First published
Covid-19, A Cause for Mental Health Concerns Among Youths
Emotional wellness issues among students are viewed as a general challenge to their overall wellbeing and the advent of Covid-19 has introduced a new range of…
Republished
Three Concerns About Taliban 2.0
The Taliban has returned to power in Afghanistan. The spectacular fall of the US-backed government has caught everyone by surprise, although for years it was conventional…
Analysis
Biden Was Right
In 2017, I arrived at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation. Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles…
Analysis
COVID Vaccine Boosters: The Most Important Questions
Concerns over waning immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants have convinced some countries to deploy extra vaccine doses — but it’s not clear to scientists whether most people…
Analysis
IPCC Issued A ‘Code Red’ Alert, But is Anyone Listening?
Human-induced climate change is ravaging our planet and every country, including Bangladesh, is struggling to deal with its impacts As the world battles record-shattering heat waves,…
Republished
Inclusive & Integrated Roadmap for Pandemic-Related Challenges
As the Pandemic deepens further with new variants, countries are faced with severe economic and social challenges. Globalization confronts critical setbacks with looming uncertainties on economic…
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Why Afghanistan’s Security Forces Collapsed So Quickly
Five key factors contributed to the Taliban's ability to seize power in Kabul Before the dust has settled on the collapse of the government in Kabul,…
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Clash of Civilizations: The South Asian Experience
In the early 1990s, the Cold War that had defined the world’s geopolitical scene for nearly five decades came to an abrupt end. This happened with…
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How RTI Regimes are Faring in South Asia
The Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered for the colossal chaos it caused to governments as they grappled—and continue to do—with its catastrophic onslaught affecting lives and…
Analysis
Twenty Years of Afghanistan Mistakes, but This Preventable Disaster is on Biden
Pundits (including me) love to praise bipartisanship in public policy. The calamity in Afghanistan shows the dark side of bipartisanship: This was a disaster that was…
Investigative report
Bond Licence Renewal Delay Hurting Export Industries
13,000 licenced companies face harassment for having to renew bond licences and UP certificates every year.Easy and quick, that is how renewing licences and certificates should…
Analysis
Afghans Need a Humanitarian Intervention Right Now
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan should continue. But a new military engagement should begin. In the run-up to the final U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the situation…