Editorial

Skepticism abounds and many commentators are in deep bewilderment to know reason behind current fatality sustained to Afghan commoners and security forces. Our security institutions have been playing a major role in formulating our security strategy, but recent losses of security forces plus civilians have heightened doubts over incompetence in …

Media reports on Friday were saying that the first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum is going to come back home after being away for a long time.The reports have quoted reliable sources close to President Ashraf Ghani that Dostum will return home on Monday from Turkey, where he is staying …

The ongoing conflict is swallowing schools, burning classrooms with a foremost deprivation of schoolchildren from pursuing education which is their basic rights. Sometime, the Taliban militants are entering inside a school firing out of the windows against security forces. In exchanged firing, the school building is partially damage that also …

All efforts are on cards by clerics to induce Taliban to join the peace process and recognize the democratically-elected Afghan government. Since 2001, around 40,000 people have died in a conflict where no end is seen in sight. Its decades now the Taliban insurgents are fighting on religious perspective, but …

With security in ebbs and flows, the extraordinary precautions had taken during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visit to Afghanistan for a few hours on Monday. He held meetings with Afghan leaders, went to Bagram Air Base and snapshot with US staffers at the embassy. Honestly, spending a couple of …

Attention for providing an educational environment for the schoolchildren has gained impetus ever before, especially in rural areas where the parents drawing attention to the value of education. Education is key to success, a light to end darkness, and a weapon to demolish poverty. Still we don’t have remarkable success …

Election is the principal pillar of democracy with which citizens of a democratic nation practice their franchise and throw themselves into their fate. In the wake of the overthrow of the Taliban and the institutionalization of democracy, Afghanistan too became a pro-democratic country, with a pyramid of shortcomings though. Elections …

A major challenge for the Afghan peace process will be successfully reintegrating of Taliban members, who are taking command from their leaders sitting abroad. It’s a fact when combatants of a group shun fighting, it could derail prospects from fighting with the immediate end of conflict. The High Peace Council …

The presidential special guard convoy hit a young girl during President Ashraf Ghani’s Monday visit to the eastern province of Laghman. Salma, 13, was selling yogurt in Mehterlam city, the provincial capital when she was hit by the president’s over-speed convoy. Her relatives have said that she was the only …

A rally turned into violent in Maimana city, provincial capital of northern Faryab province. Extremely distraught over detention of Nizamuddin Qaisari, a close ally of Fist Vice President, General Abdul Rashid Dostum and police chief of Qaisar district, a large number of his supporters took out to the streets, demanding …