President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri in a US drone strike.The problem is that’s only half of the truth; the other half...
A child is treated at the malnutrition department of Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul. Photo: AFP / Bilal Guler / Anadolu Agency
On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets....
The stunning disclosure late Tuesday in Brussels that the US is working on a “road map” for recognition to the Taliban Government will take a lot of people by surprise but it could have been expected sooner rather than...
A paradigm shift in jihadist thinking suggests that the US invasion of Afghanistan may prove to have achieved more than many counterterrorism experts would want policymakers and military strategists to believe.
Similarly, the paradigm shift also hints at the possibility...
Photo Credit Joel Heard
“The disaster the people of Afghanistan have endured over decades is beyond human imagination and the plight of the people has multiplied with big power games in Eurasia, which eventually resulted in the Taliban take over,”...
Days after the Taliban drove into Kabul on August 15, its representatives started making inquiries about the “location of assets” of the central bank of the nation, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), which are known to total about $9 billion....
Prince Khalid bin Salman may not have planned it that way but the timing of his visit to Moscow last week and message to Washington resounded loud and clear.
The Saudi deputy defence minister was signalling by not postponing the...
Now that they are in control of all of Afghanistan, that too without the anticipated accompaniment of a bloodbath, the Taliban should be facing the same predicament that the US did in their midst for 20 years before exiting...
By John Pilger / Globetrotter
As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.In 1978, a liberation movement led...
Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) is organizing a Special Lecture and Discussion on “Afghanistan: Geopolitics of Impasse” in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR). The Web-Lecture—scheduled to be held at 7.00 PM...
