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Political and Security Uncertainty Slow Down Afghanistan’s Economic Recovery
Afghanistan faces a sluggish economic recovery from COVID-19 amid continued political uncertainties and possible decline in international aid, says the World Bank in its...
Inclusion of Ethnicity in ID Card: A Bone of Contention in Afghanistan
The recent addition of 45 ethnic groups in the national database of identification card at the National Statistics and Information Authority in Afghanistan has...
Pakistan Army’s ‘Good Taliban’ Policy Unlikely to Change
One year after Pakistan’s most prized “Good Taliban” asset, the former Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, ‘escaped’ from the military’s custody, the Pakistan...
A look at Afghanistan’s Regional Diplomacy in the Transformation Decade (2014-2024)
Regionalism has played an important and fundamental role in the post-Taliban foreign policy of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's location at the center of turbulent regional subsystems...
Ancestral Lineage of Hazaras: from Afghanistan to Pakistan
While the origins of Hazaras are much debated, opinions differ when it comes to the ancestral lineage of Hazara community. According to some historians,...
Huge blast on the Afghanistan-Iran border
On Saturday 13 February the Islam Qala reception center owned by the IOM was demolished at the border between Afghanistan and Iran, leading to...
‘Disturbing spike’ in Afghan civilian casualties after peace talks began
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan witnessed a sharp rise since peace negotiations started in September last year, even though overall deaths and injuries dropped in...
Fire at Afghan-Iranian border hits vital humanitarian assistance
A catastrophic fire on Saturday, at a border between Afghanistan and Iran has damaged an UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reception centre, stalling...
Afghanistan: 65 media workers, rights defenders killed since 2018
Sixty-five journalists, media professionals and human rights defenders were killed in Afghanistan between 1 January 2018 and 31 January 2021, with 11 losing their...
The functionality of Indian diplomatic pragmatism in Afghan political equation
India and Afghanistan are two oldest friends, and their friendly relationship touches the Bronze Age Civilization, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE. According...