In the Pursuit of Future

By: Habib Sangar Taking into account the importance of the friendship between Afghanistan and India, and the actual move that has been put in place with signing the Strategic Partnership (SP) today, it would be very suitable for the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, to call this relationship as what the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yusuf Raza Gilani, in a failed attempt of seeking support from the Chinese authorities, has termed their relationship as, “higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, stronger than steel and sweeter than honey”. Looking to the contents of this SP, Afghanistan as poor nation, dependent on international aid, facing a traditional enemy, Pakistan, who has always sought its interests in a destabilized, weak, and backward Afghanistan, is provided with an opportunity to ensure its long term security and stability as well as to accelerate its economic growth by utilizing all the potential resources that this wonderful piece of hearth personifies. However, as far

By: Habib Sangar Today’s rapid economic growth and spillover of research and technologies around the world to some larger extent is attributed to the expansion of business partnership as well as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), who have always been in search for competitive advantages that a region offers at a specific time. Nonetheless, long continental distances that once it took months to traverse as well as had the countries and region isolated from each other, today aviation has shortened such long distances and enabled businessmen/women and owners of the multi- national companies to launch their businesses all over the world and to visit and monitor the progress of their firms in persons at anytime. Today, in worldwide level we have been the witness of significant innovation and development in the field of aviation. Providing of standardized services, flight safety and assurance through utilizing most advanced and up-to-dated technologies have been made possible by well ed

By: Habib Sangar Syracuse, NY In his meeting with General Zai of Pakistan in 1978, our late President Daoud, who was so emotional at the moment, had said, “Your strength, your welfare is our welfare and your stability is our stability. Let’s walk hand in hand in the warm glow of brotherhood and sincerity to cover the distance laying ahead of us,,,,,, I hope friendship between Pakistan and Afghanistan will be permanent and everlasting”. Still, I don’t know why it has taken Pakistan that long to realize that fact that both countries need each other more than ever in the past. Instability in Afghanistan is having (and will certainly be having) negative impacts on Pakistan. With its strategic location, Afghanistan can better serve Pakistan, who is in desperate needs for the energy as well as to boost its economy. The recent assassination of the high profile clergy and chief peace negotiator as well as rockets strike on US embassy in Kabul respectively each carried out by Quetta Shura and a

Former Afghan President, and current Chairperson of Afghan Peace and Reconciliation Council, Mr. Burhanudin Rabani has warned Government and Council of Religious Scholars on taking fundamental steps to tackle the current instabilities and misleading of governmental affairs otherwise, what he believed "they would sooner be replaced by Facebookers and internet users". His remarks come following to regime change in Egypt where he received his education and was influenced by Al-Ikhwān or Muslim Brotherhood ideology . He ,specifically, referred to the role of young people who have successfully managed to mobilize themselves as resistance forces against government through utilizing different social networks, such as Facebook and twitters. Afghanistan, a country where only 3 .4% (one million) of its population have access to internet with total 52,890 Facbook users concerns politicians about any probable resistance same as the one that brought Mubarak's 30

Why not a Revolution in Afghanistan? “The power of people the power of God”. Even though this term was frequently mentioned as one of the slogans by the communist regime in Afghanistan, the real application of this principal has been seen in Arab-Springs . People in that region have brought an end to the most notorious regimes who have ruled them regardless of their wills for decades. While collectively demonstrating and chanting for change, people, especially young men and women have failed their dictators and their loyal armies to rule them and to decide over their destinies anymore.   Unless their problems were to be addressed, which were only likely to be achieved with oust of these dictators from the power, there was no power and force that could stop these young people who because of the tyranny of their governments were badly affected, especially those who protested for their rights in Egyptian. They did whatever they could to get their voices heard and problems addres

President Obama has texted me ;) Last class was about the role of Social Media with particular focus on current unrest in the Middle Eastern countries. I believe, there is no doubt that social media has had its impact on organizing and mobilizing people who opposed their governments, but there is also something that needs to be considered as contributing factor to anger of people who have been succeeded in toppling the regime in Egypt. Utilization of Technologies like Iphone, computers that are connected with the Internet have reshaped the communication architecture of the contemporary world. Today, there is no place where someone can feel her/his self isolated from the rest of the world. Something that happens in one corner of the world will be straight away communicated with most of the people around the world in few seconds.   Instead of spending too much time on other original sources, I do get most of the news that I am interested on from those people