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…
Editor’s Note: The author of this essay, Mujtaba Safi was born in Kabul in 1991. He completed his secondary education at Ghalam Mohammad Farhad High School in 2010. Currently he is studying Computer Science at Maiwand University in Kabul. Mujtaba believes that youth education and employment opportunities are important for building Read more…
Editor’s note: Afghanistan’s transition to democracy has not gone smoothly. The country has a two stage process for electing a president. During the first round of voting, multiple candidates run for office and all but the top two vote-getters are eliminated. In the next stage, an election is held to Read more…
An election is a democratic process through which people have the opportunity to vote freely for the candidate of their choice. In exercising this right, people are not only casting their vote for a particular person but also for a hope that the vote will usher change for a better 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…