Opinions




No Safe Return: The Case Against Deporting Afghan Refugees

  Wednesday, July 02, 2025

By Amina Azarm Nezami

As deportation campaigns intensify across countries like Pakistan, Iran, Turkiye, and parts of Europe, the reality facing Afghan refugees is growing more perilous by the day. Millions who have been forced to flee persecution, war, and systemic...

Iran Scapegoats Afghan Refugees After Israel Conflict

  Tuesday, July 01, 2025

By Dr. Davood Moradian

A Mass Deportation and Intensified Anti-Afghan Sentiment Are Placing Afghans in Iran in Peril

The ceasefire between Iran and Israel elicited a collective sigh of relief from millions of citizens in both nations; however,...

The Iran-Israel Confrontation and the Security of Afghanistan

  Monday, June 16, 2025

By: Abdul Naser Noorzad

To begin, it is important to note that Afghanistan is surrounded by four security belts or zones from the north, east, south, and west—each imposing specific security dynamics upon the country. But broadly speaking, regardless of geographic...

We Owe Afghan Women a Chance to Make Their Own Destiny

  Friday, April 18, 2025

By Annie Pforzheimer and Nazila Jamshidi

“We urge the United Nations to bring Afghan women to the negotiating table, to be their own advocates and create their own destiny, before it is too late.”

March marked t...

Pakistan and the Strategic asset of Haqqanis

  Wednesday, March 26, 2025

By Abdul Naser Noorzad

I will dedicate this analysis to the question of why Haqqani is not the person we imagine him to be? And how the optimistic perception formed about him distorts and misleads the analysis beyond the future events in Afghanistan

Haqqani is...