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International financial institutions should engage with Afghan government to restart aid

OIC and Afghanistan % In less than two weeks, we will be seeing the dawn of a new year. Will this year be any different

ISLAMABAD: The United States never had any exit plan nor its counterinsurgency strategy worked in Afghanistan, which ultimately led to its defeat in...

Joe Biden Should Ignore the Afghanistan Critics Critics of Joe Biden’s decision in Washington, DC remain vocal, putting forth a series of increasingly desperate arguments that don’t hold up to scrutiny. Twenty long years, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $2.2 trillion later, the U.S. military is finally pulling its forces out of Afghanistan. The U.S. military base in Kandahar, one of the largest facilities supporting the U.S. and NATO war effort, now serves as a departure poi...

Afewknowthetruth The reasons for the American invasion of Afghanistan were entirely the opposite of those of the Soviets. The Soviets were there to support the socialist government: the Americans were there to ensure no socialist government could thrive, or even exist. As we all know, the policies of invasion and subjugation were carried out under the banner of ‘Freedom and Democracy’. In pure Orwellian doublespeak, GW Bush declared: “They hate us because they hate our freedoms.” Free...

Summary Over the past three decades, Lebanon’s ruling class—which comprises intertwined political and business elites—has run the country into the ground. To survive its ongoing accumulation of challenges, including the financial crisis that erupted in October 2019, Lebanon requires a revamped state backed by a new economic model with social justice at its core. Tax reform is central to such an endeavor—and to ensuring that the state has the means both to deliver basic services and to t...