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Previous Commentaries Approaching the End of the Beginning Islamic Caliphate: Myth or Reality Afghanistan the Pashtun Factor Angry Karzai-Sad Karzai Alienating the Hearts and Minds of the Muslims Invoking a Shadow Legislature Permanent Guests! Bye-bye Viceroy Walking the Political Tightrope Whose Priority Peace without Justice Karzai and Triple Ms Karzai's New Team NGO and Government The Black Karakul Cap Was Small for his Head Inauguration or Coronation! Hurry up Mr. Karzai Justice of History Hell of a Nation! Election Institution or Casino Games Perils of Refuge Taming the Lion of Herat - Insecurity, Elections and NGOs Half Elections October is Just Before November Think of the Motherland The Many Faces of Truth He Didn't Want to Go Home! To Oversell Afghan Tranquility and Progress Karzai Planner or Player Mullah as Agent for Reconstruction and Recovery The Fine Line Between Occupation and Liberation Amir Abdul Rahman, Karzai and the Wild West Money for Karzai The Many Rulers of Afghanistan To Transplant Democracy The Cost of Nation Building... Moderate Taleban? Brahimi and the Order of Ghazi Amanullah Khan The Day After Can Karzai Measure Up to the Task Taking of the Afghan Draft Constitution to the Tents As the Poppy Grows The Killing of Goislard The Not So Final Draft of the Afghan Constitution Iraq/Afghanistan Twenty to One Where They Kill the Sun Positioning Tactics for Elections - Can Karzai Ride on His Own Popularity? Thirty Percent of Zero Russia Wants $ 9.8 Billion From Afghanistan The "Land Mafia" The Chicken or Egg of Afghan Politics Hail to the Oppressed Women of Afghanistan Power Politics Ahead of the Constitutional Loya Jirga Border Alert! The Politics of Irrelevancy The Many Rulers of Afghanistan Today Voter Registration in Afghanistan Which Karzai? Which Masoud? US Major Combat Operations End in Afghanistan or Do They? Afghan Constitution-Two Months to Ponder Afghan Politics and the "Rohrabacher Effect" The Conqueror of Baghdad in Bagram Reformists, Fundamentalists and the New Afghan Constitution Positioning by New Political Parties in Afghanistan Massive Disarming of the Factional Fighters Is it a Day Dream? The Women of Afghanistan Karzai Returns Home Poorer but Wiser! Is the Non Alignment Movement Obsolete? Political Satire The Resurgence of the Left National Security or National Resistance The Enemy Called Routine Apathetic Afghan Intelligentsia Stingers For Sale Energy to Energize Reconstruction Money for Afghanistan The Many Perils of Afghan Life Warlords' Guns, Gunmen and Human Rights Karzai, a Stooge or a National Leader What Goes on in Pakistan Could Affect Afghanistan's Social and Political Institutions The Formidable Task of Drafting a Constitution The Many Armies of Afghanistan Capitalism, Power of the Poor and the Reconstruction of Afghanistan A US General on a Diplomatic Mission! Karzai Gets to Tell the World To Find the Right Balance Money Counts Even When There is no Money to Count Politics of Cricket and Baseball No More a Haven for Terrorists or Terrorist Training Adopt a Province - Afghanistan's Reconstruction Needs a Scientific Approach Dark Clouds Over Afghan Politics Come Technocrats! Come One Come All! Is the Afghan Government Meeting the Challenge After the Fanfare The Big Challenge Imbalanced Governance of Karzai The Two Faces of the Afghan Loya Jirga - Did Democracy Prevail? From Under the Great Tent of the Loya Jirga - Hope Continuity or Change On the Issue of a National Army for Afghanistan Good Money-Bad Money and Afghanistan Would the Magic Really Happen? Human Rights Report Jolts Warlords Politics of the Afghani The Social and Political Maze of Afghan Life Today and Tomorrow The Last Card Dealt is the King Zia and Weis Royalties of Sorts The future of Afghanistan Night Letters and Conspiracies The If(s) and When(s) of Zahir Shah's Return Fremont Kabul's Sister The Magician's Cape Time to Deliver Embracing Techniques of Conflict Resolution To Rule the Unruly Afghan Reconstruction Talk Fever What is Wrong With Karzai? Shadows and Spotlights Partner not Puppet Beyond Tokyo On the Long Road to Reconstruction True Help or Spoils of Peace As Afghanistan Calls on Her Sons and Daughters Afghanistan Revisited Don't Rush to the Bank! At Least Not Yet The New Beginning Pakistan Does Not Fold Its Taleban Card The Miraculous Conclusion of the Bonn Meeting Down Below Flows the Rhine When the Honeymoon is Over Should International Powers Build a National Government for Afghanistan? Return to Fiefdom Silence of the King The Killing of Abdul Hag, Games of Politics Military or Diplomacy Nation Builder? Watch Pakistan Post Taleban Afghanistan! Afghan Americans in Shock Two Different Ideologies, Same Tyrannical Rule Watching the Plight of Refugees Annan Recommends New Approach Aid Workers or Missionaries? The Unholy Durand Line, Buffering the Buffer US, the World and Taleban Northern Alliance Diplomacy At Work Internet and Oppression The Need for a Total Arms Embargo Crimes Against Humanity Is Osama a Friend or a Foe? General President Watch Pakistan A Country without Music, without Food Sound Opposition Needed Where is the Answer? How Do We Know? The Kingdom of the Half-Blind High Commissioner-Low Achievement