Nilofer Rahmani the first ever Afghan female pilot seeks asylum in the USA Due to inappropriate workplace, discrimination and harassment imposed; urged her to become an immigrant in the USA and what she declared that still she is passionate to be a pilot and is ready to work in air force institutions, but not in Afghanistan. In fact she is ...

All Ahli Ketab followers, whether they be Muslims, Christians or Jews, are cousins, and their enmity is quite like that of Pashtoon cousins. When Pashtoon cousins become each other’s enemy, they do not care that we are the grandchildren from one grandfather, that we have one religion that is Islam, we speak one language, and we have one tribe. Ahli ...

Either the state is insecure about the letter and spirit of its theory or the theory itself is so weak that it cannot withstand the potency of opposing ideologies The other day turned out to be a good opportunity to walk into a Marxists den through a function hosted by the Progressive Pakistanis forum here in Toronto, on a night ...

Yet an other year to end, which seems to be no way different from the previous ones.  The turmoil in the world is still persistent, and it seems that people are deliberately bent on destroying the mother earth. Our immediate Muslim neighbor country Afghanistan, seems to be in the situation of 80’s if looked upon the other way. The Taliban summer ...

I am a lecturer at a Teacher Training College where I work is in a remote area so I travel by taxi car, there was a poor elderly lady who also wanted to ride in the car, she said she could only to pay 70 Afghani fare, instead of 100. Many drivers had refused her because in Afghanistan seats in ...

As the victory of Donald J Trump in the 2016 US Presidential elections sinks into our collective conscious, Brexit vote seems to be a ripple compared to the electoral tsunami that has swept the US. It is important, nonetheless, to understand that the people and the forces that brought Trump to power are dissimilar from those that brought about the ...

Ending violence against women/gender alliance Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally administered tribal area (EVAW/G Alliance KP Fata) in collaboration with Shirkat Gah, UN Women and Social work department organized Award distribution ceremony and panel discussion for those human rights defenders who are contributing in their respective fields to end violence against all genders and groups. In those winners we had two females who ...

A chunk of masses is commonly and usually known to the world as “junky” despite having fancy names given by their parents. Junky – a beggar with drug addiction. At outer, they are within us but actually they are not. They are not kept outside the walls of a city but they are alien to us. Mothers point on them ...

The tale of independence and partition of India has been trumpeted and touted by different narrators. It is up to the story-teller who makes it reflect each time in a divergent version. When we turn over leafs of the text books– which are drilled into schooling-minds at school and colleges levels – plethora of questions bubble up out of the ...

Its historical need of the oppressed nations chained in Pakistan’s forced annexation (slavery of Punjabi imperialism) to form a single strategic alliance for their freedom and extermination of fundamentalism from the region. This was, too, needed earlier at the time of the elections of 1970, when Bengalis were contesting to end Punjabi dominancy; if Sindhi, Baloch, Pashtun and Saraiki nations ...