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The perpetrators of the massacre of Kabul University students and other atrocities are not only the Taliban and ISIS, but also the US occupiers, the governments of Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the puppet Ghani-Abdullah government.
The bloodthirsty and ignoramus Taliban have targeted (...)
We, the undersigned international community of scholars, express our condemnation of the recent attacks targeting students and faculty in Afghanistan. These brutal attacks are part of a series of violent assaults against the innocent civilians of Afghanistan who are the primary victims of a (...)
The war in Afghanistan is already the longest in US history. And now Trump is considering sending more troops.
The war in Afghanistan is already the longest in US history, spanning sixteen years at a price of at least $1 trillion. As a private citizen, Donald Trump repeatedly condemned the US (...)
The United States has been losing the war in Afghanistan. Whether or not Trump delivers a “surge” of new troops there, he will continue to lose that war.
America’s war in Afghanistan is now in its sixteenth year, the longest foreign war in our history . The phrase “no end in sight” barely covers (...)
At least 80 dead and more than 230 wounded after attack on demonstration by minority group, which makes up 9% of population.
At least 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured after two suicide bombers struck a peaceful protest in Kabul by a Shia minority group.
Responsibility for the (...)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King
Following the blind suicide bombings and killing of our innocent people, now the dreadful massacre of school children in Peshawar, puts on sorrow the heart of every aware and conscientious human being. The ruthless (...)
The extent of these forces seems to be debated in Washington right now. Whether the talks with Taliban are ´successful´ or not, women´s rights are likely to be affected. In fact, they already are.
‘Not all Afghan problems can be blamed on Pakistan (or other foreigners, for that matter), quite a (...)
In the past two decade, Taliban have earned notoriety as perpetrators of massive atrocities. Besides losing ground among their own sympathizers, they are also losing support among rural communities
‘Afghan people view Pakistan’s establishment and its policies with suspicion. They do not trust (...)
KABUL (March 28, 2013):– Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai on March 26. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the (...)
If Petro-dollars have become the backbone of terrorism in Pakistan, Narco-dollars are the major source of funding for the Afghan Taliban. Without eliminating financial networks in both countries, terrorism will remain a force to be reckoned with for a long time to come.
Opium has been a (...)
(New York) – The Afghan government should immediately reverse its suspension of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan for organizing a protest calling for accountability for war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The suspension violates both Afghan law and the rights to freedom of expression, (...)
Breaking the silence on the tyranny of the criminals and traitors of Afghanistan’s recent history, the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan mobilized hundreds of people in Kabul to participate in a rally against those perpetrators of the tragedy marked by April 27, 1978 and April 28, 1992, and for (...)
So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we’re going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi one, which is a war at 60-a-day fatalities (pretty much equal with Syria’s daily death toll, though we can’t make that (...)
Ever since US Sergeant Robert Bales surrendered after calmly massacring Afghan women and children, he has been depicted as a man under unusual personal circumstances. A high-ranking US official told the New York Times: “When it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and (...)
Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, Office of the Prime Minister, F6/5 Cabinet Division, Cabinet Block, Constitution Avenue, Islamabad, Pakistan 16 December 2011
Re: Pakistan - Murder of school headmaster and human rights defender Mr Zarteef Afridi
Dear Prime Minister,
Front Line Defenders and (...)
This is a key moment. President Obama is about to make a hugely consequential decision regarding US troop commitments in Afghanistan, America’s longest war. The response of the progressive community should be a big factor in his consideration, since he will need the antiwar vote in next year’s (...)
Many of the Canadian military, police, and civilian personnel who risk their lives in Afghanistan truly believe they are fighting a just war of good against evil. But America’s and Britain’s claims that the unsanctioned unilateral invasion of Afghanistan, which began the Global War on Terror, was (...)
On November 11, Remembrance Day, Canada’s prime minister Stephen Harper announced that his government has unilaterally decided, without even a debate or vote in Parliament, to extend Canada’s military “mission” in Afghanistan for three more years, until 2014. It subsequently joined in a unanimous (...)
Taliban are not by any means a representation of pashtuns as what we are witnessing today in the shape of the barbaric Talibanized militant values are not of hospitality and sanctuary as well as regard for women, children and family.
Antonio Gramsci, an Italian (1891-1937) Marxist thinker, has (...)
Of a planned 6,835 polling stations, only 5,897 can be opened. Neither the Afghan army nor ISAF is willing to guarantee the safety of the remaining 938 — fully 14 percent of the planned total.
Unlike 2005, the Afghan general elections scheduled for September 18----second such exercise since US (...)
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