A new Afghan war in the offing?
The famous quote "Geography is destiny" aptly applies to Pakistan, which remains a permanent prisoner of its geography. In the last 70 years, Pakistan has fought six open wars and…
Silencing Afghanistan’s women
THERE is no doubt that many have had a role in Afghanistan’s destruction, but the question of who exactly is to blame for the country’s current condition is a thorny…
Afghan refugees
THE manner in which Afghan refugees are being repatriated from Pakistan is unfortunate. Under the Citizens’ Act, anyone born in Pakistan is a Pakistani citizen. If you apply this law,…
Afghan refugees & international law
AFGHAN refugees came to Pakistan more than four decades ago and since then Pakistan has played the role of an admirable host in every possible way. However, before further continuing…
Suffocating Afghan women
ALMOST two years after they seized control of Kabul, the Afghan Taliban are still engrossed in suffocating Afghan women. Education for girls in secondary school and women in university was banned…
Afghanistan or ‘Isolation-istan’?
IN July of this year, while the world was busy with so many other things, a group of Afghan children were in the fields near the village of Bolak Wandi…
Pakistan’s Afghan dilemma
ONCE again Pakistan has warned the Taliban authorities in Kabul about the consequences of attacks the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is conducting from across the border. In the most strongly worded…
Brotherly Afghanistan?
ON September 7, Pakistan defeated Afghanistan in a thrilling cricket match in Sharjah. The Afghan popular reaction to this defeat was intense, and puzzling. Why did the Afghan people exhibit…
Our Afghan policy
“BOTH [the US and Pakistan] are on the same page that there’s no military solution in Afghanistan and we are working hard to bring peace to the country,” said Prime…
Afghan reconciliation process
IT was not entirely surprising that even while President Donald Trump spoke about Kashmir in his opening remarks, Prime Minister Imran Khan used the opportunity of meeting with President Trump…
