Analysis
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Chabahar Port Emerges as a Key Trade Alternative for Afghan Businesses
DID Press: Afghanistan’s business community is increasingly looking to Iran’s Chabahar Port as an alternative to Pakistan’s Karachi Port, following repeated border closures, the detention of commercial containers and mounting transit costs along routes through Pakistan. In recent months, particularly…
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Al-Aqsa Flood: The Collapse of Israel’s Myth of Invincibility
DID Press: The third anniversary of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation has arrived, marking an event that, on October 7, 2023, represented not only a major military operation but also a significant turning point in the modern history of Palestine and…
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From Kabul to Yemen: When a Government Collapses From Within
DID Press: Rapid advances by Ansar Allah in Yemen and reports of the fall of territory and the disruption of strategic routes have prompted comparisons with the collapse of Afghanistan’s republic to the Taliban. In Afghanistan, the republic appeared to…
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Islamabad Against Islam: Standing Alongside Tel Aviv and Washington
DID Press: Pakistan’s deployment of tens of thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia, at a time when the war in Yemen remains one of the longest-running and most costly humanitarian crises in the Muslim world, raises serious questions about the…
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Unprotected Skies, an Indifferent World: A Narrative of Midnight Attacks in Eastern Afghanistan
DID Press: Around 3 a.m., while residents of Chogam Valley in Afghanistan’s Kunar province were asleep, an Afghan civilian home was reportedly hit in a Pakistani airstrike, killing five people, including several children, and sending three others, including two women,…
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Muslim World Should Seek Strategic Independence, Not a New Patron
DID Press: The developments of recent years indicate that the security and political order of the Middle East is undergoing significant change. From the consequences of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and the wars surrounding Palestine to the direct confrontation between…
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Global Institutions Paralyzed from Kabul to Beirut and Gaza
DID Press: For us, the people of Afghanistan who experienced two decades of military occupation, nighttime airstrikes and the killing of our compatriots under beautiful names such as “human rights” and “the establishment of democracy,” the images of Beirut, Dahiyeh…
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Afghanistan’s Shia Religious Space Faces Growing Restrictions Under Taliban
DID Press: The repeated closure of religious, cultural, educational and service institutions associated with Afghanistan’s Shia community is raising concerns about increasing restrictions on the community’s social and religious activities. The closures of institutions including Tabyan and the Fatima al-Zahra…
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Sayed Hassan Nasrallah: From Religious Education to Regional Resistance Strategy
DID Press: The history of Islam is a history of competing wills—a history of figures who prepared themselves through faith, understanding and decision-making before confronting their adversaries on the battlefield. The Quran speaks of Abraham and Nimrod, Moses and Pharaoh,…
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Why Explaining Sayed Hassan Nasrallah’s Legacy Matters to Afghan Society
DID Press: The anniversary of the martyrdom of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, the martyred Secretary-General of Hezbollah Lebanon, is an important opportunity to examine the model of Islamic resistance and revisit the aspects of his steadfastness against the hegemonic projects of…
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