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The Philosophy of Thankfulness
February 26, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Thankfulness literally means gladness felt about and gratitude shown for the good done to one. Sufis use Shukr to mean using one's body, abilities, feelings, and thoughts bestowed upon one ...
Memories of Taliban Regime
February 25, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
The radical groups of Taliban have been brainwashed and fed by poisonous beliefs which do not lead to the death of themselves but also of many more innocent people around the world. Their fundamental ideology ...
Intra-Afghan Talks; a Futile Exercise
February 25, 2014 | Asmatyari
Putting a glance at the political outlook of Afghanistan, chaotic state of delusion is reflected. The incumbent government sticks to push for futile peace talks whilst insurgents resorted to parallel ...
Rise of Repugnant Crimes
February 25, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Few days ago, two children---a six year old girl and her brother (five years old) --- were kidnapped from eastern part of Kabul city. The abductors called their family and asked for a ransom of 50,000 US ...
The Disabled Must be Assisted
February 24, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
It is really imperative that a society must ensure that all its residents get their due rights. And the these rights must be ensured without any sort of discrimination as all the members ...
The Parallel System of Justice!
February 24, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
His son was kidnapped by local Taliban and nobody knew where he was kept or being transported. He worked in an international NGO and he was twice warned by Taliban to quit his job and stop ...
Human Casualties – Afghans’ Daily Story
February 24, 2014 |
Politically, Afghanistan is at low point. Insecurity and terrorism loom large and our people are suffering in many ways. Taliban militants have multiplied their acts of murder even as the next ...
Learning from Previous Withdrawal
February 23, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Last week, Afghanistan celebrated the 25th year of former Soviet soldiers from Afghanistan. Right 25 years later, forty other countries, combating with Taliban and al-Qaeda for over 12 years ...
Social and Domestic Violence against Afghan Women Continues
February 23, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation, that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent ...
Afghan-Taliban Peace Negotiation
February 22, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
The government of Afghanistan welcomed the remarks by a Taliban group leader who emphasized on peace talks as an effective approach to end the ongoing crisis and violence in Afghanistan ...
Virtues and Happiness!
February 22, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
There is a famous quote that, Lessons of goodness and repentance are a lot but there are very few who learn anything from these lessons. Happiness is also a topic of both ...
The Reasons liberals Scare of Islamic Law in Pakistan
February 22, 2014 | Farman Nawaz
Is Sharia – the Islamic law - a kind of judicial system that is confined only to speedy system of justice or it is the name of tribal customs that will become a yoke of tribal social norms ...
The Words
February 20, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
In the evolution of their social life, through every thick and thin, with fear and wonder, all the way through the thick forests, coming out of the caves and looking at the world around, surviving ...
Enlivening Rich Values
February 20, 2014 | Asmatyari
What is moral education after all? It can be anything that teaches a person moral values and virtue. Values are the set of guidelines that a human being learns to follow. Nobody is born with moral ...
The Mutuality in the Pak-China Relationship
February 20, 2014 | Raja Muhammad Kamran
China will give Pakistan every support and assistance and by helping you, we have to help ourselves. This was stated by Chinese Prime Minister Mr Li Kegiang on 23 May 2013, during his ...
Fruitless Peace Talks
February 19, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
In one of the famous short stories, a student and his teacher are travelling to a place. They have a donkey, a bowl for food and a cup for drinking tea. In the same way, they have very less money ...
Who Will Win the Political Game?
February 19, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Terrorism and the issue of Afghan peace process are highly interminable which still remain controversial after a decade. This jigsaw puzzle has been cut and fitted by political gamers time ...
Hazaras; Killed and Cleansed!
February 19, 2014 | Asmatyari
History documents, the degree of repression accelerated where cowardice apathy prevailed indefinitely. Repression subsided not, continued instead wrenching the elements of peace, tranquility ...
Terrorism - A Growing Menace!
February 18, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
Do we have eyes to see? Do we have ears to listen? Do we have guts to witness that our roads are filled with the blood, many of our children are orphans, our sisters are widowed and our youth ...
The Erosion of Moral Values
February 18, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by ...
Negotiating with Terrorists Encourages more Terrorism
February 18, 2014 | A. Murady
Afghanistan is a victim of terrorism and lost thousands of lives during the past decade. Government of Afghanistan continuously tries negotiating with the insurgents who show no mercy in ...
The Pernicious Ethnic Differences!
February 17, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Until and unless a person comes out of the environment he lives in, he would never come to discover the beauties that are found in different environments in different parts of the world. There ...
Protesting Violence against Women
February 17, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
My love will gather us both together on the day of resurrection. Brutes have placed stones between us in this world. Rahila Moska, a young Afghan woman poet from Helmand. On April 8, 2010 ...
Challenging Battle Ahead
February 17, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Last month, in a spectacular move, al-Qaeda linked militants overruled soldiers in Anbar province. Fallujah and part of Ramadi cities fell to hands of armed opposition and sparked worries in ...
Only Marginal Independence is Attainable
February 16, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
There is a very famous and true saying of Rousseau, “Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains”. However, it would be even suitable to say that man is not born free, because when ...
Freedom – A Dream Comes True
February 16, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that ...
Geneva II Just A Eyewash
February 16, 2014 | Manish Rai
It is hard to imagine that representatives of the 30 countries that assembled in Geneva actually believed that they could find a political solution to the ongoing three year old ...
Inquisitiveness has to be Valued
February 13, 2014 | Dilawar Sherzai
Throughout most part of human history, contemplation has been treated as a crime. Same has been the reaction to being inquisitive. It seems as if contemplation and inquisitiveness ...
Redefining Good and Evil!
February 13, 2014 | Asmatyari
One may argue that every human being has a common sense of what is good or bad instilled in him in his whole life. It is this instinctive set of morals and ethics that has ensured humanity ...
Message from Mogadishu?
February 13, 2014 | Curtis S. Chin
BANGKOK – When it comes to doing business, there are few places worse, it seems, than the likes of Myanmar and Somalia. That at least, according to the World Bank, which has Myanmar ranked ...
Clinging to Conditions for Signing BSA
February 12, 2014 | Masood Korosh
Last Sunday during a meeting with German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President Hamid Karzai once again stood on refusal stage of not signing the Bilateral Security Agreement ...
Challenges to be Addressed by Future President
February 12, 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
Within a decade of passing in a nascent democratic country, Afghan people experienced many challenges bitterly. Now, we are in the threshold of presidential and provincial elections, and the ...
Mosques; Now and Then!
February 12, 2014 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
It was a pleasant summer day this year. We had arrived almost three hours earlier for the ‘Juma’ or ‘Friday’ prayers. There was no one in the mosque ...
Winter and the Barefooted People
February, 11 2014 | Hujjatullah Zia
He was walking in the cold weather of Kabul winter with running nose. He lived in the neighborhood of Sakhi Shrine. His messy clothes and old shoes reflected deep poverty and ...
Dreaming Progressive Afghanistan
February, 11 2014 | Asmatyari
Our beloved motherland passes through diverse security, political and economic troubles. Every problem has got its own dynamics and demands a variant solution. Putting cognitive abilities into ...