Useful information about Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. This might help those who are making their first trip to Afghanistan. Afghanistan History: Afghanistan originally was governed by different kings, emirs (Commander or general) or shahs (leader, King). Its first state was established on October 1747 in Kandahar by Afghan Military Commander Ahmad Shah Durani. After dead […]
Afghan soldiers are killing American contractors and British troops. The recent news from the field is causing no less than rushed panic in strategy and policy circles: How can we draw down when the team we’re supposed to be handing off to in 2014 is infiltrated through with the enemy? It’s no surprise then that […]
Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Bush administration national security leader, has come out with a sobering critique of the current war in Afghanistan. Off the bat, he discusses how the war has changed from one of necessity to know one of choice. Here’s Haass: The war being waged by […]
Afghanistan has two education systems; the religious and the government. The religious system is taught by Mulas (religious leaders) at masques that includes teaching Quran and provide religious advices. The government system is implemented at schools which is free of charge and is consist of different subjects including religious. Afghanistan does not only have different […]
George Packer’s latest piece in the New Yorker is a must read for anyone interested in Afghanistan and the war, there, boiling over. Packer is sifting through President Obama’s Afghanistan war strategy. He’s interested in parsing through the infighting, the dramatic change in leadership personnel, the wild hedging on Obama’s fruitless partnership with the heroically incompetent Karzai […]
It seems that the day’s reportage always fails to deliver good news. Lives lost and opportunities squandered, squarely pegged in the middle of each New York Times piece, is the mounting price we pay. NATO troops and Afghan sons and daughters, fathers and mothers dead and dying. Today’s bomb attack has added four more casualties […]
Those Bolshevik posters depicting the Russian Orthodox Church as an integral pillar of dictatorship had to wait almost a century for vindication. Ironically, it may come from as surprising an ally as the European Court of Human Rights, to which the museum curators sentenced for hosting anti-religious art have applied to contest their convictions. For […]
Writing day in and day out about the collapse of this and the fall-out from that, it can be difficult to step back and assess where we are in Afghanistan’s broader narrative. I promise you that today, the soldiering attempt to seek some clarity in Afghanistan’s historical trajectory will break your heart. The photographs that […]
First of all, a shout-out to the folks at registan.net, for doing everything well. Here is a great post on how sudden and unexpected the violence was for journalists and scholars of the region, as the region is known for for relative peace. Poverty, but peace. What is so interesting is that no one on […]
How did Russia soften up stubborn Belarus into entering the Customs Union that Lukashenko had so strongly resisted? In part by openly using the media, and specifically NTV, as a tool for diplomatic hardball; disproving all those liberal haters who predicted irrelevance for the formerly critical channel after its takeover by the Kremlin. To send […]
Today’s news of the friendly fire incident reported by the New York Times could not have come at a more inopportune time. Of course, bad news seldom arrives at one’s doorstep at an opportune time. Afghan soldiers waiting to ambush Taliban militants were bombed by NATO war planes. No doubt a grievous result of […]
Like other countries, Afghanistan also celebrates 5th of May “The International World Press Freedom Day”. It is a day to remind the government the duty to respect and uphold the rights to the freedom of press. It’s a day that the country should stand up and say we are democratic and freedom of speech is […]
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