by Our Correspondent in Doha In a significant move, the Ministry of Information and Culture of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban) has announced the ban of several books, including Kitab Al-Tawheed
In an interconnected security environment, threats do not travel alone. They move with narratives, and increasingly, those narratives shape international responses as much as the threats themselves. In late 2024, Zabihullah Mujahid,
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Afghanistan does not need a softer public relations line. It needs proof that it can act like a responsible state. That means controlling armed groups, respecting borders, treating its own people with
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Modern states are formed on the promise to provide fundamental rights, including education, health-related facilities,s and security. It creates a bedrock of the social contract and establishes legitimacy. In Afghanistan, 90% of
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Over the past two decades, Afghanistan has cycled through war, foreign intervention, and fragile attempts at political transition. The Taliban’s return in August 2021—twenty years after their removal by U.S.-led forces—marked a
More Four years after seizing control in 2021, the Taliban regime is not consolidating control, it is unraveling from within. Far from the “peace and stability” they promised, Afghanistan today is a pressure
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In Afghanistan, humanitarian reporting has become one of the most influential lenses through which the crisis is understood internationally. Yet that lens is increasingly incomplete. By focusing heavily on civilian suffering without
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It is no longer credible to treat Afghanistan’s terrorism problem as a purely internal Afghan matter. Since the Taliban returned to Kabul in August 2021, Afghanistan has increasingly functioned as a permissive
More The Taliban present their rule as grounded in Sharia. Nearly five years after returning to power, Afghanistan is governed less as an Islamic system and more as a centralized structure of authority
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The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangarhar province has “gone silent.” Anxiety about the future is rising as trade halts and incomes dry up, a local shopkeeper
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Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, the claim of having restored “security” has remained central to their narrative and its external amplification. This framing often contrasts with earlier periods
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