first person of Pakistan on Friday who paid an official visit after he was invited by our president, a trip that the two sides have bunches of expectation from each other to normalize the delicate relations that has recently deteriorated. This is the first visit of …

Growing rate of sufficient access to quality health care is something to be celebrated widely because health is wealth. After the collapse of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan inherited a devastated health system and some of the worst health statistics in the world. After 2001, the darkest area of the Taliban …

Escalation of violence, carnage and insurgent attacks is now the stark inevitability. This year is proving to be yet another bloodiest year, as civilians in hundreds are slain in execution-style massacres, bombings, and sadly government interdiction operations. The situation is getting out of hands. The death toll of civilians is …

The issue of poising school girls still remained unresolved—in the past, Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for such incidents, in which several schoolgirls were hospitalized even in the capital city, Kabul. It was also created fear for students to go inside their classroom as the classes and water may have been …

Long-delayed parliamentary and district council elections has been planned for 20th October, almost three years past the expiry of the sitting parliament’s five-year mandate – despite major security and logistical challenges and amid pressure of increasingly impatient international partners and consecutive security brass promises to hold the elections prelude to …

A large number of Lashkargah residents started hunger strike in a desperate call for peace between the government and the Taliban group, demanding ceasefire instantly. At first, tens of women and men in southern Helmand province set up a sit-camp following a brazen car bombing outside a sports facility in …

A large number of Lashkargah residents started hunger strike in a desperate call for peace between the government and the Taliban group, demanding ceasefire instantly. At first, tens of women and men in southern Helmand province set up a sit-camp following a brazen car bombing outside a sports facility in …

The poor Taliban insurgents are in fragile economic situation as they seek for financial support from Russia. Russia’s envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov told journalists in Moscow that representatives of Russia and the Taliban scoffed at the allegations that Russia has been arming the militant group during their conversation, with …

Afghanistan is among a few countries where violence against journalists and other media adherents has been registered by the national and international media watchdogs having stirred a national indignation. In fact, many types of violence are threatening the people in the country from violence against women and children to other …