by Jafar Rasouli Jafar Rasouli was formerly International Relation Advisor to President Hamid Karzai. —————————————— Political solution in Afghanistan is the Afghans’ option. Even though, the progress may be slowly, however, it will be steadily. Since several years ago, Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, has been personally devoting huge efforts, at least through initial attempts, to [...]

by Parwiz Noorzad King Amanullah’s modernization process did not succeed because he mostly ignored the radical religious context to which he wanted to bring change. In most cultures, when something new is introduced, it is first rejected and the innovator is punished. Many rulers tried to bring change and modernize Afghanistan; a country with ancient traditions, [...]

by Mojtaba Salem History is the continuation of a dialectical conflict between the oppressed and the oppressor. History is the tragic continuation of the stories about human struggles against the imposed oppressive structures of each age. The analysis of the Great Game, a period over which British imperialism competed with Russian hegemony in the cultural [...]

by Habibullah Athaee This piece discusses the initiations behind the establishment of the Shola-e Jawid, its emergence as Afghanistan’s most influential leftist party at a particular time and the reasons behind the movement’s success and finally its downfall. Taking a glance at the events that happened in 1960s around the globe, we can recall the [...]

by Abrahim Rasouli It’s sad to hear that he was sentenced to 19 years in jail–Hossein Derakhshan, known as “Hoder.” He’s an Iranian blogger; a controversial one. He is called “the father of Persian blogging.” He was criticizing Iranian regime, but suddenly became a pro-Iranian government. After that, he visited Israel. He did know if [...]

“Spare them, no profit; remove them, no loss,” (Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime 4) the parlance of the Khmer Rouge, a military group in the twentieth century, which recalls silence, genocide, massacre, torture, death, and solitary confinement of eight million Cambodians, in a “prison camp state” (Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime 9) known as Democratic Kampuchea (DK).

by Said Mohammad Azam Eqbal Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is considered to be fueling fighting, violence, and corruption in the country. Since late 2001, after post-Taliban administration was inaugurated, the Afghan government has committed itself to fight against cultivation, production, and trafficking of narcotics. The government with the help of international community has launched various [...]

by Abdul Wahab Saifi In today’s world all Muslims are considered as terrorist and the fact behind this reason are the attacks of 11 September. If we go back to human history, terrorist acts existed in all time in all regions of the world. The first terrorist organization appeared was the Zealots of Judea, which [...]

by Zahra Rasouli U.S. foreign policy has a critical effect in the stability of East Asia. With the rise of China, it’s more important for the United States on how it will act on the Taiwan issue and how it will arrange its relations with countries in the region like Japan. In analyzing the U.S. [...]