Ghani’s blame game
In a TV interview, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani emphasized the historic bonds between Pakistan and Afghanistan and the need for both countries to work together to fight terrorism. But, in…
New realities in Afghanistan
The death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a drone strike in Balochistan near the border with Afghanistan has raised more questions than it answers with…
US army to stay in Afghanistan till 2017: Obama
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday announced maintaining the current level of US forces in Afghanistan till 2017 and leaving at least half of the troops after that while running…
Afghanistan’s last
chance for peace Amid growing Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, efforts to revive the peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban factions have been launched under the Quadrilateral Coordination Group…
Afghanistan’s buried minerals a source of wealth and strife
A group of potato farmers sat cross-legged in a velvet-carpeted madrassa, pensively mulling assembling an armed militia to guard Afghanistan's largest iron-ore reserve buried in jagged Hindu Kush ridges flanking…
VIEW POINT: Afghan President’s outburst
Talking to journalists in the aftermath of a string of Taliban bombings in civilian areas that left scores of people dead and hundreds wounded during the last few days, Afghan…
Afghanistan: fighting the odds
AS the fighting season in Afghanistan opened, the hopes generated during the early months of the Ashraf Ghani-led unity government have visibly dissipated. The Afghan Taliban have launched a series…
New heroes in Afghanistan
An Afghan National Army soldier Esa Khan has been hailed as a hero in Afghanistan for shooting dead six of the seven Taliban suicide bombers who tried to storm the…
Learning democracy from Afghanistan
It isn’t easy running a coalition government as President Dr Ashraf Ghani has found out since assuming power on September 29, 2014. His unity government with Dr Abdullah, who became…
There is still hope for Afghanistan
International conferences on Afghanistan have almost become an annual event and no longer generate the hope that peace will return to that war-ravaged country anytime soon. Since the ouster of…
