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Chief Executive Abdullah and former president Hamid Karzai, slammed President Ghani after his administration officials and close supporters opposed ‘reduction in violence’ plan, which has been offered by the Taliban. In an interview with the BBC Persian, Karzai said that the government insistence on ceasefire will prevent intra-Afghan peace talks.…

In July 2019, President Ghani appointed Shahrzad Akbar as chairperson of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. Kabul Now has talked to Ms. Akbar, inquiring what changes the country’s human rights commission has gone through and what challenges it is facing. Question:  Six months ago when you appointed to chair the…

In a general assembly held Wednesday, January 22, the Afghan parliament approved a national budget of 428.4 billion afghanis for the next fiscal year (1399) after nearly a month-long assessment. 289 billion afghanis is allocated to operating budget and another 139 billion afghanis to development budget. According to the Ministry…

“A book can shape up common imaginaries among a group of people who study a book in circle study, they can make common vocabularies which consolidate social solidarity,” says Saeeda Massud, a PhD candidate who is working on her thesis. When I first came to Afghanistan to do research on…

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States are marred with a fueling history of regional hegemony and contra adversarial global ambitions. Once a formidable ally to that of the Shah in Tehran, the United States cut off all diplomatic ties with the country, following its abduction of diplomats…

She could not have imagined that one day she would become a famous medical doctor and a renowned rights activist when in a sunny April day her father took her on rear rack of his Indian bicycle to enroll her in a primary school. “My father took me to the…

The Afghan government has founded a new committee to coordinate peace efforts. Chaired by Abdul Salam Rahimi, state minister for peace, the committee, titled as Senior Committee for Coordinating Peace Affairs, is tasked to direct peace related issues. The Afghan government have put many efforts to lead peace efforts since…

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the incumbent Afghan president, left Kabul today, Tuesday, January 21, to attend the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting that would be held on January 21-24 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Before his departure, Mr. Ghani said in a statement that he would meet with the president of…

Findings by a parliamentary delegation that recently visited the western Farah province suggest that weapons, munitions, and equipment of Afghan security and defense forces are widely retailed in Taliban black markets, locally known as Friday markets, in different districts of the province. The province started to become insecure and subject…

We had many derams, working to make them true, Zainab, Mahmoud’s widow, says, lamenting how the brutal Afghan war killed her husband. “We got married but life did not give us chance to live a life we were dreaming,” she says. Zainab was a second year student at department of…