China says it seeks to ‘resolve’ Taiwan question,
amid comparisons to Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/05/china-taiwan-ukraine-report/
The Forgotten Catastrophe:
Afghanistan is on the brink of famine. How can Biden just forget about us?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/05/famine-afghanistan-joe-biden-reparations
Selay Ghaffar:
Last year I was forced into exile for my political activism and advocacy of women’s rights as the Taliban took control of the country. Looking on from afar, I could not believe how quickly our country faded from the news, how quickly our suffering ceased to concern even the critics of “endless war” in Afghanistan.
After 20 years of US occupation, my country has been left in ruins. The US and its allies did nothing to develop Afghanistan. We were made into a dependency, relying on flows of humanitarian aid rather than building our own economic capacities. The evidence? Our current economic collapse and the humanitarian catastrophe that has followed from it.
Pakistani Pashtun Leader: Nationalism Is a ‘Reaction Against the Racist Policies of the State’
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/02/pakistan-politics-manzoor-pashteen-pashtun-nationalism/
Pashteen’s appeal lies in his willingness to speak out on taboo subjects—historic abuses and modern marginalization; disappearances and extrajudicial killings; securitization of the Pashtun tribal regions; lack of education and employment opportunities for Pashtun youth; and Pakistan’s status as a rentier state, available to the highest bidder, be it the United States during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the post-9/11 wars or a rising China.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/05/china-taiwan-ukraine-report/
Afghanistan is on the brink of famine. How can Biden just forget about us?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/05/famine-afghanistan-joe-biden-reparations
Selay Ghaffar:
Last year I was forced into exile for my political activism and advocacy of women’s rights as the Taliban took control of the country. Looking on from afar, I could not believe how quickly our country faded from the news, how quickly our suffering ceased to concern even the critics of “endless war” in Afghanistan.
After 20 years of US occupation, my country has been left in ruins. The US and its allies did nothing to develop Afghanistan. We were made into a dependency, relying on flows of humanitarian aid rather than building our own economic capacities. The evidence? Our current economic collapse and the humanitarian catastrophe that has followed from it.
Pakistani Pashtun Leader: Nationalism Is a ‘Reaction Against the Racist Policies of the State’
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/02/pakistan-politics-manzoor-pashteen-pashtun-nationalism/
Pashteen’s appeal lies in his willingness to speak out on taboo subjects—historic abuses and modern marginalization; disappearances and extrajudicial killings; securitization of the Pashtun tribal regions; lack of education and employment opportunities for Pashtun youth; and Pakistan’s status as a rentier state, available to the highest bidder, be it the United States during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the post-9/11 wars or a rising China.