The Prayer of an Afghan Woman

by Dr.Mustafa Kamal Sherwani/ Lucknow,U.P.India sherwanimk@yahoo.com Oh! The Killers of  My Husband and Son! Sitting on the graves of my husband and son, Who fell victim to the savagery of your bullets, My curse would have brought doom for you, But the human passion still reigns my heart. I pray, your wives never see my [...]

Pakistan’s Proxy War in Afghanistan is Hurting it the Most

Americans like to use abbreviations. They like simplifying, which does not come from an inability to master sophisticated thought, but rather from a desire to pursue pragmatism to fix a problem. If American diplomacy came up with the abbreviation “AfPak,” that was not just a simple simplification. On the contrary, it reflected a deeper analysis, [...]

A 19 Year Old Afghan Girl Being Forced to Marry Her Rapist

When the Afghan government announced Dec 1, 2011 that it would pardon a woman who had been imprisoned for adultery after she reported that she had been raped, the decision seemed a clear victory for the many women here whose lives have been ground down by the Afghan justice system. But when the announcement also [...]

ISI’s Secret Pakistan: BBC2 Documentary

ISI provides weapons and training to the Taliban fighting US and British troops in Afghanistan, despite official denials, a BBC documentary quotes some people it claims to be Taliban commanders as alleging. A number of middle-ranking Taliban commanders, it said, revealed the extent of Pakistani support in interviews for the BBC Two documentary series, `Secret [...]

Is Kharotabad in Quetta a Taliban Base?

Kharotabad: A Taliban safe haven By Qaiser Butt October 17, 2011 People in Kharotabad are living in constant fear of possible drone attacks in their neighbourhood, considering that over the past six months, the Afghan and local Taliban seemed to covet this part of Quetta as a veritable ‘vacation spot’. Every four months, Taliban fighters [...]

In Defense of Pakistan’s Pro Haqqani Policy

What does Pakistan really want in Afghanistan? That question has become all the more urgent since Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accused Pakistan of being indirectly responsible for last week’s attack on our embassy in Kabul. Reports of a second possible attack, on Sunday, on the CIA building will, no [...]

Thirty Percent Afghan Girls Trafficked to Pakistan are Sexually Exploited

Afghanistan should develop mechanisms to raise awareness about the dangers of human trafficking, support victims and prosecute perpetrators. It is becoming an alarming problem because a huge number of women and children are vulnerable to trafficking in the country. The victims are exploited both inside and outside the country for forced labour, prostitution, drug selling [...]

Tajik Boy Loving a Hazarra Girl Leads to Riots

A romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities tested a village’s tolerance for more modern whims of the heart and went to show the level of tolerance in Afghanistan and to an extent generally in the Islamic world. The verdict against the teenagers was delivered with brutal speed. In July, a group of men spotted [...]

Sex Trade & Male Prostitution Has Brought Disgrace And Shame To Afghanistan

Child Sex, Bacha Bazi and DynCorp by Musa Khan Jalalzai In recent two e-mails I received from the parents of two teenage girls who were forcefully married to wealthy and powerful Tajik war criminals in Northern Afghanistan, they have painted heart-broken stories of their innocent daughters’ torture, humiliation and imprisonment by their ignorant husbands. Sajida [...]

Life in Afghanistan Much Better Today Than Under Taliban

In winter, a noxious fog sometimes descends onKabulthat is so acrid, you can actually taste it. It’s a toxic brew of fumes from traffic jams and thousands of charcoal fires, and it’s a testament to the fact that in the decade since the fall of the Taliban,Kabul’s population has gone up six fold, from 500,000 [...]