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Misunderstanding Afghanistan
October 13,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Why isn’t there peace in Afghanistan? What about the ‘efforts’ put by two of the strongest countries in the world – Soviet Union and United ...
The Cold Season is Beginning with Rise of Corona-Virus and Poverty in Afghanistan
October 13,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
After nearly two months decline in covid-19 outbreak in Afghanistan, there has been a significant increase in the number of positive cases in the past few days...
what are the Internal Factors of the Conflict in Afghanistan?
October 12,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Yesterday, the second vice president, Moh Sarwar Danish, said in a gathering that the Taliban rejected Qur’an and Sunnah as basis for intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha...
Trump’s Helter Skelter
October 12,2020 | Alex Hinton
Strange as it is to say, but it is no longer uncommon to hear talk of insurrection, martial law, and civil war in the United States. The arrest of militia leaders in Michigan ...
Social Crimes and public questions: Where are the security officials?
October 11,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In recent years, the large cities of Afghanistan, especially Kabul, have unprecedentedly witnessed social crimes including street robberies, armed robberies, targeted ...
Beginning of the present global terrorism
October 11,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
Basically, the concept of ‘Terrorism’ is as old as the civilization of mankind itself and has existed in all ages in some form or other which might be known anarchists ...
The Flawed Approach to Peace in Afghanistan
October 10,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, in his usual surprising manner, announced on Wednesday night that ‘the remaining US troops in Afghanistan should ...
Entrepreneurship Culture: Solution to Unemployment Problem in Afghanistan
October 10,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
When we turn on the local TV or open the media news, thousands of issues such war, terrorism, unemployment, poverty, children malnourishment and so on irritate our ears ...
Will Peace with the Taliban Can Establish a Stable Political System in Afghanistan?
October 07,2020 | Dawlat Bakhtiari
Undoubtedly, social disorders like civil war, insurgency attacks, and terrorist activities can damage the capacity of Afghanistan for further development. Above all, the growing ...
The Pandemic’s Complex Cocktail
October 07,2020 | By: Mohamed A. El-Erian
Having long been buttressed by ample liquidity, financial markets are entering the final quarter of 2020 amid an increasingly tentative global economic recovery, unusual political ...
Why Our Democracy Stuck in History?
October 06,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Democracy is the most prominent political feature of modern political systems considered as the most important sign of political development in any country...
The UAE-Israel deal’s historicity is in the fine print
October 06,2020 | Dr. James M. Dorsey
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed walked away from this month’s White House signing ceremony with more ...
Federalism and Its Opponents and Proponents in Afghanistan
October 05,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In recent years, the creation of a federal system has been of the controversial topics in Afghanistan. The opponents of a federal system believe that this form of system is ...
Pakistani Taliban Pushing for Come Back
October 05,2020 | Manish Rai
It was believed from sometimes now that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) aka Pakistani Taliban has been marginalized and in disarray. As Pakistan’s army operations back in 2014 ...
The Source Code of Efficient Public Policy
October 04,2020 | Urkhan Seyidov
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed the second global economic crisis in just 12 years. But, unlike the crash of 2008, which revealed severe structural flaws in the financial ...
Will the New Diplomatic Moves End the Complexities between Afghanistan and Pakistan?
October 03,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The trip of Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of the Supreme National Reconciliation Council of Afghanistan, to Pakistan and Pakistan’s warm welcome has created new waves ...
Wakhan Corridor – An Amazing Land
October 03,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
Wakhan Corridor, in the Afghan province of Badakhshan, has been the homeland of Wakhi people for more than 2500 years, There live more than 18,000 Wakhi and Kyrgyz people in ...
Why the Taliban Never Calms Down from Their Dogmatic Position?
September 30,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although the intra-Afghan talks started two weeks ago in Doha, no significant results have been achieved so far . the Taliban continued to put the government on a tight spot both ...
Complexities of war against terrorism
September 30,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
The terrorists of today have a global network and little firm information is available about the type of data used by network analysts. The experts in general mostly ...
What Challenges the Free Market Faces in Afghanistan?
September 29,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
According to article 10 of constitution of Afghanistan, the economic system of the country defined as free market system. Though there is no absolute concept in social science ...
How Climate Targets Can Help Economic Recovery
September 29,2020 | Francisca Tondreau
With the world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have turned their attention to economic stimulus and financial support of households and firms. As a result ...
Returning to Multilateralism
September 28,2020 | Ban Ki-moon
COVID-19 has shone a light on the acute vulnerabilities of a deeply interconnected world. No country, regardless of its size, wealth, or technological sophisticatio ...
The Pharmaceutical Challenges in Afghanistan
September 27,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Yesterday, it was coincided with world pharmacists’ day. Ahmad Jawad Osmani, the acting minister of public health, speaking in a related ceremony, as local report quoted ...
Rural-Urban Migration: the Main Factor Behind Challenges in Kabul City
September 27,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan and considered as one of the ancient city of the world with having a history of over than 3,000 years, it is faced with many social ...
Shaping Palestinian politics: The UAE has a leg up on Turkey
September 27,2020 | James M. Dorsey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t miss a beat during his address to the United Nations General Assembly ...
The Ups and Downs of Constitutional Development in Afghanistan
September 26,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
This is more than a century that Afghanistan has been experiencing ups and downs with tolerating countless sacrifices until achieved the modern constitution in 2004. In 1880 When...
Democrats Must Finally Play Hardball
September 26,2020 | Jan-Werner Mueller
Around the world, right-wing populists are hollowing out democracy and the rule of law. But unlike many twentieth-century dictators, today’s aspiring authoritarians ...
Why Afghan Women Suffer
September 23,2020 | M. Hashemi
Woman, the social and historical pariah of human society, lives a noisome life. She is doomed to suffer overwhelming pain and anguish in one way or another. Her beauty is deemed ...
Avoiding a Climate Lockdown
September 23,2020 | Mariana Mazzucato
As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out of control. In the near future ...
Taliban Must Honor Diversity in Intra-Afghan Talks
September 22,2020 | Dr. Hussain Yasa
After one week of the opening of the Intra-Afghan Talks, at last, the distance between the two negotiating teams started surfacing in the first session of their proper face ...
Anti-Terror Strategy of US in Afghanistan
September 22,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were the result of a catastrophic intelligence failure in which different American agencies failed to connect the dots. In response, the George ...
The Environmental Consequences of Political Repression
September 21,2020 | Henry MunangatireHenry Munangatire
Zimbabwe was once Africa’s rising star. Boasting robust human capital, considerable natural-resource wealth, and modern infrastructure, it was the continent’s leadi ...
The Winter Nightmare or Upcoming Air-pollution in Cold Season
September 21,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
With closing to the cold season, many of the citizens are preparing to buy heating fuel for the winter. The main fuel which is usually used for heating households in Kabul are ...
Feminism and its implication in Afghanistan
September 20,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Feminism is a range of social, political, and ideological movements that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality between men and women...
How Poverty Reduction Can Survive Deglobalization
September 20,2020 | Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have curtailed globalization in ways that the current US administration could scarcely have dreamed up even a year ago. But, viewed in a broader context, this year ...