::. Editorial
Strategic Agreement with Germany
Updated on May 17, 2012
A strategic agreement was signed between Afghanistan and Germany by President Karzai and Chancellor Merkel on Wednesday, May 16, in Berlin. Followed by strategic partnership pacts with the US, Britain, France, Italy and India, the agreement with Germany is another major boost to Afghanistan's emergence as a sovereign ...
No Room for Full or Partial Power to Taliban without Election
Updated on May 17, 2012
There appears to be a growing consensus that the Taliban cannot fully take over power either by force or by any other means. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1994 to 2001. It was the darkest period in the chequered history of Afghanistan. The ...
Withdrawal Will Push Masses into Poverty
Updated on May 17, 2012
Everybody sees NATO's upcoming Chicago Conference as an event where some clear-cut plans for supporting Afghanistan's military and economy in post-2014 era will be finalized. Nonetheless, to speculate that the summit will address all the negative impacts that will be left behind after the international troops' withdrawal ...
Need to Use Strategic Agreements Properly
Updated on May 16, 2012
Afghanistan is now a country with strategic partnership agreements with several strong and powerful countries of the world. Afghanistan is an extremely poor country torn by years of war and conflict. It is a country that is suffering from interferences by the neighboring countries. Its neighbors continue to maintain a hostile ...
Sacrifices Must No Go Futile
Updated on May 16, 2012
Over the last decade, about 3,000 foreign soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan. Same has been the fate of thousands of Afghan security forces and innocent civilians. With huge sacrifice in blood and treasure, the future is still gravely uncertain for the people of Afghanistan as suicide bombing, targeted killing and ...
The Consequences of Rahmani’s Assassination
Updated on May 16, 2012
On Sunday, May 13, Arsala Rahmani was shot dead in district 3, Dahburi square, near Kabul University. He was a high profile figure in President Karzai's government as well as worked in key political positions during Mujaheedin's government and Taliban regime. He was the minister of higher education during Taliban regime. Unlike many ...
The Perilous Over-Diplomacy
Updated on May 15, 2012
More than anyone else, Afghans are afraid of their undecided future with the strategic mistakes being committed by President Karzai’s government and its international allies. Clearly, the international community is too exhausted to carry on military mission here. Elections and the political campaigns in addition to the financial ...
Afghanistan No More the Worst Place for Moms
Updated on May 15, 2012
By hearing the name of ‘Afghanistan,’ images of war, killings and violence start circulating in one’s mind. Although conflicts still continue, with the intervention of international community many things in the lives of Afghan people have changed or changing. Afghanistan was the worst place for a mother to be but now ...
Emerging Voices against Corruption
Updated on May 15, 2012
Over the last few years, it has become evident that President Hamid Karzai does not have any strong political will to stamp out corruption from the administration he is running. This happens while corruption is a major scourge and leads to wastage of international aid money. International community has been ...
The Future of Peace Talks in Limbo
Updated on May 14, 2012
With the disputed process of peace talks being pushed forward by President Karzai's government and Taliban's resistant attacks, public trust in dependability of the initiative continues slowing down. The major party that is invited to embrace the reconciliation process has regularly blown off the efforts. Afghanistan's ...
Insurgents’ Infiltration Extremely Damaging
Updated on May 14, 2012
Killing of NATO forces in the hands of their Afghan counterpart – a trend termed as 'green on blue attacks' – is a big present and expected future problem. Although certain measures by ISAF and Afghan military authorities have been taken to prevent such killings, the attacks have been reoccurring at short intervals ...
Third Phase of Security Transition
Updated on May 14, 2012
The third phase of security transition was announced by President Hamid Karzai on May 13, 2012. As per the planned procedure, the security responsibility of the country has to be transferred from international troops to Afghan forces within five phases. Two of the phases have already been completed and according to ...
20% Must not be the Target
Updated on May 13, 2012
Every year of the last three decade has been a year of bloodshed in Afghanistan. USSR invasion, civil war and Taliban all caused death of millions of innocent Afghans. In past ten years – deemed as a comparatively peaceful era for Afghanistan – civilian killings have continued; caused both by Taliban insurgents and the US led international ...
The Syrian Uprising has Turned Deadly
Updated on May 13, 2012
Horrifying reports are received from Syria where the so-called Arab Spring has come with deadly rain and storm. On Thursday, May 10, two suicide bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus, the deadliest attacks in the capital since the start of uprising against President ...
Development without Sustainability
Updated on May 13, 2012
As society moves forwards in the 21st Century, sustainable development will in creasingly be seen to a resilience issue for protecting and enhancing our quality of life within ever decreasing environmental limits. In spite of international community presence with inflow of billions of dollars more than a decade ...
Insurgents should be defeated
Updated on May 12, 2012
Development in the Afghanistan's various sectors that has take place over the last decade is laudable, although rampant corruption, bad security, poppy cultivation and other critical issues still exist. With international community's financial and non-financial support, noteworthy improvements are observable in democracy ...
Masses Must Condemn Taliban Atrocities
Updated on May 12, 2012
A Taliban roadside bomb in Helmand killed seven members of a family, including five children on Thursday in Musalmani village of Musa Qala district. Taliban claimed responsibility for an incident in Musalmani area saying an explosion blew up an ISAF military vehicle. Local residents reported the tribal elder and ...
Iran on Afghan-US Strategic Pact
Updated on May 10, 2012
Iran has come up with some irrational diplomacy on the Afghan-US strategic pact inked recently. Reportedly, the Iranian ambassador in Kabul in meeting with the speaker of the Meshrano Jirga (WJ) warned that if the partnership pact got endorsed from WJ, Iran would expel all Afghan refugees from its territory. That sounds ...
Need to Dismantle the Capability to Attack
Updated on May 10, 2012
The Taliban have launched their spring offensive called Operation Al-Farooq. Every spring the Taliban, after a relative winter lull, plan and carry out offensive under different names and titles. In response to the surge, the Ministry of Interior Affairs has issued a statement to ensure Afghan people that the ...
Low Investment is Damaging the Economy
Updated on May 10, 2012
Afghanistan is the victim of three decades of what is called the foreign-imposed war. After the Taliban was toppled in late 2001 as result of US-led invasion, a new window of hope and affluence opened for Afghanistan. One of the areas under international focus was to boost up Afghan economy by encouraging ...