The papers are full of suggestions on what US President Joe Biden should do about his country’s seemingly perennial involvement in Afghanistan. None are particularly useful, in that they ignore the central premise that a nation state long mauled,...
US President Joe Biden (R) called Afghanistan President Ghani to assure US will defend his government, July 23, 2021
If only America’s presidents exercised the option to do muscle-flexing in the White House gym, the world would have been a...
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....
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
Photograph Source: Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Fahey – Public Domain
It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone. Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail tucked between their legs, Australia is now wondering if it...
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...
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....
