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In today’s India-friendly Afghanistan, the Taliban are a reality. Any meaningful peace process will need the direct participation of New Delhi. Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Mohammed Haneef Atmar, was in New Delhi on a three-day official visit to discuss the ‘Afghan peace process’ with Indian officials. The trip comes as the …

By Mohammed Gul SAHIBBZADA It has been two decades in the making since the US and allied forces toppled Taliban regime and installed Hamid Karzai as head of transitional Government of Afghanistan in 2001, who continued to rule the country for thirteen years, followed by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who took …

By Zia Nezam We must strive to achieve a peace agreement, but it must be a fair and equitable peace agreement. In the 2019 Asia Foundation national survey of 18,000 respondents, only 13 percent of Afghans said that they have a lot or a little sympathy for the Taliban, while …

                                                Summary by Matin Royeen Ph.D Introduction:  In the past forty years, the Afghan people have paid a very heavy price due to protracted violent conflict.  The bloody Communist coup of 1978 followed by ten years of former Soviet invasion in December of 1979 and the brutal civil war caused …

By Saifullah Ahmadzai On 16/Mar/2021, Mahmood Tarzi Think Tank of the Regional Studies Center, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan held a scientific gathering titled “The Role of Kamal Khan Dam in Economic Development of Afghanistan”. Mr. Shoaib Rahim (lecturer and writer), Mr. Mohammad Dawood Mohammadi (acting director of Mohammad Tarzi …

By Andalib Asem Afghanistan is endowed with immense mineral and hydrocarbon resources, including gold, lithium, copper, lead, precious and semi-precious stones, natural gas, petroleum, and many others. In 2010, US geologists conducted an aerial survey that discovered untapped mineral deposits worth more than $1 trillion. While Afghanistan faces a plethora …

Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Today we mark the International Day of Forests, and never before has there been greater reason to focus our attention on these precious natural resources that cover a third of the Earth’s land area. We …

Dr. Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Abdul Basir Osmany, Mursal Dawodi Faculty of Computer Science, Kabul University Abstract  As in today’s businesses the process of acquiring, validating, storing and protecting the data is a critical and vital subject. Therefore, effective data management acts as an important part of organizations IT systems that …

By Oğuzhan ERTUĞRUL Today marks the centennial anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Afghanistan. Ankara Government was officially recognized today by Afghanistan through the Treaty of Alliance signed on 1 March 1921. I use the term “Ankara Government”, because Turkey is founded in 1923, and in …

Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan The world today is caught between a pandemic of the century and momentous changes never seen in the last one hundred years. Human society is going through the most serious pandemic in the past century, and the world economy is witnessing the worst recession …