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SAARC as a platform of regional co-operation
January 09,2020 | Rajkumar Singh
The countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) represents 1.47 billion people, which is around 25 per cent of the world population. The inspiring ...
Trump’s Gift to China
January 09,2020 | Minxin Pei
US President Donald Trump’s decision to order the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander, has raised the ...
Kabul Streets: the Kingdom of Social Criminals
January 08,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
As result of long war and rising poverty, the phenomena of social crimes have increased in all large cities of Afghanistan, but the Kabul is considered as the Kingdom of social ...
The Assassin’s False Creed
January 08,2020 | Nina L. Khrushcheva
For an armchair warrior like US President Donald Trump, who received five deferments from serving in Vietnam, assassinations must look like a foreign-policy silver bullet. You take ...
The Historical Development of Constitution in Afghanistan
January 07,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
One of the greatest human achievements in the field of social and political life is invention and enactment of rights and laws which largely regulated ...
The Inequality Debate We Need
January 07,2020 | Kenneth Rogoff
While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and fortune of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity. And more ...
Afghan Peace Talk Red Line
January 06,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In the eve of the new round of face-to-face talks with Taliban in Doha, Qatar, concerns are raised among many ordinary Afghans, particularly women, against whom many restricted ...
Suleimani’s Death Likely to Jeopardize Regional Stability
January 06,2020 | Hujjatullah Zia
The surprise killing of Iranian Major General Qassim Suleimani and a powerful Iraqi militia commander and government official Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis have ...
Why No National Consensus on the Afghan peace process?
January 05,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The Talks between United States and Taliban is supposed to resume in next few days after it was suspended for the second time following a suicide attack on a US ...
How Ownership Concentration Is Happening, and Why It Matters
January 05,2020 | Alissa Amico
If the global economy were a chess game, few pieces would be left on the board. Most would be relegated to the role of bystanders, observing a concentration of ...
The Positive and Negative Factors of Democratization in Afghanistan
January 04,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In the last two decades, it is the fourth time that political power is peacefully transited on the basis of democratic rule without uses of weapon in Afghanistan ...
Putting a Price on Soil
January 04,2020 | Esther Ngumbi
On December 5, the world marked World Soil Day. The theme this year, “Stop Soil Erosion, Save our Future,” was chosen to raise awareness of the damage being done to soils ...
Status of Gender Equality in Present Context
January 02,2020 | Rajkumar Singh
Traditionally, the expected role performance of the female places them in a secondary position in the social structure and in the minds of men and women alike. All institutions–social, ...
Putin’s Pipelines to Power
January 02,2020 | Nina L. Khrushcheva
Over the last year, predictions of serious struggles for Russian President Vladimir Putin – or even his political demise – have been increasingly frequent. A recent ...
Hot To Ensure Good Governance
January 01,2020 | A. Sherzai
Favorable, fair, and effective governance is clearly one of the most dominant factors for sustainable development. Today good governance is also a key to sustainable ...
The Future of Putin’s Information Autocracy
January 01,2020 | Sergei Guriev
From Hitler to Stalin, and from Mussolini to Mao, the world’s twentieth-century dictators took to heart Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous dictum that “it is better ...
Challenges of Extreme Poverty Loom Large in Winter
December 31,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
If you walk in Kabul streets, you will see many children worried about their life struggling from dawn to dusk to make the ends meet. If you park your vehicle somewhere in the ...
How to Ban the Use of Foreign Currencies in Afghanistan: A Policy Recommendation to Da Afghanistan Bank
December 31,2019 | Dr. Abdullah Ludeen
Since the introduction of new Afghan currency (Afghani-AFN) in 2003, the use of foreign currencies in some provinces of the country has increased. Among others the ...
The Challenges of Research Culture in Afghanistan
December 30,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
As a consequence of long conflicts in Afghanistan, the research and academic activities are faced many quantative and qualitative challenges. During the domestic ...
Make Europe Relevant Again
December 30,2019 | Sigmar Gabriel and Christoph Bornschein
It is increasingly clear that the European Union was not built to be a global actor. The EU is a strictly European idea, designed to bring peace and prosperity to a region ravaged ...
How Multilateral Mechanism is Important for the Peace Progress of Afghanistan
December 29,2019 | Ting Zhao, Shiping Tang, Yuting Zhou, Di Liu
the security situation in Afghanistan has been sharply strained since U.S. President Donald trump called off talks with the Taliban. Military clashes between Afghan government ...
The Sociological Factors of Ethnic Tension in Afghanistan
December 29,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Historically, the e basic study of sociology backs to the classic age but it has considerably developed in modern era. With the collapse of autocratic regimes and emerging modern ...
Low Health Literacy: A Silent Issue in Afghanistan
December 28,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In Afghanistan, when we talk about health concept it refers to somebody who has no physical disease or disability but based on scientific definition, health ...
Three New Year’s Wishes for Britain and the EU
December 28,2019 | Michel Barnier
The end of the year is a time for closure and new beginnings. As 2019 winds down, that is certainly the case with Brexit. Following the victory of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...
Facing the Current Challenges Appropriately
December 26,2019 | D. Sherzai
It is widely believed concept that the nations that go through difficult times ultimately gain a sense of admiration for peace, tranquility and progress and the members of such nation become more responsible and strive to bring about positive changes. History favors this concept evidently. For example, it took ...
Contemporary Meanings of Republic
December 26,2019 | Rajkumar Singh
The term ‘Republic’ has been derived from the Latin words res publica, public affair or thing. That concept was in turn loosely equivalent to the classical Greek ta koinonia, common things or property, a term originally applied in the early city-state to the city’s treasure, the public funds, and then by analogy coming to symbolise ...
Typology of World Political Powers
December 25,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In Afghan political literature, the political terminologies are not usually used accurately and so it causes a lot of confusions ...
Toward a Privileged EU-UK Partnership
December 25,2019 | Joschka Fischer
Following Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in the United Kingdom’s general election this month, Britain is now on track to leave the European Union on January 31, 2020. Johnson ...
King Boris’s First Test
December 24,2019 | Anatole Kaletsky
Wars end when the belligerents give up fighting. The surest way for this to happen, and sometimes the least destructive, is through a decisive battle that leads to unconditional surrender. . .
Controversy over Election Results
December 24,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
Afghanistan’s incumbent president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, has been declared the winner in September’s election, based on preliminary results. However, other presidential nominees and political parties charged that . . .
Welcome to Afghan Preliminary Election Result
December 23,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Nearly after three months, the election commission has finally announced the preliminary election results in Afghanistan. According to the Independent Election Commission ...
A World Without AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
December 23,2019 | Rémy Rioux & Peter Sands
As part of the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international community set itself the ambitious goal of eradicating HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria ...
Taliban’s Monopolistic View Main Obstacle To Intra-Afghan Talks
December 22,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
There are numerous actors involved in the current Afghan conflict while each one seeks their interests at three levels (global, regional and domestic). The United States and the Taliban ...
The State and Technological Revolution
December 22,2019 | Benedict Macon-Cooney
The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of decades, feats of innovation re-engineer society, diffuse across countries and regions, and fundamentally ...
Children and Women Are The Real Victims of War in Afghanistan
December 21,2019 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The long-lasting conflict continues to threaten the physical safety of Afghan civilians, especially the vulnerable classes such as women and children. As a result, Afghanistan persists ...