Taliban are Murderers of Afghan People, is a new discovery, calling Taliban, Haqqani and al-Qaeda networks killers and enemies of Afghan people doesn't solve the problems Afghanistan is currently facing.
Afghanistan's Caped President, Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, is decisive to show a happy face to the Taliban to persuade them to sit around negotiation table and bring them into the government. Mr Spanta cited the involvement of Taliban into the government structure a historical shame and he should apologise to the Afghan people.
Why should we negotiate with the Taliban? Are the sides looking for their own popularity and is the government interested to look at Taliban's untrimmed beards? Or is Taliban group interested to see technocrat faces and modern suits of Karzai's government officials? In fact they are fighting to gain power. Taliban are being supported by neighbouring countries and if Pak Prime Minister, Yosuf Raza Gilani, in an interview with al-Jazeera said that his government is not supporting the Taliban, it's clearly a lie. Taliban group was created in 1994 by Pakistain, Gilani's party and Pakistain's people's party and late Pak interior minister, Nasrullah Babur, is the spiritual father of the Taliban.
National Security Advisor to President Karzai, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, is fully aware of the strategies. He emphasised on taking the war to the other side of the Afghan-Pakistain border as the Americans did and launched an air strike on November 26 last year and killed 24 Pak soldiers. But Pakistain's political revolution made America's eyes blind and the revolution is in progress. I think it would have been better if Mr Spanta emphasised more on causes of the tensions between Pakistain and Afghanistan instead of calling Taliban the murderers of Afghan people.
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Division of Pashtunistan was another challenge for Pakistain in Dawood Khan's strategy.
At that time, Pakistain had newly gained its independence which was not recognised by Afghanistan in 1948 UN summit. The main question is which strategy should be used against Pakistain? Mr Spanta cited Amanullah Khan's kingdom as the golden era of Afghanistan, which is right. He gathered modern thinking people such as Mahmood Tarzi, Wali Mohammad Khan Darwazi, Queen Suraya his wife, and Mr Dawi. We should solve our problems with the Taliban. Pakistain established Taliban to remove those who were with division of Pashtunistan.
Tribal leaders and Pashtun Nationalists are being killed by Taliban and today instead of tribal leaders Taliban Mullahs are ruling Swat, Bajaur, Orakzai, Mohmand
... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
Agency and North Wazoo. These areas are being controlled by Mullah Hafiz Gul Bahadur Khan, Mullah Nazir, Mullah Rahmani, Hakimullah Mehsoud, Mullah Ehsanullah Ehsan, Mullah Faqir Mohammad and Mullah Fazelullah. They implement the provisions of Islam according to their own interests. They behead people and amputate hands misusing Islam. Extremist mullahs and nationalists destroyed communities; Taliban's ideology is to impose their own version of Islam rules on Pakistain, Afghanistan, Khurasan, and Middle East. There is no doubt that Taliban are fighting or negotiating to gain power. I can't understand how Mr Spanta said that if Taliban are involved in government he will feel ashamed before the history.
The main point is to talk about borders with Pakistain. These may not solve all the problems but solving the border issues could be very important. Pakistain's protest may not be becauseof the death of 24 soldiers, it may have messages like Durand line is the redline for Islamabad, crossing that line could have any kind of consequences.
After the liquidation of Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
, President Karzai realised that the side to talk with is Pakistain, this discovery is better than discovery by Mr Spanta. President Karzai has recognised his side to negotiate with.
Mr Spanta must realise that Afghanistan is facing Pakistain, not a small number of Taliban, they called the government of Afghanistan a "puppet" regime, but the truth is that Taliban are the servants of ISI. The US will never change the strategy and the geography of war.
As you all know Afghanistan's defence minister is sleeping all the time due to his old age, his working hours start at ten o'clock in the morning and ends at two o'clock in the afternoon as organised by his aides.
Our Security Forces are not capable enough to change the geography of war, instead of changing the geography of war think about negotiations with Pakistain and recognise the vital issues.
Don't be afraid to share your findings with Pakistain, accept the realities, wishing will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. Don't be just happy by saying on TV that Taliban are murderers of Afghan people. It's not a new discovery.
Mohammad Natiqi is the Former Afghan Ambassador to Libya and a political analyst.