Opinions
Being a badinjan-e rumi is better than not being at all: Reflections on the life of an Afghan Minister
One of my intellectual highlights of 2016 was discovering an autobiography written by a long-serving Afghan Minister. I came across the biography having met during the course...
Afghan peace process — twists and turns
By Syed Akhtar Ali Shah
While the Doha Agreement, brokered between the US and the Taliban, was hailed as a great breakthrough that opened the avenues for peace in Afghanistan, the skeptics called it a deal motivated by the narrow interests of...
Four Priorities for a Global Pandemic Strategy
By Josep Borrell
The world initially met the COVID-19 crisis in an uncoordinated fashion, with too many countries ignoring the warning signs and going it alone. It is now clear that the only way out of it is together.
How to Handle Coronavirus Pandemic in Afghanistan
By Zohra Rasekh
An effective prevention of COVID-19 was stopping the virus from reaching and spreading inside Afghanistan. This was an action that the Afghan government needed to take three months earlier when A...
Only Peace Can Avert a COVID-19 Catastrophe in Afghanistan
By M. Ashraf Haidari
As of this writing, over one million people in 181 countries are confirmed to have been infected by COVID-19 (coronavirus), according to the Johns Hopkins Univers...
