The Russians are Back in Afghanistan
In the past decade and a half we remained engaged in Afghanistan. What we did not do was a close and realistic observation of our engagement and investment…
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The Roashans
Where we discuss Afghanistan. Essays, a family memoir and poems in English and Dari.
بشنو این نی چون شکایت میکند از جداییها حکایت میکند
Listen to this reed, how it complains, telling the tale of separations.
Latest essays
Country Corner
The Afghan-US Bilateral Security Agreement – Psychology of the Dilemma
The issue of the BSA has been in the news for so long. There have been analyses and commentaries on the subject. Many of these comments lacked a…
US Aid Money and Afghanistan
In December 2001, the United States well aware of the fact that the establishment of a democratic system of government in Afghanistan would not come about free of…
Karzai’s Pre-Lame Duck Attitude
Afghanistan is an important country, strategically located with huge untapped and priceless resources for an energy and raw materials hungry world. The world needs peace in Afghanistan and…
Why is Karzai Playing Hard?
A little over four months left in Karzai’s rule, he tries to show mettle. All along until recently Karzai was a tame team player. President Bush liked him…
Karzai who?
Afghanistan has entered into a phase in its life that is of utmost importance for its place in history and its immediate and far fledged future as well…
Afghanistan,My Ancestral Home
A memoir in 15 chapters
Afghanistan, My Ancestral Home
Mohammed Khalid Roashan’s account of growing up in Kabul and Nangarhar, of school days and the nomads, of editing a newspaper and serving in government until the end of the monarchy, and of the years of change that followed.
“…you may get a picture of an Afghan as he grows up and goes through life in that far pavilion that is Afghanistan.”
Poetry & prose
Art & Culture
Do the Heavens Have a Heart
With you,I touched the color of love,and in your eyes
امید
Hope
به امیدِ طلوعی بعدِ این سیاهی،سالها در غربت و تنهایی،
Allotment
You are dealt a hand of two, three, four, five, six, or seven—Random, unpredictable, unforgiving.You play them day and night,
Gallery
Afghanistan in pictures
The family
The writers
Dr. G. Rauf Roashan
Essayist and poet
M. Khalid Roashan
Journalist and memoirist
Zalmai Roashan
Poet and essayist
Murtaza Roashan
Poet (Dari)