The True Mask of Afghani Taliban Regime
The True Mask of Afghani Taliban Regime
It is claimed that the Taliban promises to make changes and show moderation when they returned in August 2021. The party pledged to cut off connection with terrorist groups, observe women rights and to cooperate positively with the world community. The ground situation is much worse though. In a recent report released by the Office of Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Taliban has been shown to completely fail to live up to the terms of the 2020 Doha Agreement. On the contrary to destroying extremist havens. They have enabled terror groups to consolidate their places in Afghanistan plunging the country into the domino of international isolation, personal persecution and humanitarian disaster.
A Terrorist Playground
Presently, Afghanistan has been known to be a source of terrorism. Such formations as Al-Qaeda, ISIS-K, and Tarik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are not only surviving but prospering under Taliban control. The Taliban had been custodians of terrorism other than law enforces as they had claimed to cut off links with such organizations. The relocation of TTP in the eastern region of Afghanistan which is said to be under Taliban protection poses a direct threat to Pakistan and to the balance of the whole region. ISIS-K, which has been established as the most major transnational mega-terror threat out of the Afghanistan soil, has increased its scope with immunity. The Taliban regime has turned terrorist enhancer instead of being a terror-fighter. It is again clear that the Taliban are not combating terror, they are feeding it as portrayed by the latest alert by SIGAR.
The failure of the Doha deal
The Doha Agreement, the supposedly much celebrated one upon which hopes of peace and stability were pinned, are in shambles. The Taliban have used the agreement as a tool to gain power and had no interest to fulfilling core commitments of the deal. The Taliban are persisting with their slogan of peace at the same time keeping extremists. In Doha, tangible progress has not been made in talks. The Taliban want access to foreign funds, yet they do not allow reform inside. International community is getting frustrated over failed promises and Afghanistan is getting out of control.
A Plan of Catastrophe Humanitarian
The humanitarian emergency inside of Afghanistan is not a sad by product of instability it is a made policy of the Taliban regime. The regime has forced more than 28 million Afghans to starve by strangling the civil society, limiting the activities of aid groups and refusing to submit to international principles. As U.S. aid comes to a stop and UN humanitarian activities were crippled. The people of Afghanistan have been held ransom by a government whose main priority was power rather than empathy. The social regression is equal only to the economic one as the Taliban destroyed all constructs of development built within more than 20 years.
Women who were forgotten by Society
The Taliban have been noted to write history by eliminating women in the society which is one of the gloomiest things about their rule. Girls do not go to schools, women cannot work and anybody who complains will be arrested or even worse.
This ceiling of medievalism does not only ruin lives but also cuts the track of evolution in Afghanistan. The leaders of Taliban still beg to achieve international legitimacy when they enforce their own policies which are in a direct conflict with human dignity, inclusion and basic human rights. Such condition of diplomacy becomes a one-way street a talk about hypocrisy rather than sincerity.
Under the rule of Ideology, not governance
Today, Afghanistan is not ruled by statesmen but by gun wielding ideologues. There is no economic recovery plan, no blueprint to regenerate the society and no room to talk. The ruling is through repression not governance. By strengthening their authority, the Taliban are making the country more severe under the regime of militants instead of facilitating the national reconciliation.
SIGAR report is not a bureaucratic checkup, but it serves as a call of danger to the rest of the world. The cost to the world is higher with every year the world ignores this descent.
It is no longer only the tragedy of Afghanistan. Pakistan is also a victim of cross border terrorism because the TTP finds refuge in Afghanistan. Revival of ISIS-K poses the danger not only to the neighbors but also possibly to the West. Diplomatic patience is no longer the time. The global community needs to adjust its measures, deal with the facts of Taliban governance and focus on exerting pressure rather than succumbing to appeasing. It is necessary because Afghanistan needs it, as well as the whole world needs safe security.
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