Saleem Samad
What lies ahead for the Taliban?
Economy, hunger, drought, poverty challenges the Taliban by Saleem Samad While world leaders and international organizations are eagerly awaiting for the chicken to hatch from the Taliban’s governme…
Columns
The never-ending devastation of Afghanistan
There were a host of reasons that led to the abject and sudden collapse of the Afghan National Security Forces in so short a period by Ashok K Mehta With a steady supply of Kabul cherries till early…
World View
Afghanstan: Challenges Before Joe Biden Administration
by Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra The Incoming Joe Biden's administration will have lesser options in dealing with the Afghan insurgency. It cannot choose to go offensive despite the fact that the peace…
Robert J. Burrowes
The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key?
Starting with three young people who accompanied him from the mountains, the first manifestation of a live-in peace community in Kabul was soon underway. by Robert J. Burrowes I have just r…
Terrorism
Time To Liberate Afghanistan
The US warns that if Taliban wins, it will turn Afghanistan into a base for international terrorism. This is absurd. Taliban today controls more than half the nation by day, and 80% by night. There…
World View
Peace in Afghanistan?
The coalition forces unleashed their military might, including the use of ‘daisy cutters’, during the 18 years long war in the land of jagged mountains. by Iftekhar A. Khan The peace talks …
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America’s Shameful War
by Eric S. Margolis An ancient Hindu prayer says, ‘Lord Shiva, save us from the claw of the tiger, the fang of the cobra, and the vengeance of the Afghan.’ The United States, champion of freedo…
World View
Taliban --- Challenge to the Hegemony
by Ali Sukhanver A school going Afghan boy would simply remain silent rather dumb if someone asks him what he is going to be when he grows up. The reason behind this silence and dumbness would be not…
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Afghanistan Drifting Towards Election Process
by Ali Sukhanver The US diplomat ZalmayMamozy Khalilzad had been the highest-ranking Muslim American in the George W.Bush administration. His diplomatic services with reference to countries like Iraq…
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