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KABUL: The REAL TV Analytic Information Center said that its reporter was stoned on head during protests by the Armenian group of protestors in Brussels. The TV channel in a statement condemned the acts and called on the Belgium government to hold the perpetrators accountable. ‘Khatira Sardargiz, who is a …

By Ms. Tamkin Azizi One country, two systems “is a constitutional concept outlining the governance of Hong Kong and Macau in the People’s Republic of China after they became China’s Special Administrative Regions (SARs) in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Deng Xiaoping proposed this in the early 1980s during talks over …

By Arwin Rahi As protests were raging in the U.S., in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, Iranian leaders took to Twitter to support the protestors. Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted “If you’re dark-skinned walking in the US, you can’t be sure you’ll be …

By NAJIBULLAH LOODIN Under the neo-realist theory, water conflicts have been broadly covered by media around the world (Julien, 2012). Titles such as “It’ll cause a water war: division run deep as filling of Nile Dam nears”; Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their …

By Nadir Shah Katawazai As Sun was about to set, brave Arif wazir, a Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) activists was sitting in a vehicle on the way to his home. Some unidentified people were following his vehicle, when he slowed down his vehicle because of speed breaker, suddenly gun fire …

By Khan Wali Khan Basharmal No one knew what the Afghanistan election of 2019 would bring. Neither the international community, nor the Afghan people, not even the opposition to the current Democratic administration of President Ashraf Ghani. The election was fraught with its own logistical issues. The election date itself …

By Shokrullah Amiri According to the Afghan government figures reported on 4 April 2020, there are now 2894 confirmed cases of  COVID-19 with 90 deaths in Afghanistan. The 40 of these cases are employees and security officers of the Office of the President of Afghanistan and dead of 5 medical …

By Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo Deputy-Director, Agricultural Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Many uncertainties haunt the world’s campaign to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing is now sure: Global economic activity will suffer greatly, with large-scale consequences for the incomes and …

Vaccines are products that protect people against many diseases that can be very dangerous and even deadly. Different than most medicines that treat or cure diseases, vaccines prevent us from getting sick with the disease. Vaccines are products that produce immunity to a specific disease. A vaccine is a biological …

By NAJIBULLAH LOODIN Blantyre, located at the southern part of Malawi, is the commercial hub of the country. Due to its closeness to the Shire River of Zambezi Basin, the city has vast water resources. Despite of its strategic geographical location, the city suffers from proper water service provisioning in …