The Left Foot of Zeus "Wipe Not the Tears Off my Face" A Welcome to Rocca The Art of Speculation Interim Government in Exile! The Bystanders Authority or Chaos To Tame a Monster When Ants Grow Wings The Rape of a Nation The Need for the Afghan Intelligentsia to Unite Do Figures Talk Pakistani Military Meets Afghan Clergy The Blue Children of Mazar Let’s Play Politics, on my Trms Will a New US Administration Come Up with a New Afghan Policy? Ask the People Displacement an Alternative to Certain Death Irony or Blunder Beyond Politics Afghan Peace in Ashgabad! In the Chambers of the Mighty Friend of the Enemy The Anatomy of a Resolution Imposition of a Third Force! On the Issue of a National Uprising Vendrell Scores a Point Call for Loya Jirga, Version III A United Nations that is not united Is He or Isn't He Ammunition Needed The Art of Political Seduction Afghan Politics after the Fall of Taloqan Back To Cyprus on Afghanistan and in New York US Policy of Lingering Suspense Regarding Afghanistan Islamic Resurgence in the World A Study of the Alternatives Let the World Know Pakistani Schemers are Testing the Waters Smart Sanctions An Abused and Battered Motherland The Laughingstock Order to Eliminate The Drying up of Afghanistan Everybody Even Nature Interferes in Afghanistan Afghanistans National Army A Challenge or a Solution Post Cold War Politics and Afghanistan If You Think Like Me Let's Think Together Peace Democracy and the Right to Veto The Sanctity of the Unholy The King Begins to Move Sincerity Precondition for Talks Bitter Sweet Divorce on Honeymoon The Lure From Nicosia to Rome The UN Uunting Season Magicians without Magic Escape From Under the Beard Word From Mecca Two Eids, Three Leaders From Paris to Jeddah to Tokyo Taleban Story Everywhere How Many Did We Kill Marjan, the Old Blind Lion of Kabul Zoo Is It Afghanophobia "Little Moscow" and the Rule of Taleban A Listening Tour And So Suffer the Animals Caravan of Donkeys "Little Moscow" and the Rule of Taleban The-Modern is not Pious The Politics of Secrecy Taleban Guests The Latest and the Last Celestial Religion The Other Grand Assembly Gas and War Parallels Life After Rome Osama a Problem That Doesn’t Go Away Magicians at Work and Sanction Schemes International Actors Must Take Responsibility The Tale of Two Men Who Represent Nothing Please be Serious Military or Civilian His Majesty the President or Mr. Monarch Fleecing of Afghanistan Meetings and Meetings The Politics of Women Issues France-Panjsher Relationship Those Who Deny Intervention Explosion at the Door Steps of the Taleban Leader Behind Closed Doors Been There Done That Another Inconclusive Meeting The Osama Card Conclusion of Another Meeting.... Hundredth Time Movement in Rome For Those Who Return Environment Belongs to Humanity Ten Thousand Taleb The Price of Relative Security Afghan Chess Play the King With or Against Whitewashing the Ugly Face of Crime Magic Show Called Human Rights Broad-based or Narrow-minded? Human and Other Rights Promises Broken 1378 The Year of Hope Economy: Problem or Solution? A Week Pregnant With Events Looking Good On the Paper and In the Papers Osama, Heroin, Plague and the Quake Mystery and the Mysterious Wishing Osama Out Search for Alternatives So What? To Be Killed Elsewhere Repatriation with a Twist If You Were A Child Begging For Food An Out of Balance World Quake Resistant Homes for Afghans Afghanistan and the Opportunistic World Twelve Little Annans Afghan Copper Wealth Inderfurth-Zahir Meeting The Cacophony of War UN-Taliban Relationship An Afghan Initiative for Peace The United Nations and Taleban: A Marriage of Convenience The Afghan Ball in the OIC Court When You Are Not Represented Provocation by Iran The Ball in the UN Court Double Standards at Their Best The Story of Deceit Iranian Hypocritical Theocracy To Fight Terror With Terror The Aftermath  The Fall of Mazar The Grand Assembly(Loya Jirga) The King's new Clothes The First Anniversary Arabs in Afghan Haven  Don't Touch the Mother of Law Is there a Will? Is there a Way? Resiliency Under Oppression  How Easy to Wonder Kanju in Afghanistan In Search of Peace Let's open a University  Nuclear Surprises Politics by Remote Afghanistan and Forty Kings To Agree to Talk on Talks Richardson, the Cow Revolution and the Death of Pol Pot Four of the Last Good Men The Street Children of Kabul Blind Rule Now Roze: Festival of the Red Flower The Question of Values A Flower for the Women of Kabul Charity, Aid, Help; NGO And Similar Expressions To Disown a Government Good Mulla, Bad Mulla A Land of Misery No Arms, No War! Suddenly Afghanistan Political Chess Games Convoys of Envoys Just What is a Broad Based Government? Hindsight of a Leader Third Person Plural Nanny Kinder than the Mother? OIC and the Right of Representatio Mullaism The Big Sister Spoke Is it gas? Is it oil? Or is it Afghanistan? Who can rule Afghanistan? To Name a Country To Meet or Not to Meet? The Fear of Death From Kabul to New York To Live in Fear To Kill for Power No Embassy for Afghanistan The Internal Turmoil Afghanistan and the United Governments Afghanistan: the Vietnam Connection Puppets to Puppeteer Around and Beyond Afghanistan The Lesser of the Two Evils A Country Without Friends The Swiss Solution