U.S., Taliban Sign Historic Agreement In Qatar — Six Months Later And The Violence Hasn’t Stopped.
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to depose the Taliban regime, an ultraconservative organization who sheltered Al-Qaeda and refused to hand over Osama Bin Laden in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. Now, nearly 20 years later, Washington has signed an agreement in Doha, with very same group they’ve been fighting for years.
The deal, which paves the way for a complete US withdrawal, is contingent that the Taliban promise to sever ties with any foreign terrorist groups, ensuring that they would not…
This series is based on the recollections of Hashmat Ghani. It spans from his childhood under the Kingdom of Afghanistan, what he saw and what he learned about the history leading up to the time he grew up in Kabul, the political turmoils that led to the communist takeover and eventual Soviet occupation through to the civil war and parts of present-day Afghanistan. The series is an examination and analysis of the last four decades of Afghan history through the eyes of one man who had access to several different segments of society.
By the mid-1960s and the 1970s, this is how Jalalabad looked: A new section called Reg-e Shahmad Khan, had been planned as a new city, construction had already begun.
The majority of Kabul’s elite started building winter villas there. Before that time, and as the new section was being built, the old city of Jalalabad, which was basically the small commercial sector at that time, was almost entirely owned by the Afghan Hindus and the Afghan Sikhs. They controlled pretty much entire business sector of Jalalabad. They were the only ones that were active in business.
In the summers, Jalalabad…
A specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, which describe its job as “the global guardian of health” with 194 member states, an employed staff of 7,000 spread across six regional offices, and 150 field offices. The perception when people think of the World Health Organization (WHO) is a strong, centralized international organization, that protects the world from deadly viruses and diseases. In reality, it doesn’t live up to its name by any means. They are a very small organization and less of a global disease fighting army and more of a coordinating body for international…
This series is based on the recollections of Hashmat Ghani. It spans from his childhood under the Kingdom of Afghanistan, what he saw and what he learned about the history leading up to the time he grew up in Kabul, the political turmoils that led to the communist takeover and eventual Soviet occupation through to the civil war and parts of present-day Afghanistan. The series is an examination and analysis of the last four decades of Afghan history through the eyes of one man who had access to several different segments of society.
By the early 1960s, after three decades of monarchy, the country started changing, especially after the constitution of 1963. By that time, Prime Minister Sardar Daoud Khan, the final member of the royal family, had given up the prime ministership.
Since its inception in 1947, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has had a dysfunctional and disappointing relationship with the United States of America. The highs have never been able to justify the lows. Though Washington and Islamabad have had diplomatic relations throughout Pakistan’s 73-year existence, it took the United States two months to formally recognize Pakistan as an independent state. Portraying itself as one of the most progressive Muslim countries with a strong centralized government and army It didn’t take long for the Pakistani establishment to grow disenchanted with Washington’s commitment. Many elites felt that the U.S. betrayed them by…
The Afghan war, which has been going on for almost four decades, remains one of the most grueling conflicts of our time. By taking many thousands of lives and destroying the fate of generations, it depletes the Afghan nation and prevents the country from embarking on a path that would lead it to prosperity and development in the future. Therefore, the peace process that began several years ago as negotiations between the Taliban and the United States, with the participation of the most influential states in the region, has an unconditionally positive significance and bright, promising prospects.
However, in spite…
Sultan Ghani
An entrepreneur writing about International Relations, Business, and Foreign Policy.
