Opinions




How Afghanistan can get benefit from One Belt, One Road Project?

  Saturday, January 30, 2021

By Dr. Sayed Yahya Akhlaqi 

There are more than two hundred nations whose flags fly outsides the UN headquarters. Every nation aspires to become a developed country but the reality is that there are only a few dozen nations...

The Retrenchment Syndrome: A Response to “Come Home, America?”

  Saturday, December 26, 2020

By H. R. McMaster

In the decades after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, the simplistic but widely held belief that the war had been unjustifi...

The long-drawn violence in Afghanistan

  Wednesday, December 23, 2020

By Syed Akhtar Ali Shah 

Taliban must agree to a political setup providing chance for all the political groups to participate in the elections

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Afghanistan Peace Negotiation belongs in Afghanistan, not Qatar, Russia, or China

  Monday, December 14, 2020

By Michael Rubin

While American diplomats continue to spin U.S.-Taliban talks as aiming for a peace deal, Afghans are more realistic: They see Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s diplomatic process as aiming not at peace but rathe...

Islamic State Wilayat Khorasan: Phony Caliphate or bona fide province?

  Wednesday, December 02, 2020

By Siddhant Kishore

While there is raging debate about whether the Taliban and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) are foes or operational allies, there is little doubt that ISKP c...