By Ejaz Ahmed

The Afghans need to pick up the spade and start doing their own digging — they must come out of the war economy mindset that facilitates aid money perpetually.

Over the last 18 years sin...

Professor Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh's remarks at the second international symposium of “Herat School of Security”

From security from above to security from below

We are witnessing an unsettling amount of...

By M. Ashraf Haidari

Afghanistan has experimented with different forms of government since its emergence as a modern nation-state. From absolute and constitutional monarchies to the first republic and communist/Marxist regimes, never has Afgha...

By Dr. Yaqub Ibrahimi

In the six rounds of bilateral talks between Zalmai Khalilzad and the Taliban, there was no promising prospect for Afghanistan. Khalilzad’s diplomacy and the so-called Qatar process have had three clear outcomes: th...