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Of a Comfortable Life
February 11, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
e were sitting in the large guest room. It was afternoon and the day was hot but big windows of the room opened from both the sides to the garden and pleasant breeze entered the room ...
OIC’s Altered Outlook
February 11, 2013 | Asmatyari
The 12th Islamic Summit Conference at foreign ministers level was held in Cairo, Egypt on February 6 and 7, 2013 in which Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu warned against the growing ...
The Issue of Graft Re-emphasized
February 10, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) report on Thursday, February 07, 2013, once again raised concerns regarding corruption in Afghanistan. The report revealed that Afghan citizens paid as much as US$3.9 billion in bribes to ...
The First and Final Drop
February 10, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
The story is very interesting from the beginning to its end. A poor and old lady used to work in the house of a rich man. The lady lived with her two daughters who had just become adult. The man ...
Marketing Terrorism and Fear
February 10, 2013 | Musa Khan Jalalzai
As we live in an era of fear market, where only ignorance drives our thoughts and responses, everyday, we observe many incidents of auctions in terror markets across the globe. These fear markets are being spread ...
Pre-requisites of a True Democracy
February 09, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Following the collapse of the Taliban, Afghan representatives and the international community gathered in Bonn, Germany to establish an alternative system for post-Taliban Afghanistan. At the Bonn I Conference, they decided to establish a democratic government for ...
Let’s Deject Social Evils
February 09, 2013 | Asmatyari
Any evil, such as overindulgence, that negatively affects society is generally termed as social evil. Social ill-practices, detrimental to social bond of enhancive interaction, receiving ...
Bridging the Gaps!
February 09, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
Cold war divided the world into two blocks; in which some of the countries joined one block while others the second. All the ties and positive cooperation between the two blocks were cut off ...
ANSA’s Emphasis on Environmental Protection
February 07, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
It is not just the issue of security that is influencing the Afghan society. There are many other issues as well that influence Afghan society and Afghan people in some way or the other. Few of ...
Kabul-Islamabad Relation: Cold and Close
February 07, 2013 | Masood Korosh
On Monday, Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zadari, and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, said that they would try their best for realization of peace negotiation within coming ...
Winter is Yet to be Over!
February 06, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Though the winter in Afghanistan has entered its last phase, it is yet to be over as another major wave of cold weather has struck some parts of the country very hard. There has been heavy snowfall in most of ...
Growing Up With War
February 06, 2013 | Noorjahan Akbar
I was born in an apartment building in Kabul, where we had inconsistent power and running water. My mother tells me that I used to love water and would scream, “Water is here. Power ...
Knowledge and Blessings
February 06, 2013 | Mohammad Rasool Shah
In the present scenario of our country, many things appear to be disappointing, making a person hopeless about the future of this country. There is corruption, warlords, terrorists, security ...
Making Political System Better
February 05, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Afghanistan is going through a transition period which involves the transfer of security responsibilities from international troops to Afghan authorities. At the same time it is being considered that transition of security arrangements alone would ...
Time Managed is Success Earned!
February 05, 2013 | Asmatyari
Have you ever seen you’re most important tasks being put off until later and then later and later, while you are getting busy with many not so important activities? Did you hope that you may ...
Cleanliness; Inside and Outside
February 05, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
>It may be very rare in Europe, America and other developed countries, comparatively less in our country but there are present very effective and strong magicians in India and some of its
Hopefulness Regarding Untapped Resources
February 04, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
There are certain concerns regarding the post-withdrawal scenario in Afghanistan; among them the economic challenges are the most dominant one. As it is expected that after withdrawal of international troops there would be decrease in the aid and ...
On The Blessed Occasion
February 04, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
In Sufism, there is a concept of ‘Peer’ and ‘Mureed’ or in other words, of teacher and the student. A Mureed or student chooses a highly spiritual person to be his Peer ...
