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Islamic State in Afghanistan is a Major Threat
December 02,2020 | Manish Rai
Islamic State claimed responsibility for some major attacks in Afghanistan recently including Kabul University and rocket attacks in the capital Kabul. The terror outfit has ...
Reform UN to keep it relevant
December 02,2020 | Bimal Prasad Mohapatra
Post-World War-I and following Paris Peace Conference, on 10 January 1920, the world got the first worldwide intergovernmental organization called the League of Nations (LON), headquatered in Geneva ...
Burgeoning Insecurity in Afghanistan
December 01,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
With the intra-Afghan peace talks in limbo in Doha, Qatar, Afghanistan has been experiencing an unprecedented wave of insecurity. Afghan security forces have been bearing ...
Afghanistan: in the eve of second wave of covid-19
December 01,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In parallel to changes in weather conditions, the concerns over second wave of covid-19 have also increased in Afghanistan. According to latest official reports, 283 positive cases ...
The Implication of Identity Crisis on Afghanistan’s National Unity
November 30,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The identity issues have been one of very hot topics in recent centuries. Although the history of identity issue could be ascribed simultaneous to the history of human ...
European Strategic Complacency Is Not an Option
November 30,2020 | Josep Borrell
Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States has raised hopes in Europe of putting the transatlantic relationship back on track. But there can ...
Women Identity Crisis: Root Factors of Violence in Modern Era
November 29,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In recent days, the issues of violence against women was one of the hot topic in the country. According to Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), the physical ...
War and Peace in Bosnia
November 29,2020 | Carl Bildt
At a US Air Force base in Ohio 25 years ago, the European continent’s most devastating war since 1945 came to an end with the Dayton Agreement. After three and ...
Quantitative and Qualitative Review of International Aid in Afghanistan
November 28,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In recent days, the international community has renewed their aid with pledging around $12 billion over four coming years while restricted their money to various conditions ...
The G20 Debt Plan Does Not Go Far Enough
November 28,2020 | By: Shamshad Akhtar, Kevin P. Gallagher, and Ulrich Volz
The COVID-19 crisis has come at the worst possible time for humanity. The poorest countries were already struggling to meet their development goals in the face of cyclones ...
The Republican System in Afghanistan
November 25,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
After the downfall of Taliban in 2001 in Afghanistan, the country started its journey towards a republican system of government. Bonn Agreement was the first step ...
Protecting Child Workers During the Pandemic
November 25,2020 | Jiniya Afroze
It is already apparent that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be uneven, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the fallout. This includes the 1.2 million children in Bangladesh ...
The Reasons ‘Why intra-Afghan talk is not fruitful in Doha’
November 24,2020 | Dawlat Bakhtiari
As America prepares to pull out its military forces from Afghanistan. The country remains at the center of Afghan elites concern. For, Afghanistan is one of the deadliest ...
A Glimpse at Territory of Addicts in Kabul City
November 24,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although there is no accurate reports about level of addiction in the country, it is said that around three million people are addicted in Afghanistan while a large number of them have ...
What COVID Is Costing Women
November 23,2020 | Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Although COVID-19 infections and deaths are surging in many parts of the world, recent announcements of apparently successful vaccine trials have offered a light at the end of the tunnel...
Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy Under Shavkat Mirziyoyev
November 22,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Like all other Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan faced major challenges after its independence to pursue an effective foreign policy, particularly, in the light of striking ...
Essential Changes Can Commence after Changes in Political Parities
November 22,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Unluckily, the Afghan traditional political parties failed to play a constructive role in past two decades in the country. Instead of working for the country, they have downgraded ...
Imran Khan’s “Historic” Visit to Kabul!
November 21,2020 | Kazim Ali Gulzari
Since 2001, the relation between Pakistan and Afghanistan has remained quivering and the mistake caused trouble not only to a single country but to the region as a whole ...
Civil Society and Its Challenges in Afghanistan
November 21,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Despite ambiguities in definition or concept of civil society, it is possible to draw out a general picture from the current political literature about its importance ...
Imran Khan’s Visit to Afghanistan – An Opportunity to Mark a New Chapter
November 18,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is set to visit Afghanistan this week, most probably on November 19. The trip is being made on the invitation of President ...
Millions of people under winter threatening Issues in Afghanistan
November 18,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In recent days the local media news quoted from Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) that the upcoming winter could be the coldest in the past 100 years...
Changing perceptions of modern terror techniques
November 17,2020 | Dr.Rajkumar Singh
In the 1960s national security was perceived as the ability of a nation to protect its internal values from external threats. In the 1990s the notion of national ...
Populism After Trump
November 17,2020 | Philippe Legrain
Before he was US president, Donald Trump built a reality-television persona on the catchphrase, “You’re fired.” Now, the American people have fired him...
Mexico reaches 1 million virus cases, nears 100,000 deaths
November 16,2020 |
MEXICO CITY- Mexico on Saturday topped 1 million registered coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 test-confirmed deaths, though officials agree the number is probably much ...
Islamophobia and its growing Factors in western societies
November 16,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Islamophobia refers to various prejudicial or irrational behaviors against Islam and Muslims across the world, especially western countries. Based on media news ...
European Strategic Complacency Is Not an Option
November 16,2020 | Josep Borrell
Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States has raised hopes in Europe of putting the transatlantic relationship back on track...
Role of Afghanistan in the Neighborhood of Rising China
November 15,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
China has experienced a remarkable rise in the international political and economic scenario after the international financial crisis of 2008. Today China is the ...
The Media war and Public Position about It in Afghanistan
November 15,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The recent terrorist attack on Kabul University which killed 18 students with an employee and wounded nearly 40 others has raised a lot of questions, public anger and media ...
Security and its typology in Modern Political literature
November 14,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Security is one of the most complicated concepts in political literature which has been defined in different ways with different types and dimensions. Traditionally ...
Realist and Liberal Traditions in the US Foreign Policy
November 14,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
The United States’ (US) foreign policy traditions since the dawn of 20th century can be divided into two broad perspectives — the realist and liberal. The realist ...
What are Fundamental of Challenges of Lasting Peace in Afghanistan?
November 12,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
This is about ten years that formal peace efforts began with the Taliban, no outcome produced yet. It was 2010 that the former Afghan President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai ...
A Safe Retreat from the War on Drugs
November 12,2020 | Tlaleng Mofokeng
While the world has been fixated on the results of the presidential election in the United States, less attention has been paid to another outcome of last Tuesday’s vote: significant steps toward ...
Power Politics in Indian Ocean
November 11,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
The countries like Russia, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan also have their interests in the Indian Ocean and they can prove to be vital players in its power politics...
Afghan People Welcome the Victory of Joe Biden as New US President
November 10,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
According to the primary vote count results, Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States winning nearly 290 Electoral College votes while his rival Donald Trump won only ...
The Expectations of Afghan people from the new Administration of the United States
November 09,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
To the new Administration of the United States:
It has been long time that Doha peace talks with coordination of Khalilzad has produced no outcome other than intensifications ...