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The horrific truck bombing at the green village on Jan 14,2019 in Kabul ended the life of a young and bright international development professional Ms Shipra Sharma in the most brutal and menacing way. She was intelligent, dynamic and luminary in her own right. It was just 3 months that …

By Ajmal Rahimi-None can deny the importance of Chabahar Port in bolstering up the Afghan economy which gives an outstanding opportunity for the landlocked country to gain access to sea port. The port can be taken as the most viable route for trade between Kabul, New Delhi and Tehran. After …

AT-FARAH CITY: Twenty policemen have been killed and fiveothers wounded in overnight Taliban attacks in western Farah and northwesternFaryab provinces, sources said on Monday. Farah provincial council’s deputy head Shah Mohammad Naeemi told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed a security check-post in Sur village of Farah City, the provincial …

By Ahmad Shah Katawazai-U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, is once again in Pakistan, trying to convince Islamabad for halting its support to the insurgent group. Khalilzad trip begins after Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan has received a letter from the U.S. president Donald Trump, asking Pakistan’s help …

By Imtiaz Wazir-On November 15 when took the cadaver of Tahir Dawar with public and official protocol from Jalalabad to Turkham, the convoy was stopped in about one km from the crossing point on Durand line, and I with three other colleagues walked to the crossing point where we met …

A full excerpt of Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta’s speech is as below: Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Fourth Strategic Dialogue between India and Afghanistan. I believe that determinant factors defining the strategic nature of Afghanistan and India’s relations are the following: Geopolitics Shared History and Culture The prospect of …

By Masomjan Masomy-The killing of Pashtun and Baloch masses, is not the first attempt nor the last one by Pakistan establishment alongside the history, and this is a regular action on which is resulted in by assassinating, torturing and missing of Pashtuns and Balochs. This brutal action of genocide takes …

The movement is stronger than any time since an American-led military coalition deposed it 17 years ago As it pushes to jump-start an Afghan peace process, the U.S. faces a Taliban stronger than any time since an American-led military coalition deposed them 17 years ago, U.S. and Afghan officials, current …

By Masomjan Masomy After the collapse of the Taliban regime, ‘the darkest period in the history of Afghanistan’, by US and NATO forces, however, the country still to gain a durable peace—that unfortunately the country has been stuck in the longest conflict with no end sees in sight. During the …

On October 10, 2018, a Senior Chinese Diplomat in India underscored the need for New Delhi and Beijing to work jointly, in order to counter the policy of trade protectionism, being promoted by US President, Donald Trump. It would be pertinent to point out, that US  had imposed tarriffs estimated at 200 …