AT Kabul: Today in Dand region of Kandahar province, a person killed his three children due to poverty and inability to find bread to their family. Hearing this news is really heart-wrenching and burns a person to the bone marrow, and this is completely amazed how a father can …
Read More »Less than 1 percent of Britain’s people voted on the new prime minister
By Megan Specia The New York Times It may come as a surprise, particularly to those less familiar with parliamentary systems of government, that the decision on Britain’s new leader has been made by just a small (and not very representative) fraction of the country’s 67 million people. Around 160,000 …
Read More »Games Taliban play: Why India must engage in Afghanistan
Anand K Sahay AT Kabul: The recent killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawhiri in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, at an address evidently linked to Taliban interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, is very bad optics for the regime. It raises complex questions about the Taliban, and requires us to ponder …
Read More »US correct its mistakes in Afghanistan
AT Kabul: In an inrerwive with NPR, Former Prisedent Hamid Karzai calls on the United States government to atone for its mistakes in Afghanistan and help Afghan nation during these hard times.When the Taliban captured Kabul last August, the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled …
Read More »The death of the CIA spy who sent to get Osama Bin Laden
Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC AT Kabul: On 19 September, 2001 – with the ruins of the World Trade Center and Pentagon still smoldering from the 9/11 attacks – CIA officer Gary Schroen stepped into his boss’s office and received a set of orders: “Capture Bin Laden, kill him, and bring …
Read More »Uncertainty shrouds Afghanistan’s future
By: Shoaib Shirzai Afghanistan went through its worst during past several years with dramatic political changes since 2014 that cast a shadow on future of Afghan people. The most challenging of them all was the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan after which the Taliban took over Afghanistan. The pullout …
Read More »A glimpse of past two decades in Afghanistan
After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001 and establishment of a republic government in Afghanistan, many people received the change with much euphoria as they were liberated from years of persecution and finally achieved freedom.
Read More »India’s Return to a Key role in Kabul: Ticklish Issue Emerges
NOTE: SOME OF THE SENSITIVE POINTS WITHIN THIS ARTICLE HAVE BEEN ADJUSTED; PLUS, THIS IS AN OPINION PIECE AND IS CONSIST OF THE WRITER’S PERSONAL VIEW. By Anand K. Sahay Since then, pursuant to an internal debate, India is thought to be seriously considering restoring its representation in the Afghan …
Read More »Karzai condemns Imran Khan’s ‘divisive’ remarks
AT News KABUL: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday lashed out at Pakistani Prime Minister for attempting an “obvious propaganda against Afghanistan”. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his speech at the summit of Organization of Islamic Countries on Sunday in Islamabad said that Pakistan faced threat from Islamic …
Read More »Afrasiab Khattak: World turns back to Afghanistan
AT News KABUL: A senior Pashton politician of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has expressed concerns over the current chaos in Afghanistan, saying that the world turned its back to this war-torn country. Afrasiab Khattak, a former senator and top Pashton politician in a video message said that “A grave tragedy is happening in …
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