Long live the brave Afghan people !
I was always a great admirer of the brave Afghan people, and have written several articles about them Long Live Afghanistan Pathans King Amanullah of Afghanistan is one of my…
Afghanistan
A Glimmer of Hope for Afghanistan’s Girls and Women
KABUL – A 2023 survey conducted by three United Nations agencies in Afghanistan revealed a grim reality: nearly one-fifth of Afghan women had not interacted with anyone outside their immediate…
UN-Taliban Talks: Analyzing the Stalemate over Women’s Rights
The United Nations' recent talks with the Taliban have brought to the forefront the complex and often contentious issue of women's rights in Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid's assertion that…
Ravaged by Floods: Afghanistan’s Desperate Plight
Unprecedented flash floods wreak havoc in Afghanistan, leaving devastation in their wake and plunging the nation into crisis. Nearly 315 people have died, and over 1,600 have suffered injuries in…
Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees
Across the globe, refugees, always treated as the pox of public policy, continue to feature in news reports describing anguish, despair and persistent persecution. If they are not facing barbed…
Sustained, Extensive Campaign Needed to Prevent Deportation of A Million Afghan Refugees from Pakistan in December and January
The deportation of several hundred thousand Afghan refugees from Pakistan at a very short notice in harsh winter conditions has been condemned internationally by several leading humanitarian and human rights…
Amnesty International Calls for Immediate Halt of Forced Deportation of Afghan Refugees from Pakistan
The many-sided serious problems and risks being faced by nearly 1.7 million Afghan refugees who are without the documents considered essential by the Pakistan government have been the subject of…
Why Pakistan Should Immediately Stop the Forced Deportation of Afghan Refugees
A humanitarian catastrophe is in the making as Pakistan has started preparing for the forced deportation of nearly 1.5 million Afghan refugees. According to official Pakistani estimates there are nearly…
Afghans’ Mass Exodus As Deadline To Leave Pakistan Arrives
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced detention and deportation on Wednesday, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. Islamabad has given 1.7…
USA Should Return 7 Billion Dollars to Afghanistan Now as Earthquakes Aggravate Humanitarian Crisis
A series of earthquakes in Afghanistan have recently killed thousands of people and caused other massive damage, particularly in Herat. In the last quake loss of human lives could be…
Avoiding the War on Terror would have saved over 10 million lives at home and abroad
The peace movement in various parts of the world has emphasized in various contexts that if the huge amounts spent on various wars had been spent instead on meeting essential…
Biden White House Did Not Foresee Chaotic Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Reveals New Book
The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 was unforeseen by the Biden administration as late as the beginning of that month, according to a new book by Atlantic…
The Afghanistan Lithium Great Game
While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound to be permanent. Since then,…
The Taliban and the Islamic State Continue to Fight for Afghanistan’s Future
The Taliban’s ability to lead Afghanistan remains questionable and ongoing instability has provided the Islamic State the opportunity for expansion. On April 25, 2023, U.S. officials confirmed that the Taliban had killed…
Calculated Misrepresentations: The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Succeeding administrations have a chronic habit of blaming their predecessors. The Biden administration has been most particular on the issue, taking every chance to attack former President Donald Trump for…
Calculated Exoneration: Command Responsibility and War Crimes in Afghanistan
Being the scapegoat of tribal lore cast out with the heavy weight of sins remains a popular political motif. Supposedly noble soldiers, by way of example, are punished for not…
Afghan women need your solidarity
Today, Afghan women live under the most misogynistic regime, where they are deprived of all their human and civil rights. For this reason, Afghan women activists formed their own protest…
NGOs decision to continue providing relief in Afghanistan is justified
When the Taliban regime in Afghanistan recently banned women from working in NGOs, several of them decided to stop working in this country, but later some of them reconsidered this…
Prince Harry’s Great Afghan Shooting Party
What to make of it? History is filled with the deeds of blood-thirsty princes bold in ambition and feeble of mind. Massacres make the man, though there is often little…
IMSD condemns the Taliban’s shutting of university gates to Muslim women
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) unequivocally condemns the blatantly misogynist decree of Taliban that for all practical purposes has effectively banned women’s education in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban have…
Don’t Forget the People of Afghanistan
An update on the hunger hot spots of the world issued by the FAO-World Food Program in September 2022 drew particular attention to the serious situation in Afghanistan. This review…
Millions of Afghans Are Starving as US Stalls on Returning Central Bank Funds
In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed—or concrete…
Taliban Bring Back Executions And Amputations In Afghanistan
Executions, stonings and amputations are possible punishments for crimes once more in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada ordered Afghan judges to impose Sharia-law punishments for certain crimes, according…
Hazara’s Rally in the Aftermath of Horrific School Bombing
On Oct. 8, members of the Hazara and Afghan communities in Washington, DC held a rally in McPherson Square to protest the killing of 35 schoolgirls inside the Kaaj Educational…
As floods follow earthquakes and drought in Afghanistan, the USA should immediately return its billions
Highly destructive floods devastated parts of Afghanistan in August. This was preceded by a prolonged drought, stated to be the worst in decades, and two earthquakes this year. As an…
As Millions Suffer, the US Needs to End the Collective Punishment of the Afghan People
A year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war and occupation in Afghanistan. With the Taliban functionally in charge, the country faces a deteriorating humanitarian crisis…
Taliban Break Up Afghan Women’s Protest in Kabul
Taliban fighters violently dispersed dozens of female protesters in Kabul. About 40 Afghan women marched through the capital city demanding rights, before the Taliban broke the protest march up by…
Afghanistan earthquake exposes disaster caused by decades of US occupation
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in a remote area of Afghanistan has killed at least 1,000 people and injured at least 1,500. While the worst affected area is the mountainous Paktika province,…
Earthquake: USA Must Return ‘Stolen’ 3.5 billion dollars to Afghanistan
An earthquake which has been called the deadliest in two decades hit Afghanistan on June 22. The latest reports indicate that nearly 1000 people have died and the death toll…
Earthquake Kills 900+ in Afghanistan
A powerful earthquake in Afghanistan killed more than 900 people and injured hundreds more on Wednesday, flattening homes and devastating entire villages in a nation already ravaged by decades of…
India`s non-engagement in Afghanistan and its implications
The government of India shut down the consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest city in the north of Afghanistan, considering a threat to the embassy staff from the Taliban which took…
Has India lost grip over Afghanistan?
