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By Abdul Haseeb Rahimi The World of Data and Technology can help us make more informed decisions based on a deeper understanding of the problems we are facing. The era of the end of the theory is here, and anything that is not backed by data or data analysis has …

A deadly scourge of violence has descended upon Afghanistan, precipitating the internecine war and human suffering and dashing hopes for peace. Violence has reached a crescendo with a paroxysmal burst of brutal attacks against the civilian population and the brave Afghan forces. Civilians have been hanging by a thread amidst …

By Mohammad Ihsan KABUL: The Taliban alongside hundreds of foreign terrorists set attacks on Lashkargah, the capital city of southern Helmand province but our brave security forces defeated the militants and based on media reports tens of Taliban, including their governor, top commanders and foreign terrorists were killed and many …

By Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Chinese President Xi Jinping recently attended a series of high-level meetings marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. While addressing those meetings, he gave a comprehensive and systematic answer to the major questions before mankind. What kind of world …

By Dr QU Dongyu The UN’s food agency was born in the wake of catastrophe. Three quarters of a century later, its mission has been made more relevant to the world at large by another global scourge.   I won’t deny it: when I took over as Director-General of the …

By Farid Shahbazli The Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which has lasted for more than 30 years, has seriously affected the fate of more than a million people. Armenia, which has territorial claims to Azerbaijan’s historical lands, launched a military aggression in the early 1990s and carried out ethnic cleansing of the …

We have a big policing problem in Kabul. It is as if law enforcement agencies are in hibernation as criminals and thieves are exulting in their unbridled freedom in absence of rule of law. Crime and mayhem has crept in every nook and cranny of Kabul. The city has become …

Paradox in the language of American officials is ruining prospects of peace talks for Afghanistan. The US special representative Zalmay Khalilzad in a brazen speech has said Afghanistan could become another Syria. His attempt was to warn the Afghan government about consequences of downplaying the Taliban in peace negotiations. That …

President Ashraf Ghani had made an astonishing claim that he had fixed the whole Afghanistan. He repeated this, and asked the audience, didn’t he? “I fixed the whole Afghanistan, didn’t I? President asked the audience in a gathering in southeastern Paktika province. The participants had no choice but to agree …

IN a strange twist of events surrounding the Afghan enigma, Pakistan seems to have realigned its foreign policy towards Afghanistan against all odds, having offered support – hitherto unheard of – for the ongoing peace negotiations between Kabul and Taliban. But there is no guarantee Islamabad will be doing more …