Editorial

Consider their track record; apprehensions existed since well before the signing of a power-sharing deal between President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman Abdullah Abdullah in May. However, their recent modus operandi concerning key national issues are only realizing and substantiating those worries. It’s only the beginning of their joint government but …

The Afghan war has taken its fair share of a toll on children, depriving them of their right to living a peaceful life and the right to acquiring their desirable education. There are numerous cases of underage boys being projected into conflicts, especially in areas under the Taliban’s write. These …

One of the by-products of the non-stop war in Afghanistan has been poverty, an imposed fate lived by the naturally-rich nation of Afghanistan now. Last year, the United Nations Development Program put the poverty rate at 55 percent as some 1.9m people were food insecure. Based on the UN figures …

There seems no willingness and compromise shown by the warring sides to resolve the major stumbling block in the Afghan peace process, which is the issue of prisoner release. The Afghan government has reportedly freed over 4000 Taliban prisoners so far and the remaining 600 are said to be not …

Availing from the relative lull in bilateral trust deficit – owing mostly to the peace talks – and the numerous issues Afghanistan is facing, our neighboring country Pakistan continues to fence the Durand Line. On one hand, it talks about partaking in meetings with Afghan officials to improve ties but …

The Afghan government and the Taliban group, to whom the US signed a peace deal, have been engaged in accusation spree raising fear of derailing the Afghan peace process. US-Taliban signed a landmark agreement in Doha on 29th February to end the 19-year-long war in Afghanistan where the war-weary Afghans …

Corruption is a menace that continues to bedevil war-weary Afghanistan. Earlier there were reports of embezzlement in the COVID-19 pandemic funds by the relevant ministry and now the reconstruction of a mere 70-meter-long boundary wall at the Afghan Embassy to the US has cost over $1.8 million. This comes as …

The continued existence of the current dispensation in Afghanistan is in its unity – something that it seemingly lacks. A power-sharing deal between President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman Abdullah Abdullah which was signed in May following last year’s controversial presidential election paved the way for forming up an inclusive government …

Since its emergence, the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant adverse health, social, and economic impacts in Afghanistan, drastically shrinking the economy and driving down public revenue. Most of all, people who live below the poverty line have been hardly hit. In a recent study by the global aid agency named …

The coronavirus pandemic is still spreading rapidly worldwide as over 11 million people have been diagnosed with the novel virus. In Afghanistan, more than 33,000 people have been infected and over 880 have died so far. However, looking at the recent trends, the number of COVID-19 positive cases average around …