India has been sending wheat and life –saving medicines to the people of Afghanistan through Attari-wagah integrated post since the Taliban leaders took over the reins of government…
Starving a People, Committing a Genocide: Biden’s Sanctions on Afghanistan
When the United States stole $7 billion from Afghanistan on February 11, that was no mere crime of robbery. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity that…
Taliban took over a bankrupt nation
American left Afghanistan and consequently the Taliban took over a bankrupt nation in August 31, 2021. The United States never succeeded in inducing good governance in Afghanistan or persuading Pakistan…
Paralysing Afghanistan: Washington’s Regime Change Agenda
Nation states are habitually doomed to defeat their best interests. Conditions of mad instability are fostered. Arms sales take place, regimes get propped up or abandoned, and the people under…
US steals billions in Afghan bank funds
In an action that combines brazen theft, imperialist brutality and unlimited hypocrisy, the Biden administration announced Friday that it will seize control of $7 billion in Afghanistan financial assets, held…
The Terrible Fate Facing the Afghan People
On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. One of the tweets, which included a photograph of a child lying in a…
‘Thank You for Hearing Our Afghan Pain’
People in the United States must recognize the suffering their country continues inflicting in Afghanistan. During visits to Kabul, Afghanistan, over the past decade, I particularly relished lingering over breakfasts…
US pips regional states at race for Kabul
In a hugely consequential advisory, the US Treasury Department quietly signalled on Wednesday that it was “tweaking” the sanctions against the Haqqani Network. The international banks can transfer money to…
The West co-opts the Taliban
The three-day conclave in Oslo on January 23-25 for interaction for a core group of Western diplomats with Taliban officials marks a new phase in the political situation in Afghanistan.…
Souring of Taliban’s relations with Pakistan
External interference in Afghanistan has reappeared much sooner than one would have expected after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in August. In a familiar pattern, the rumour mill has become…
Are Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan?
On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, “the…
Afghans protest Washington’s starvation strategy
Protesters have marched through the streets of Kabul over the past weeks demanding that the United States lift its financial blockade and end its illegal seizure of Afghanistan’s financial assets,…
20 Years Unable to Defeat Taliban Now USA Freezes Afghanistan’s $9B Bank Deposits Causing Starvation
According to an analysis by the United Nations World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization, 8.7 million people are nearing famine — putting Afghanistan on the brink of a…
No Time to Rescue
There have now emerged quite unbelievable inside pictures of the colossal failure of the British government in rescuing its friends, allies, and ordinary Afghans fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.…
Afghanistan: Destination unknown yet
Unknown is Afghanistan’s trajectory of developments. None of the players, external and internal, knows the highly-contested land’s flight path. All of the players are unsure of possible impact of each…
Taliban: One Hundred Days of Solitude
As the Taliban completes its first hundred days in power, the Western powers are groping for a face-saving formula to engage with the authorities in Kabul with some modicum of…
US recognition of Taliban Government will be a game changer
The stunning disclosure late Tuesday in Brussels that the US is working on a “road map” for according recognition to the Taliban Government will take a lot of people by…
Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?
I waited almost three months for some acknowledgement, but it never came. Not a bottle of champagne. Not a congratulatory note. Not an email of acknowledgement. Not one media request. Authors…
“Now Is the Time to Be Angry” – Remembering Forgotten Afghanistan
I know, I know. It’s the last thing you want to hear about. Twenty years of American carnage in Afghanistan was plenty for you, I’m sure, and there are so many other…
Taliban Government gains traction
All indications are that the regional states are preparing to accord recognition to the Taliban government. The meeting of regional states and Taliban officials in the so-called Moscow Format last…
A destroyed Afghanistan has been an imperialist priority for 200 years
As the British before them, US imperial propaganda treats itself as the victim and those they invaded and occupied as the criminal On August 18th, shortly after the Taliban took…
Taliban is the winner at Moscow conference
The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on Wednesday has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. The salience of the consensus opinion is four-fold, as…
Afghanistan, Taliban, Women and Pakistan
The situation in Afghanistan is yet to calm down. Women are facing hard time and threats. The Taliban are also wearing down with problems of governance. Internal Divisions, Even Resentment…
Afghanistan: Moscow meeting is a landmark event
The United States regretted its inability to take part in the talks on Afghanistan in Moscow this week. The Russian side was pinning hopes on a meeting of the exclusive Troika Plus…
Despite Taliban Rule, Feminists Must Not Abandon Afghan Women
The situation is complex and so feminists should not take the simplistic view that a policy of non-cooperation with the Taliban is the way to support women. Since the Taliban…
Russia draws red lines for US
Moscow has categorically stated that it will not accept a US military presence in the Central Asian region. This reiteration has come at the level of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister…
The U.S. Killer Drone Program Stays Afloat on the Back of Lies and Pentagon Propaganda
A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties. On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States…
Afghanistan Tackles the Islamic State
On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s…
Afghan Women Embracing Financial Freedom with Cryptocurrency
With most women not permitted to possess bank accounts in Afghanistan, cryptocurrency has become a critical lifeline for women fleeing the country. A media report said: The fall of Kabul…
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