As 2014 draws to a close, Pax Populi would like to share with you a couple of ideas expressed to us by an Afghan student in the Pax Populi Tutoring Program, Ghulamsakhi Tanin (or simply “Tanin,” as he is called). Tanin is a young man from the Afghan province of Bamiyan Read more…
Afghanistan held presidential elections on April 5, 2014, its third since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Despite heavy rain and the threat of attacks from the Taliban, people turned out in record numbers and patiently waited for hours just for the chance to vote. After having lived Read more…
Afghanistan is about to enter a new chapter in its recent turbulent history. The country has been in a state of conflict since the communist coup in 1978 and now after twelve years of NATO military engagement, the United States and its allies are planning a major drawdown of troops Read more…
Editors note: We are pleased to again have a piece by the Afghan writer, Maryam Safi, who here describes the experience of tension faced by Afghans in the face of the pending drawdown of international forces in Afghanistan. Maryam is an Afghan national born in Kabul in 1986. Due to the Read more…
During the 1990s, when Afghanistan was under Taliban control, Qais Akbar Omar set out with his family on a journey to avoid the trauma and violence that put everyone in the country at risk. He has now written what is widely agreed to be one of the most outstanding memoirs Read more…