Afghanistan’s Unhealed Wound
Hashim Raza Adv/Peshawar, LLM (UK) Raza For more than four decades, Afghanistan has remained a bleeding wound—surviving, but never truly recovering. From monarchy and semi-monarchy to revolutionary upheavals and proxy wars, every political experiment has left deep scars. While earlier systems preserved relative peace, particularly in urban centers, they failed to reform outdated dogmas. Conversely, leftist revolutionaries pursued economic change without sufficient regard for Afghanistan’s socio-cultural fabric or its complex geography. This imbalance turned the country into a global choke point—contested by Western capitalism, Arab petro-politics, and Islamist movements alike. In the name of jihad, billions of dollars were funneled intoRead More
