Opinions
US Peace Envoy to Afghanistan Must Stop Admiring Taliban to Succeed in Mission
By Mohammad Naser Sidiqee
Over the last couple of weeks, the Afghan government and E.U. officials have been scrambling to de-escalating tensions between U.S. Peace Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan Nat...
US-Taliban talks: Where will they lead Afghanistan?
By Hashim Wahdatyar
“The Taliban will run Afghanistan’s future government and encourage other Afghans to join them. The Afghan national army will collapse, and the Taliban will form another from scratch.” That was the declara...
Why Is Zalmay Khalilzad Such a Controversial Figure in Afghanistan?
By Sayed Ziafatullah Saeedi
Khalilzad’s history is worth recounting, to give context to recent chafing at his tactics in pursuing peace.
When the name Zalmay Khalilzad appeared on the news as a potential nominee for President T...
The Missing Book in President Ghani’s Bookshelf
By Aziz Koshan
A 2500 years old book roughly fifty pages is missing from President Ashraf Ghani’s seven thousand book collection. It...
Afghanistan: Difficulties of Pivoting from a Highly Centralized to Decentralized Government
By Armis Sadri
Nearly two decades into our longest war, the United States is in the process of withdrawing from