The Caliphate of Afghanistan
"After two decades of the brutality of Americans and their puppets, this gate and the Spin Boldak district were captured by the Taliban.""The strong resistance of the Mujahedeen and its people forced the enemy to leave this area. As you can see, that's the Islamic Emirate flag, the flag that thousands of Mujahedeen shed their blood to raise."Taliban terrorist 'fighter'"The reports of killing, ill-treatment, persecution and discrimination are wide-spread and disturbing, creating fear and insecurity.""The best way to end harm to civilians is for peace talks to be reinvigorated in order for a negotiated settlement to be reached."UN Mission in Afghanistan
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| People stand in front of a vehicle as an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and a Pakistan flag flutter in front of the friendship gate of Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Wesh-Chaman border crossing, Spin Boldak, Afghanistan July 14, 2021 |
After all this time and wasted effort, lives and treasury that delusional authorities in the United States and the United Nations continue to speak of 'negotiations' between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan reveals not their belief that such discussions can bear any measure of reasonable fruit for conciliation and shared governance in a moderate governing body, but the level of shameless cynicism brought to bear by those who know full well that no reasonable 'peace talks' could ever be shared with the Taliban.
They measure success in terms of complete and total 'victory' over any and all opposition to their inalienable right as rigidly fundamentalist Islamists to fully control the country, brooking interference from no foreign agency, much less the legitimate, democratically elected government of Afghanistan which they view with deadly contempt as puppets of the West, disloyal to Islam and deserving of death. The kind of death they are prepared to deliver with no hesitation whatever.
Violent Islam ideation has taken the place of any possible residual fragmentary emotions of compassion. The moment an Afghan national police officer or a member of the Afghan military surrenders to their superior numbers and savagery, the Taliban waste no time in executing them in cold blood. The niceties of conventions of conflict among civilized nations have no value to them. Anything resembling humanitarian values has the stench of Western values to them.
Their capture of greater swaths of Afghanistan's geography continues apace; the dwindling presence of foreign troops now completely disinterested in the future of Afghanistan following the disappointment of their campaign to shore up moderate Afghan governments devoted to the concept of a modern, democratic state in the interests of advancing the future of the country, represents a long-faded dream. The future of Afghanistan is in the hands of those determined to destroy that dream.
And they will. No longer will girls receive an education or women engage in business activities. Music and dance, celebrations and happiness outlawed once again, all offensive to their brand of Islam. Women must be fully covered in stifling black, medical care facilities will disintegrate, a dystopian future awaits. A major border crossing with Pakistan has been seized by the Taliban, their flag flying high, displacing that of Afghanistan itself.
Since the Afghan Taliban was encouraged and nourished and sheltered and supplied with weapons by the Pakistani intelligence service, there would be great satisfaction between the two; Pakistan and the Taliban. That crossing in the Spin Boldak district, south of Afghanistan's main city of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold, is one of the country's busiest commercial entry points, an artery between the two countries where 900 trucks a day traverse from Pakistan's sea ports into Afghanistan's southwest region.
Other major border crossings have been seized in other provinces, north and west, allowing the Taliban to collect revenues, thanks to border post controls. "Wesh, which has great importance in Afghan trade with Pakistan and other countries has been captured by the Taliban", a Pakistani security official observed from his deployment at the border area.
The U.S. is preparing to begin evacuating some 2,500 Afghan civilians who wee employed as interpreters for the U.S. government which has resulted in their lives being in danger with the ascendance of the Taliban. President Ashraf Ghani met with civilians in the northern province of Balkh, assuring them that "the Taliban's backbone will be broken", with government forces retaking areas lost to the terrorists.
In the western province of Herat, Taliban fired mortars at the Salma Dam, a hydroelectric and irrigation project vital to the district, leaving officials at the National Water Affairs Regulation Authority to appeal to the Taliban to consider the dam a "national treasure [that] is the common property of all and should not be damaged in military conflict".
The Taliban forced members of a small ethnic minority to the choice of converting to Islam or leaving their homes in the northern province of Badakhshan. "These are minority Kerghiz who lived there for centuries. They are now [across the border] in Tajikistan awaiting their fate", said Vice-President Amrullah Saleh.
The Taliban reject the accusaitons that they are abusive of human rights. Women will not be mistreated when the Taliban return to power, they declare. Women and girls in Afghanistan fail to be convinced, voicing their alarm at the rapid advance of the Sunni Islamists. Their fear and alarm shared by members of ethnic and sectarian minorities persecuted severely by the Taliban.
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| Supporters of the Taliban carry the Taliban's signature white flags in the Afghan-Pakistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Tariq Achkzai) |
Labels: Afghanistan, Government of Afghanistan, Overwhelmed, Taliban Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Friday, July 16, 2021
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