The international chat room is full
of noises about the sudden takeover of Kabul by the Taliban but nobody
mentioned the way the President of Pakistan was humiliated for seeking
permission to carry out airstrikes using Pakistan’s airspace. Power prevailed
and the weakest succumbed to the high voltage of American and NATO pressure. We
witnessed the same kind of pressure earlier in the Middle Eastern region where
the USA’s policy on the Arab Spring to gain control of the Middle East were
frustrated, just like their loss in Afghanistan now. If you see the hegemonic
policies of the USA vis-a-vis the Middle East and South Asia, both support
notions of aggression.
The International chat room
displays various comments and these nonstop arguments are coming against the
USA and Taliban.
Currently, the Taliban are being
cursed for the non-inclusion of females in their cabinet whereas surprisingly
there is hardly any female in international chat rooms themselves.
The International community will
continue to curse the Taliban while it continues to advance its agenda without
hindrance. Is it unfair now to keep the Taliban isolated? They need to be
brought into the mainstream and be made a part of the international community.
Let us see how the international community takes up the matter of Taliban in
the UNSC to resolve it.
The announcement of the withdrawal
of US troops from Afghanistan was made first during the time of President
Obama. However, at the same time, the warmongering policy of the USA to
overpower the Middle East was already in full swing as part of the great idea
of President George W. Bush to take over Middle East and Iran. Obama stated
that the US forces, authorities and CIA had achieved their longstanding target
and objective in capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden. He also said that the
planned to withdraw thirty-three thousand surge troops by the summer of 2012,
including ten thousand by the end of 2011 while an estimated seventy thousand
remaining U.S. troops were scheduled to stay until 2014. Obama confirmed that
the U.S. was holding preliminary peace talks with the Taliban leadership and
also the UN Security Council. He extended the time of complete withdrawal to
the end of 2016. Later in May 2016, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, both
candidates trying to succeed President Hamid Karzai, promised to sign a
security agreement with the USA as a prerequisite of any post-2014 U.S. troop
presence, hence the drawdown was slowed down leaving behind 8400 troops.
In October 2018, the newly
appointed U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay
Khalilzad, travelled to Doha to explore the potential for peace talks in a
meeting with the Taliban. On 25th October 2018, Pakistan finally released
former Taliban deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, upon US’ request. The
U.S. and Taliban began overt bilateral negotiations in Doha, agreeing to
discuss military withdrawal, counterterrorism, and a ceasefire while the talks
continued over the next eight months.
I had told Mr Zalmay Khalilzad in
my capacity that the USA will fail in pursuing its agenda as the Taliban will
never come to a compromise with Dr Ghani. He did not agree with me until August
15, 2021.
To reach the conclusion, Pakistan
mediated again and finally, in February 2020 the US and the Taliban signed an
agreement in Doha in which all foreign forces were supposed to quit Afghanistan
by May 2021. The signing of the agreement is credited to General Qamar Javed
Bajwa, the Army chief and General Faiz Hameed, DG ISI. Taliban negotiation
teams and the Afghan government gathered in Doha face to face for the first
time after the Afghan government completed the release of 5000 Taliban
prisoners. Acting U.S. Defence Secretary Christopher C. Miller announced plans
to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 by mid-January 2021.
Putting an end to the 20 years long
US-Afghan war, President Biden announced that the United States will withdraw
by September 11, 2021, regardless of the progress made in the intra-Afghan
peace talks. As a hasty and dramatic development, Biden mysteriously ordered a
quick evacuation of troops in August 2021.
The FBI report on the 9/11 incident
sheds light on the meeting of a Saudi government employee, Omar Al Bayoumi with
the hijackers in a restaurant which was portrayed as a chance meeting by the
Commission. The FBI has now painted the meeting as a pre-planned and
well-orchestrated event as the witness to the meeting saw Bayoumi waiting by
the window of the restaurant for the hijackers rather than running into them by
chance and they had a long conversation together. The report also suggests that
Thumairy and Bayoumi were also linked to known international terrorists on a
phone tree. Bayoumi was in ‘almost daily contact’ with a man having ties to the
mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre attack. Thumairy’s phone was linked
to people having connections with the Millennium Plot Bomber.
It is ironic to say that Osama Bin
Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks himself was a Saudi national. The
question that arises here is why Afghanistan and Pakistan are constantly blamed
for something that they were never even involved in? Why Pakistan, despite its
evident and remarkable role in US War on terror and the Afghan peace process,
is accused for harbouring terrorism?
Technically, Al Qaeda was formed in
the 1980s when young Muslims from around the world joined the Afghan mujahedeen
as volunteers in a jihad against the Soviet Union. The question is who called,
gathered, and trained them in Afghanistan? It was the USA. The USA gave birth
to the Mujahideen by portraying itself as a messiah for Muslims and used them
against its arch-rival for its geopolitical objectives. It was around the same
time when a wealthy Saudi, Osama Bin Ladin, was one of those Mujahedeen brought
by the USA to be trained. The USA deliberately left these Mujahideen behind to create
a state of civil war in Afghanistan so that it could have a reason to interfere
in Afghanistan in future. The point to ponder here is that all of these attacks
happening afterwards were carried out inside Muslim territories and by the
Muslims themselves, until the 9/11 attack happened. Why did the CIA not
interfere when it was aware of possibility of something happening?
The US has deployed its forces in
almost every Muslim country in the name of security and protection but who is
the enemy that would harm them? The Muslims themselves or the ones who fear the
strength of the Muslim community fighting their enemy together?
Now, the only reason behind the USA
blaming Afghanistan and Pakistan is that the unity between both does not leave
any stone unturned to create unrest in the region. So, the superpower once
again left behind the bone of contention after sudden evacuation for the whole
region to deal with.
Intellectuals and world
investigators must explore if this incident had something to connect the US’
larger plan of taking over the Middle East and Iran? If this point was to be
considered in the international chat room then why should the FBI rope in Saudi
intelligence in it? Why and what next? After all who is behind Tehrik-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) and how dare the sympathisers of TTP openly threaten attacks on
Pakistan. Let us see how Pakistan counters this lethal TTP in future.
The article was published in The Nation on September 21, 2021, link to the original article.. https://nation.com.pk/20-Sep-2021/afghan-taliban-in-hostile-international-chat-room
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