The obama administration by agreeing to
hold peace talks with Talibans,as a Taliban Emirate entity ,has
unwittingly undone the accomplishments of the 12 year long war in Afghanistan. US
is strangely holding talks with Taliban in Doha,with
a taliban flag,that amounted to sidelining the constitutionally elected
government of Afghanistan.
Obviously,enraged Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai retailated by
announcing that Afghanistan
was suspending its participation in US-Afghan talks about a Bilateral Security
Arrangement to provide for some US troops staying back in Afghanistan
post 2014.
Even Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen already pointed in the
Nato Chicago Summit last year that the peace process in Afghanistan must
be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.
Hamid Karzai had reacted
furiously after Taliban
opened office in Qatar equipped
with the Taliban's flag and under the banner of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan-the
name the Taliban regime used to refer
to the Afghan state it ruled
before 2001 attack by US.
Though a Taliban flag that
had been hoisted at the Taliban
office in Qatar on Tuesday has been taken down and laid on the ground on
Thursday and plaque a name plate reading
political office of the Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan has been removed from outside of building ,but the message has gone out loudly to the international community.
This style of taliban will be seen by the international
community as if the Taliban are
representing Afghanistan government in exile.This would seriously impact the
2014 elections and create a swing in favour of Taliban menace
,that was supposed to be countered and wiped out.
This episode will further
create long term complications in Afghanistan and also impact the situation in neighbouring countries.
To further
elaborate the Talibans gameplan ,
Taliban spokerperson Mohammed Naeem told
to Europe media that “As long as foreign
forces are there we cannot call it
the end of foreign
occupation in Afghanistan and the
other important issue is the issue of
sovereignty. The current administration in Kabul
is not soverign.”
Further said,” How can
it then implement Islamic laws or harmonise them with the demands of the
present times.”
The holding of talks with Talibans under these circumstances is obviously
questionable and the result will be
disastrous.
President Obama is well advised to recollect the ethnicity
of Afghan society comprising of Uzbeks, tajiks, Hazaras, Shias etc and that some prominent leaders of ex-Northern
alliance are holding key posts in the current Afghanistan government. Besides,
the women lawmakers would be worried of a possible Taliban return.
Another significant
aspect of talks is that it was initiated by Pakistan’s military and that
has also managed the inclusion of banned terrorist organization
the Haqqanis network in these
talks. Thus it has created enough room
for Pakistan
to wield political influence in Afghanistan
that will be detrimental to the
stability of this region.
Obviously, US and Pakistan
have learnt no lessons of deploying
fundamentalists in the proxy wars against India and driving out the soviet forces from Afghanistan,that
ultimately resulted in AL Qaeda and their allies conducting 9/11 world trade
centre attack.US has instead paved the way
for the return of the dreaded
Talibans menance in Afghanistan
in elections of 2014.
This should also open the eyes of US-Nato allies so that the swap of dreaded Taliban leadership detained in Guantanamo prison is not
allowed to take place. The swap of said detainees will require
a written notification to the US, Congress where some lawmakers
vigoursly oppose that move.
The return of these dreaded Taliban detainees after a prolonged period may have a potential
of bestowing the status of heros that
usually happens in fundamentalist
backward societies and may markedly
aggravate the situation in 2014 polls in
Afghanistan seriously upsetting the accomplishments of the 12 years
of sacrifice and contribution by
the Afghans who aspire for improvement in the conditions in Afghanistan .
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