{"id":117039,"date":"2021-08-13T00:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117039"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:40:04","slug":"a-gloomy-future-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/13\/a-gloomy-future-of-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"A GLOOMY FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Definitely\nUS\u2019 decision of pulling out its forces from the Afghan land is going to change\nthe whole future scenario of the war-torn Afghanistan, might be in a positive\nway and might be negatively. But one thing is very much clear that things would\ntake a long time in permanent settlement. At present a tug of war between the Afghan\ngovernment and the Taliban is simply making the situation over there more\nhorrible and more atrocious. The Taliban have to fight not only the Afghan\ngovernment but also the veiled supporters of US in Afghanistan. Agents of the\nR&AW are also there to counter Taliban with all their zeal and zest, even\nthe Ashraf Ghani government is doing all the best possible for its survival.  In short, situation there is not very\nfavourable for the Taliban but not in control at the Ashraf Ghani government at\nthe same time. And no doubt this was the situation desired by the US policy\nmakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts\nare of the opinion that the Taliban could be successful but not in blinking of\nan eye; things could take time. There is expected a long tug of war in which it\nwould be very difficult to defeat the Taliban as they are enjoying a very\nstrong support of the local people. Moreover after US withdrawal, they would be\nhaving no strong military opposition as the Afghan Army has no professional\nskill to compete the Taliban. There are reports that many soldiers of the\nAfghan Army are joining Taliban troops as they think it is in better interest\nof their country. The Ashraf Ghani government is also aware of the fact that\nthe Afghan Army lacks professional skills and it won\u2019t be a wise step to\ninstigate the Taliban by showing closeness to India at this crucial time. That\nis the reason that recently on 26 July Afghan Army Chief Gen. Wali Mohammad\nAhmadzai cancelled his planned visit to India just because of the possibility\nof offending the Taliban leadership. The purpose of his the three-day visit to\nIndia was to explore ways to deepen bilateral military ties in the backdrop of\nthe Taliban carrying out offensive operations across Afghanistan following the\nwithdrawal of foreign forces but according to an official of the Afghan\nEmbassy, The visit by our Army Chief has been postponed due to intensity of\nwar and Taliban\u2019s increased assault and offensive.\u201d Reports say that Gen\nAhmadzai had plans to hold wide-ranging talks with top Indian military brass\nincluding his counterpart Gen. MM. Naravane and National Security Advisor Ajit\nDoval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However\nthere is another question too; would the Taliban-control be fruitful for the\npeople of Afghanistan?  It is a bitter\nfact that for the last three decades, Afghanistan has been \u2018misused\u2019 rather\nexploited as a battlefield of interests for so many western countries. In the\nname of war on terror, a very fertile and minerals-enriched country has been\nchanged into debris. No doubt India had always been a facilitator to all those\nwho joined hands together with one another in \u2018excavating\u2019 the Afghan lands. It\nhas been in media-analysis that the Taliban being \u2018sons of the soil\u2019 could\nnever forget the atrocities and cruelties of the NATO forces and the US troops,\ndone against the real land-owners. Apprehending the \u2018danger\u2019 of Taliban\u2019s\ncoming into power after US\u2019 withdrawal from Afghanistan, India has already\nstarted planning to bring a shift in its policy towards the Taliban. According\nto Aljazeera, \u2018in early June, the Indian media reported that New Delhi has\nstarted talking to certain factions and leaders of the armed group against the\nbackdrop of the withdrawal of the United States forces from Afghanistan. A few\ndays later, India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs also confirmed these reports,\nstating that they were in touch with various stakeholders.\u2019 \n\nIndia is well aware\nof the fact that the Taliban regime could never be very pleasant and\nencouraging for India as the Taliban claim to struggle for supremacy of the\nMuslim community. In case, the Taliban come into full power with all authority,\nthe ball would not remain in India\u2019s court. The Taliban would never honour the\ndeals already done between the Ashraf Ghani government and India. It is also a\nfact that India has invested a lot in Afghanistan specifically in the last ten\nyears. This investment is mainly in construction of roads, dams and\ninfrastructure projects. Other than an economic activity, this investment\nprovides India an opportunity of sending terrorists to Afghanistan in guise of\nlaborers and other technical staff. Control of Taliban on Afghan affairs would\nsimply deprive India of this golden opportunity. The fact of the matter is that\nAfghanistan could never move to a better direction unless foreign interference\nin Afghan affairs is not eliminated. Peace and prosperity in Afghanistan could\nbe a desire of countries like Pakistan, Iran, Russia and China but for US and\nIndia the desire might be otherwise. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Definitely US\u2019 decision of pulling out its forces from the Afghan land is going to change the whole future scenario of the war-torn Afghanistan, might be in a positive way and might be negatively. But one thing is very much clear that things would take a long time in permanent settlement. At present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}