24 January is considered and celebrated as International Education Day. As per UNESCO data, around 258 million children are out of school, 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math around the globe. On December 3, 2018, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution by …
Read More »Editorial: Peace, All Time Priority
Indeed, it’s a good move that the Biden administration has decided to review the Trump dispensation’s peace deal with the Taliban. This comes to check whether the Taliban are honest in the meaningful talks and are also ready to cut ties with other groups, including the al-Qaeda terrorist network. It …
Read More »Editorial: Stick to Talks
War in Afghanistan which is one of the deadliest current conflicts in the world, seems to have entered its most crucial phase as the newly inaugurated U.S. administration led by President Joe Biden is going to take robust and regional diplomatic effort to help the two sides (Afghan and Taliban) …
Read More »Editorial: Afghans’ requests from new US government
Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday amid lots of demands from his administration both inside America and outside the country. He needs to meet these requests to correct what his predecessor Donald Trump could not or did not want to. One …
Read More »Editorial: Growing Disorders
The ongoing deadly war has weakened even shattered the backbone of Afghanistan, where now its people are scrambling with plenty of challenges. For years, the Afghan masses have been caught in one of the worst humanitarian crises as well. The new figures reveal that just over 18 million people in …
Read More »Editorial: Safeguarding Afghan Female Activists
As the US is on the edge of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan to get succeeded its peace agreement with Taliban, ambiguously surrounding the fate of Afghanistan that highly risks the collapse of the past hard-gains. Amid growing uncertainty on the ongoing peace talks in Doha, the capital of Qatar, …
Read More »Editorial: Press Freedom at Risk
Without doubt, media outlets in Afghanistan have flourished after the collapse of the Taliban regime nearly 20 years ago. There are hundreds of media in Kabul and in provinces, plus thousands of social media users who often focus on the current situation of the country. At the outset, media workers …
Read More »Editorial: Lowest Level Since 2001
The US has reduced the number of its troops in Afghanistan to 2,500. This is as part of outgoing U.S. President, Donald Trump’s plan as to what he describes, “Ending the endless war”. The plan has been functionalized despite a congressional prohibition of the move and rising levels of violence …
Read More »Editorial: Good news on cultural activities
The government has recently decided to be serious in maintaining and reconstructing some historical sites and monuments which is good news since the rich culture of Afghanistan had been almost ignored due to war pressures and other problems the government and people of Afghanistan are confronting. The ministry of information …
Read More »Editorial: Deliberate Confusion
What we know so far about the national interests – there is no clear speciation and explanation on it as of today. It seems all the high-profile authorities are somehow talking about observation of the national interest, while attacking others for ignoring this noble cause as just over its narrow …
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