Editorial

Since decades, Afghanistan has been famed as a museum of variant ethnicities. This nation has been in the fell clutch of increasingly oddly unpredictable circumstances. There was a time when Khorasan was a territory that prided itself on its rich and diverse culture. But what had happened to have inadvertently …

The era of peace opportunity has been unfold in such a mass way that everyone is looking optimistic. The twice call of the Taliban insurgents for peace talks, though not with Afghan government, but with US, even further created atmosphere, in which possibility of peace talks is getting more visible …

Interim government of the erstwhile president and then his successors have incessantly desperately sought out due attention of the world community to internal predicaments of Afghanistan. The desperation has been unraveled in various formats – one being an international conference of peace cooperation to echo the major problems and contemplate …

In 2014 when the international coalition had an exit strategy in mind, many feared its terrible ramifications. Obviously, as the U.S. started evacuating its soldiers and replacing them with military advisors, the entire security responsibility fell on fledgling Afghan forces – whose military performance has been dazzling so far. In …

Inclined to reconcile with radical Taliban outfits and bring a cessation to the stretching scourge of militancy, Afghanistan has long been pursuing all the possible ways. But reconciliation appears to be a delusion in the face of the inaction of Afghanistan’s much-touted High Peace Council. The pompous council was established …

Summary executions, disappearances and mass killings have occurred throughout all phases of Afghanistan’s conflict over the past few decades. There may be hundreds of mass graves in Afghanistan – not only those from the civil war in the 1990s, but also those unearthing the atrocities of cruel ISIS hooligans. Stark …

Afghanistan has been in a sticky wicket ever since peace parleys with the Taliban insurgents had stalled in Qatar. The militant group has been at loggerheads with the worldwide proposition to sit down and talk about how to bridge the chasm. However a new era might unfold in the sphere …

Afghans are sanguine about prospects for the trans-Afghanistan pipeline, in spite of the economic tantrum and paltry investments in mega projects. Implementing an ambitious natural gas pipeline touted as ‘Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India’ or TAPI project will have a two-sided corollary; generating jobs for Afghans, and strengthening amity amongst the three South Asian …

In the wake of the unfettered political disarray, the Afghan unity government has found itself in a bind that could only be circumvented if a ‘paradigmatic politic of compromise and negotiation diplomacy’ is concocted; defiance against the government’s writ has taken a whole new shape to itself ever since a …

In the wake of spate of political disorders in the country, the National Unity Government needs to embark an unflinching scheme to find wise solutions to the ongoing turmoil. Any sorts of issue creating headache to the government must be deterred. But does it simple to bring political orders? It …