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Nasir Shansab in The Washington Times: Time to Get Proactive with Afghanistan

SHANSAB: Time to get proactive with Afghanistan Afghanistan is on the verge of an all-out civil war. Fraud has seriously marred the June presidential runoff election. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Kabul to mediate between the two opposing candidates. Both Dr. Ashraf Ghani, a former finance minister and winner of the runoff, and [...]

Nasir Shansab Discusses Afghan Elections on HuffPost’s WorldBrief

Thanks to Alyona Minkovski for having me on her show WorldBrief today at HuffPost Live. She interviewed me about tomorrow’s Afghan elections and I am her first guest. -Nasir

Nasir Shansab on The Mimi Geerges Show

Considering that U.S. officials claim astounding progress in Afghanistan, considering the upcoming April 5 Afghan elections, on March 19 Mimi Geerges interviewed me about the real situation in my native country and what it means to Americans. Mimi’s show is syndicated on Radio Fairfax and airs on SiriusXM Radio Channels 121 and 205. Please click [...]

Kirkus Reviews Hails ‘Silent Trees’ by Nasir Shansab

Kirkus Reviews, also known as Kirkus Media, is the leading book review magazine in America and I am grateful for their review of my book SILENT TREES: A Novel of Afghanistan. Please see the March 24, 2014 Kirkus Reviews article at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re.... While my book is a novel, characters are based on the real-life political [...]

America’s Last Option: Accommodation with the Taliban

By Nasir Shansab President Hamid Karzai’s demand that the U.S. bring the Taliban to the negotiating table before he would sign the Bilateral Security Agreement with Washington is self-serving and impracticable. Washington’s insistence that the Taliban conclude a peace agreement with Kabul within the framework of Afghanistan’s present constitution and political structure is equally unrealistic [...]

Join Nasir Shansab on YouTube and Google+

Today, we launched my new YouTube channel at YouTube.com/user/NasirShansab, where you can subscribe if you like. At the very least, I hope you will see fit to share my National Press Club speech about U.S./Afghan Relations with your family, friends and colleagues. It is many things: my eyewitness account of corruption and danger, a message [...]

Nasir Shansab on WURD Mid-Morning MOJO

Thanks to Stephanie Renee, host of The Mid-Morning MOJO on WURD 900 AM Radio in Philadelphia, for interviewing me on Monday, February 10. She asked a wide range of questions about my eyewitness account, what’s really happening in Afghanistan and what it means to the United States of America. Thanks also Stephanie’s producer, Troy Wilmore, [...]

Afghanistan – the bitter end

Winnipeg Free Press By Nasir Shansab 02/7/2014 1:00 AM Politically, we may have a vague idea of what exactly will happen in Afghanistan after 2014. Economically, however, we can quite accurately predict Afghanistan will return to its former life of poverty. Even the riches that supposedly rained on Afghanistan between 2002 and 2013 didn’t ease [...]

Nasir Shansab on Gulf Coast Mornings

January 24, 2014 – Thanks to the hosts of Gulf Coast Mornings on NewsRadio 104.9 FM in Biloxi, Mississippi. These gentlemen wanted to know about Silent Trees, life in Afghanistan and how I made the transition from doing business there to doing business in the United States. Some details may surprise you. Please click here [...]

Karzai was a poor leader in Afghanistan – expert

The Voice of Russia 21 January 2014, 05:01 By Rob Sachs WASHINGTON (VR) – Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is speaking out and calling for an end to US military operations and airstrikes in his country. Currently, he’s negotiating a long term security deal for Afghanistan that was tentatively agreed to back in October. Host Rob [...]