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Tragedy-comedy with Afghanistan

Tragedy-comedy has a long history in Afghanistan.  This history has bruised our national pride. The tragedy is Afghanistan has a longest history of being interfered by others. And the comedy is those who interfere in our internal matters call it an act of helping. When it comes to this tragedy …

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Laurel Miller in Pakistan

As the Taliban and other terror groups are creeping into urban and residential areas, putting civilians’ lives at greater risk, casualties are soaring steadily. There has been a security deterioration never seen before. The government cannot sit idly. It cannot adopt the wait and see policy as things gone messed …

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Patience of the nation at boiling point

There is a tsunami of troubles and issues. One issue is not resolved that yet another issue emerges. At times they challenge our collective stamina as a nation. What did happen to the Shiite passengers in Zabul province at the hands of ISIS is the extreme of brutalities. The brutes …

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The botched diplomacy

Afghan officials have failed times and again to employee diplomacy properly and secure the national interests. Sometimes they ignore the protocols and most of the times they overlook importance of diplomacy in the international politics to present aspirations of Afghans. Recently, the PTI-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) denied giving …

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The stranded quake-victims and the Taliban

The winter is already in. The government is engrossed in battling the Taliban in Warduj district of the Taliban-infested Badakhshan province. The quake-victim people in this Badakhshan, in desperate need of aid, are at risk of being ignored. The government is looked lost—as it doesn’t have the capacity to battle …

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ISIS in Syria and in Afghanistan

The probe into the crash of Russia passenger plane in the Sinnai Peninsula has been concluded. The crux of the probe is either a bomb explosion or a catastrophic mechanic failure caused the crash. The ISIS (known across the Muslim world as Daesh), has claimed responsibility. ISIS and targeting a …

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Better to realize late than never

The National Unity Government has realized now that overlooking India, in the initial months of coming into existence, was a mistake. Yet another mistake was heavily relying on Pakistan. To correct that mistake a need was ever felt that Kabul must increase defense ties with India, but again the government …

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Kabul’s flawed response to Berlin

Afghanistan in a controversial nod, will take back all its citizens to be deported from Germany, as Berlin is struggling to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have arrived in the European country. The nod by the Afghan government is controversial. The government earned sharp criticism …

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Murky US policy and pervasive violence in Afghanistan

Why violence today is worse than it was a few years back? Is this happening just because of the US or some domestic factors are also responsible? If the United States is failing in curbing the terror, yes the terror, it had lit in a joint venture with some Muslim …

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War on poppy cultivation

The US government’s watchdog on spending for Afghanistan released a report on American war on drug in Afghanistan. According to the report the US has spent 8.4 billion on counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan since 2002, yet this country still remains the world’s largest producer of opium. The aid that came …

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