Concerns Regarding Human Rights
February 03, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 665-page report on the situation of human rights in more than 90 countries on Thursday, January 31. The report, while discussing Afghanistan mentions that there are serious ...
And With Age Comes Wisdom!
February 03, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
Everything seems to be dark and disappointing. It is mainly because of the poor health when every organ starts malfunctioning and thus a feeling of weariness intimidates the ...
The Fading Concept of Arab Spring
February 03, 2013 | Masood Korosh
Looking deeply into the current situation of Egypt, the largest populous state in the Arab world and the mostly-viewed driver of democracy in the future, sorry to utter, makes me to go ...
Political System is a Dynamic Phenomenon
February 02, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
A political system is established within a state so as to safeguard the rights of its people and solve the socio-political issues that may hamper the better life opportunities. If a system fulfills the challenges and solves the problems that may erupt ...
To Earn is To Suffer!
February 02, 2013 | Asmatyari
Unemployment has turned into an international issue that has yet to be addressed. The number of global unemployed is expected to hit a record 200 million in 2013, according to a news report ...
Gift for the Fellow Beings
February 02, 2013 | By Muhammad Rasool Shah
Like the physical requirements of food, water and other things, our souls also require their food. This includes affection, love, respect and sharing the company of each ...
What Do Leaders Do?
January 31, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
Man has suffered much in the evolution of civilization and for having good political system and as a result a good leader. Passing through the ages of tyranny, slavery, monarchy, dictatorship, socialism and capitalism, today man has got the core of a just system ...
ATTRIBUTES OF BEING CIVILIZED
January 31, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
A man was walking on the road. At once, another man came out of a shop very fast and hit the man on the road and they both fell down. First man stood up and said to the next in a bitter voice, ‘Why don’t you look before you come out on road, you ...
Egypt is Bogged Down in Continuous Mayhem
January 31, 2013 | Masood Korosh
The Egypt is kneeling down under weight of its economic and political turmoil. No matter if the police moved out and army moved in, yet people pay no attention to declaration of President Morsi announcing state- ...
Parliamentarianism; People Centered System
January 30, 2013 | Asmatyari
In April 26 2011, Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, did have a presentation at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office London, pertaining rule of law and justice system in Afghanistan.The facts highlighted by that very report ...
The Growth of Neo-Radicalism
January 30, 2013 | Abbas Daiyar
The Muharram commemorations late last year were observed under fear of renewed terrorist attacks. This was due to last year’s first-of-its-kind suicide attack on an Ashura ...
Imran Khan: A blue-eyed politician
January 30, 2013 | Muhammad Younas
The mandate of the present elected governments will expire on March 18th and the general elections will likely be held around 6th of May 2013 in Pakistan, however the incumbent PPP led-government ...
Judiciary – A Vital Organ of State
January 29, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
No state in the world can maintain its integrity and order if it does not possess and guard justice. Justice is the requirement to maintain law and order and reduce crimes from a society. If a state fails to establish strong ...
TALKING OF THE YOUTH!
January 29, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
A man got very angry of a cat in his house. He took a stick in his hand and ran after the cat. Cat went into a room and tried to hide itself somewhere. Man quickly closed and locked the door and started looking for ...
Pakistan’s Afghan Peace Efforts
January 29, 2013 | Khalid Khokhar
While the main objective of US military strategists was to root out terrorism through “military measures” alone, the Americans have realized that ...
The Sufferings Continue
January 28, 2013 | Dilawar Sherzai
A new report on Saturday, January 26, once again highlighted how certain women fight with miseries of life in Afghanistan. According to the report, an 18-year-old girl was found hanged in the Sar Asyab area of Injil district, in the ...
Of Words and Wounds
January 28, 2013 | Muhammad Rasool Shah
A man stopped a taxi and told him about the place he intended to go. Taxi driver asked him to sit in the taxi. As in our country, there is no concept of taxi meter or any other well-defined rates by ...