Musa Khan Jalalzai

Many Afghans and Pakistani intellectuals often ask about the future of civil war in Afghanistan and the unending series of insurgencies in Pakistan. The partition of the Afghan state will begin with the demand for a federal system of government and independent provinces. Since the revelation of a British MP’s plan for the future political […]

The recent violent riots across the UK and the way the police has been tackling them put the credibility of the police, intelligence and New Scotland Yard into question. Many experts believe that the abrupt emergence of this violent criminal force and their ‘loot and burn’ action were due to the total failure of intelligence. […]

Some recent, amazing news stories about the Afghan army’s collaboration with the Taliban, its active involvement in the internal conflicts of neighbouring states and its killing of innocent British soldiers in Afghanistan have created misunderstandings between the Afghan and NATO military establishment. Soldiers and officers associated with the army and jihadi groups are working on […]

In August 2011, the UK police chiefs admitted that tactical mistakes allowed vandals to loot and destroy shops, houses and markets across the UK. Police commanders and decision-makers face the consequences of these tactical mistakes and weak decision-making processes — two key elements that badly damaged the image of the UK police force. A recent […]

The recent illegal phone-hacking scandal in the UK is considered to be a great intelligence failure as several officers from New Scotland Yard were found involved. Those who hacked the voice-mails and phones of the 7/7 victims, Sara Payne (whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000) and soldiers killed in Afghanistan […]

The recent news stories about the women, men and children trafficking in Afghanistan have become a hot topic in the print and electronic media across Europe. From Northern Afghanistan, recently, I received some heartbreaking e-mails about war criminals and US military contractors’ involvement in human trafficking. These e-mails raise many questions regarding the US-led war […]

In recent two e-mails I received from the parents of two teenager girls who were forcefully married to wealthy and powerful Tajik war criminals in northern Afghanistan, a painful story of torture, humiliation and imprisonment of their daughters reminds us of the era of Arab ignorance where women were buried alive. Sajida and Rashida were […]

The heartbreaking stories of helpless, poor and vulnerable girls and women of Afghanistan are making headlines in the print and electronic media across Europe these days. Afghan women continue to be victims of domestic and sexual violence by warlords, war criminals and private militia commanders. During the last three months, I have been receiving e-mails […]

The announcement by President Obama about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan created a lot of guesswork in Kabul. As no specific military, economic and political progress has taken root during the last 10 years of the presence of the foreign forces, the country will remain vulnerable to insurgent groups before and after their […]

“Don’t go to Afghanistan if you want to save the money.” These are the words quoted from a recently filed news story of my journalist friend returned from Afghanistan. Over the last three decades of civil war, Afghanistan largely depended on the black market economy, criminal trade, and smuggling of opium, heroin and arms. Drug […]