Is killing Taliban a good idea? Intensified military activity has failed, argueJohn BraithwaiteandAli Wardak. It's time for a ceasefire 07 December 2011 TEN years ago, a conference in the German city of Bonn agreed on a roadmap � the Bonn Agr menu_book

From the perspective of a political observer it is so interesting to look at Afghanistan while you recall the fictitious Jumanji game as depicted in the film of the same name. The result of moves of the pieces on the board could only be destru menu_book

The signing of a strategic treaty with the United States is an issue of great importance and perhaps Karzai thought it was too big a decision for him to make by himself or together with a parliament that is still to f menu_book

Read the full document in PDF STATE AND NON-STATE JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN AFGHANISTAN: THE NEED FOR SYNERGY By: ALI WARDAK* INTRODUCTION The long Afghan conflict has resulted in an extensive destruction of Afghanistan?s state justice institu menu_book

Policy wise the US finds itself at an important crossroads when its conflict in Iraq comes to a definitive end and its desire to pull out of Afghanistan has prompted preparations to that end. At this juncture menu_book

Even before Indian independence in 1947 and the official recognition of Pakistan by Afghanistan, Indians looked at Afghanistan with awe and admiration. Earlier in 1919, King Amanullah of Afghanistan had managed to fight th menu_book

Literally, there are hundreds of things the Afghan government has not done and there are hundreds more that it has done in a wrong way. Apparently, people in government faced with the hard realities say: if we had.... Because " If we had..." is no so menu_book

In Afghanistan, the U.S. military disposes of garbage in open burn pits. Are toxic clouds from these sites making everyone sick? Guernica Magazine / By J. Malcolm Garcia August 18, 2011 Their shelves hold Army pants, boots and knives menu_book

Complex, convoluted, mixed up, confused, upside down, checked and awaiting a mate could be some of the adjectives one could easily use in relation to the situations in Afghanistan. Situations that you would expect a strong menu_book

Perhaps in the beginning, Afghanistan was considered an easy, short term project where American and its allied troops could go in, clean up the country of all threats of terror, defeat centers of terror and safe havens for Al-Qaida, and le menu_book

As expected the time has come that the United States is making its decision about withdrawing some of its troops from Afghanistan. While it would be a welcome step had there been a complete success of the war on terror in Afghanistan and Pakis menu_book

Is Iran a friend of Afghanistan? Iranian government says it is. Afghan government leaders tend to agree just for the sake of diplomacy while deep down they might think differently. It is true that there are some Afghans who materially benef menu_book

Afghanistan is located between two governments on its east and west that claim they are her friends. Actually they are not. While the people in Pakistan and Iran have been friends of the Afghan people and have extended their help to millions of menu_book

It is almost a decade that Afghans have waited for situations in their country to improve: security to be maintained, the war on terror fought and won by a coalition of international forces, the economy to improve, unemployment rates, now well menu_book