Afghanistan is facing the worst humanitarian crisis for the last forty years. The unfortunate terrain of Afghanistan has been pushed by different arch-rivals to exercise their own strategic interest in sterile mountains. Afghanistan geo-strategic location is always been a testy sandwich for major global players. The great game was ostentatiously played on the soil of…
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Oil collapse and COVID-19 crisis: demand plummeting vis-a-vis future of oil politics
World’s future holds much uncertainty due to rapidly expanding COVID-19 outbreak all over the world. Its drastic impacts will be out of control as well as unimaginable in today’s context. The post COVID-19 period will be remembered as tragic event of the twenty first century with numerous looming challenges. Emergency in health care system, economic…
Read moreBitter lessons Corona keeps teaching us
Never before in the history of mankind, had a pandemic inflicted with such horrendous cost. A pandemic is also an epidemic that spreads over several countries and continents while affecting a large group of people. On that note – all pandemics are epidemics but not all epidemics turn into pandemics. On the spreading of novel…
Read moreTaliban and US sign Afghan peace agreement (with full text of the deal)
After 18 months of negotiation, the US and Taliban representatives signed the Afghan peace agreement on 29 February 2020 at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of Taliban, as head of Taliban’s Qatar office and US peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad signed the peace deal….
Read moreIran’s neighbors shut down borders over coronavirus infection fear
On 23 February 2020, Turkey announced that it would “temporarily” close its land border with Iran as fear grows over an increase of new coronavirus infections. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told to reporters, “We have decided to shut the land border temporarily after an increase in the number of cases in our neighbor Iran.”…
Read moreTaliban attacked two provinces ahead of a peace deal with US
Several media reported on 22 February 2019 that the Taliban movement waged attacks in Afghan provinces of Paktia and Balkh. Recently, it was also reported in several western media that Taliban agreed on a seven-day ‘violence reduction’ for signing a peace deal with the US. Abdullah Hasrat, a spokesman for the Paktia governor said in…
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