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By SEDIQ ZALIQ A week ago President Karzai issued a presidential decree calling on kuchis to leave the embattled districts of Behsood and Dimerdad in Maidan Wardak province to end clashes there between nomads and local residents. There is still no ...
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By NASIBA ALIMYAAR There are an estimate one million households in the capital, but there is just one family court and the system is strained. Petitioners say that cases are stuck in limbo, lying unresolved for months and years because of a lack of...
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By MASOUD AHMADI Herat residents are calling on officials to shut down unlicensed vendors who sell prescription drugs. Residents say the medicines peddled by street vendors and others are cheap, making them attractive to the poor and illiterate, wh...
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- IDREES DANIEL I started writing this column exactly five days after the release of a presidential decree that called on kuchis to leave the Behsood and Dimerdad districts in Maidan Wardak province where they have forced local residents out of thei...
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Our strategy and tactics in Afghanistan, both of which make sense in theory, no longer apply. By ANN MARLOWE National Review Online The classic defense of our involvement in Afghanistan is that we need to make sure that Afghanistan never agai...
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Last week the Taliban organized three separate and significant assaults on Coalition Forces. The first was a coordinated attack on Bagram Airbase, followed by a suicide attack in Kabul and an attack on the Kandahar Airfield. The attacks highlight ...
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By AKBAR ROSTAMI Schoolgirls and teachers who fell ill in recent weeks in Kabul after reporting a suspicious odor in their classrooms complain that the government and security agencies have not responded sufficiently to the attacks. Teachers, stud...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ Soon after a primary list of registered candidates for this fall's general election was made public, the complaints starting coming in. According to the Electoral Complaints Commission, 310 complaints were filed by and against candid...
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By NASEEBA ALIMYAAR The much-anticipated digital national identification cards will be distributed starting next year, the Interior Ministry reported. Implementation of the new ID system was delayed by funding shortages. Ministry officials s...
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- IDREES DANIEL It is not wise to devalue our own blood News that the Iranian government executed a conflicting number of Afghan citizen has elicited a range of reactions inside Afghanistan. Citizens and political figures have protested, some media ...
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By MAUREEN DOWD NY Times Everybody here lies. But with the arrival of Hamid Karzai, the mendacity blossomed into absurdity. The question for the Obama White House is not whether it can grow to appreciate the caped capo who runs Afghanistan. (Pre...
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Months of crisis between President Karzai and the leaders of the U.S. and Britain have come to an end, or somewhat to an end. President Karzai's trip to both countries has been lauded by the state media and independent pro-government outlets as a su...
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By NASIBA ALEMYAR With four major telecom carriers, there are now more than 12 million mobile phone subscribers across the country, according to data by the Ministry of Communications. All that talking comes with some drawbacks, some subscribers s...
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By AKBAR ROSTAMI Just as lecture was underway for a junior class of journalism majors, a woman entered the classroom and started begging at the top of her voice. "Brothers, please help me," the woman named Laila told the class while weeping. "I...
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By SEDIQ ZALIQ A Taliban spokesman has rejected the idea that its leaders will accept a proposal offering them exile if they agree to stop fighting against the government. The Guardian first reported on a document, which states that insurgent l...
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- IDREES DANIEL It was reported a couple months that prior to his U.S. trip President Karzai would send to Parliament a new list of candidates for his open cabinet posts. That appears now to have been just a rumor. The election ended ten mo...
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Officials in Washington warmly welcomed President Hamid Karzai on Monday as he started a four-day visit in the U.S. On the surface it appears that ties between President Karzai and U.S. officials have improved. Behind the scenes it's probably stil...
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By HAMID KARZAI Nearly nine years ago, terrorists killed thousands of civilians and destroyed iconic symbols of American prosperity and progress. Before that, the same terrorists had taken Afghanistan hostage and had killed and tortured our people...
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