AFGHANISTAN ON THE PATH TO CIVIL WAR

With the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the war between the Taliban and the Afghan army is escalating in line with fears and anxieties. The Taliban are naturally in high spirits and are advancing rapidly across the country, but the Ashraf Ghani government claims that government forces are also inflicting heavy casualties on the Taliban. The Taliban say they have laid siege to all major cities, while the Afghan government puts the number of casualties at the hands of government forces at around 300. Under the US-Taliban agreement, all Afghan groups in the current Afghan government and the Taliban had to cease fire and shape the country’s future system through peaceful negotiations before the withdrawal of US troops, but unfortunately, this did not happen. The Afghan talks began several times but could not continue successfully, while the Biden administration after President Trump upheld the decision to withdraw its troops and decided that all Americans should leave Afghanistan before 9/11 this year. Troops will be called back after the George W. Bush administration killed a man accused of harboring a man allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

The facts are on record that the assassination was carried out despite the fact that the then Taliban government in Afghanistan had publicly agreed to hand over the wanted person to an international court for trial if it provided concrete evidence. Many just Western analysts have called it unjust to throw an entire nation into the flames of war for revenge on just one person. However, the Bush administration has stuck to its decision, resulting in 20 years. White House Press Secretary Jane Sackie says the US president has long realized that the Afghan war is over, after a long-running war in which scores of people have been killed and billions of dollars lost. Cannot be won by force. After the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, the fact became clear once again that Afghanistan still has the potential to be a graveyard of kingdoms according to its centuries-old tradition, but the lesson of history is that no one does not learn from, However, now that the United States, like the Soviet Union, is returning to Afghanistan without any political arrangement, the real issue is how to save this war-torn nation from further bloodshed. It is not difficult to gauge the extent to which President Joe Biden’s assurances that “US forces will provide assistance to the Afghan government and Afghan forces as needed” are realistic and workable. In these circumstances, only warring Afghan groups have the recipe to save their country from further destruction. If the civil war escalates, there is a fear that a new human tragedy will arise and in addition to killing and bloodshed, millions of Afghans will be relocated. Pakistan is now unable to bear this burden as in the past, so the only solution to the problem is for the warring Afghan groups to settle their issues at the negotiating table as soon as possible instead of on the battlefield and move forward on the path of civil war.

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