Abdulhadi Hairan is a Kabul-based Afghan journalist, writer, and research analyst. He is fluent and writes in Pashto, Urdu, Dari, and English. He started his career as a journalist from a weekly Urdu langage newspaper in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002. Then worked with the most popular Pashto newspapers Wahdat and Khabroona as Editor in Peshawar. In Peshawar he also worked with Afghan Islamic Press, a Peshawar-based Afghan news agency, as News Editor.

As a translator, he has been working with several translation companies as a freelancer. He currently works with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Kabul as a Research Analyst. Two of his books, including a collection of short stories, are published in Pashto. His blog is: www.abdulhadihairan.com.

Blog Entries by Abdulhadi Hairan

Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

1 Comments | Posted October 19, 2009 | 01:56 PM (EST)


For the last three or four days, I have been asked a question nearly a hundred times: 'what are the election results?' From my neighbors next door to the taxi drivers, colleagues and local and foreign journalists, everyone is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections...

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Time to Worry About Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

5 Comments | Posted October 13, 2009 | 01:48 PM (EST)


The first reaction from the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, after Saturday's audacious attack on the Pakistani army headquarters was that the country's nuclear weapons were safe. She said that 'despite the increase in acts of terrorism in Pakistan, there is no danger that the country's nuclear...

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