Bacha Khan the nonviolent Pashtun movement

February 23, 2011

Found a nice article about Bacha Khan and his nonviolent movement. People like Bacha Khan are really needed these days when Pashtun both in Afghanistan and Pakistan are innocently killed. Followers of the nonviolent Pashtun movement known as Khudai Khidmatgar Movement (Servants of God) are marking 23 years since the death of their legendary leader, [...]

Read the full article →

Letter to President Obama – Discrimination against Pashtuns

December 23, 2010

From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. Burhani This letter was sent to: U.S. President Barack Obama; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,; Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Ranking Member Richard Lugar; German Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel; British Foreign Minister, William Hague; Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID); Fulbright scholarships; Director [...]

Read the full article →

The Danger Of Marginalizing Afghanistan’s Pashtuns

December 23, 2010

Here is another article confirming what I’ve been seeing and writing on this blog regarding the marginalization of Afghans in Afghanistan by minority groups such as Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. By Tanya Goudsouzian, Helena Malikyar “If you think you are leading and no one is following you, then you are only taking a walk,” cautions [...]

Read the full article →

AN URGENT PASHTUN CRY FOR JUSTICE IN UNITED AFGHANISTAN

December 21, 2010

I, Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar, received the account below (in the national language of Afghanistan Pashto) on December 12, 2010. From the pain he is expressing in his letter, its author is obviously a Pashtun parliamentarian in Afghanistan. My concern for his safety does not allow me to reveal his name. Dr. Rahmat Rabi Zirakyar, [...]

Read the full article →

Corruption and Warlordism: A critical review of Corruption situation in Afghanistan

December 2, 2010

It seems to be hopeless in Afghanistan these days and all the previous posts by me regarding corruption and mismanagement by the warlords who are in power in the current afghan administration are confirmed by various sources. Below is an interesting article by Abdul Basir Stanikzai that highlights some of the points. Corruption and Warlordism: A critical review of [...]

Read the full article →

Open letter to Hamid Karzai

November 25, 2010

“Your Excellency Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan As you may be aware, during the current 2010 Asian Games held in China, a provocative ethnic music was played instead of the Afghan National Anthem. This shows a clear threat to the unity, prosperity, security and peace in Afghanistan. Whoever is responsible for [...]

Read the full article →

Wrong Afghan anthem was played at the 16th Asian Games

November 17, 2010

During the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games, each country enters the arena along with its national anthem. When the afghan team entered the arena one could hear that the national anthem of Afghanistan was replaced by a tune that is recognized for Northern Alliance and its national and ethnical melody. The scandal was [...]

Read the full article →

What the Afghans want

November 10, 2010

I recently read a good article and would like to share it because it touches some of the aspects that I have been writing on this blog. I   What the Afghans Want Source: OpEdNews By: Paul Fitzgerald Nearly a year into the Obama administration’s new AfPak strategy the only thing that is clear is [...]

Read the full article →

Russia in cooperation with NATO in Afghanistan

November 4, 2010

The recent news regarding Russian military operations in northern Afghanistan is yet another confirmation about the desperate situation NATO and the US forces are in. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is trying to involve Russia in the Afghan conflict by summarizing it as “a new start in the relationship between NATO and Russia”. The resistance [...]

Read the full article →

Warlord to create peace in Afghanistan?

October 25, 2010

Hamid Karzai never seems to surprise us when presenting Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Tadjik warlord as the chairman of a new peace council. The intention is to invite Taliban to peace negotiations. This warlord is the very one who is responsible for thousands of deaths in the war between Taliban and the Northern Alliance (Tadjiks, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →