Yesterday’s dastardly suicide bombing killing 21 people, 13
of them foreigners while they were having a dinner at a prominent hotel in Kabul
is a pointer to the shape of things awaiting the hapless govt of Afghanistan headed by Hameed Karzai, the incumbent President. The attack,
no doubt, was carried out by Taliban, the militant outfit, ever since US
announced its intention to withdraw their forces by the end of 2014. After leading the nation to the brink of chaos
withdrawing from the scene is reprehensible, to put it mildly. US should have shown
the courtesy of wiping out the hard-core elements of Taliban and bring the
nation a nice plan to live in. Not only US forces but the NATO forces should
have to take up the responsibility of maintaining peace in the war-torn nation.
Having eliminating Osama-Bin-Laden while he was leading a
luxuroious life along with his family at
Abottabad, Pakistan and several other militants and militant heads, who were
embedded in safe-havens along the harsh terrains of Paktun-Paktun-Khwa previously
known as Waziristan. US and NATO forces are thinking on the lines successful
completion of their mission their assumption is ill-founded. Ten years of (2001-2011)
relentless war virtually brought Afghanistan into a shambles. The distorted
picture of the nation is being brought back to a shape, an initiative taken up
by has been taken over by a few well
wisher nations like India which have extended support to the Afghan govt in
cash and kind. Not only pumping cash but by sending skilled and unskilled
workers who work on a war-footing to develop the infrastructure facilities like
transportation, irrigation, electricity, constructing buildings etc etc. In the
event of a drawdown of US forces Indians are the most vulnerable with Pakistan
and Taliban joining hands not only to topple the govt but to pose security
threat to the Indians. Hence the drawdown of forces of US and NATO forces is
sure to force Indians out of the country. Pakistan is sitting with its fingers
crossed.
Election time is only three to four months away in Afghanistan.
Taliban forces are poised to subvert the coming elections in Afghanistan. It is
a foregone conclusion that in the place of Hameed Karzai, the incumbent
President, another ruler is set to occupy the saddle and with change of chairs,
a positive change at administration level is not at all foreseen as the Taliban
is mobilizing its forces with the intention of upsetting the apple-cart.
Today, a national newspaper has reported that US govt and other
top-rung leaders and enforcement agencies are in a state of panic as a number
of splinter groups of terror created out of Al-Quida owing allegiance to it, along
with terror outfits from Lashkar-E-Toiba, Tehriki-Taliban Pakistan and India. All
are set to strike anytime even in the midst of tight security. A ‘super power’
ie US once walked with its head high who believed that no terror groups pose a
threat to the nation while many other nations were reeling under terror strikes
killing hundreds, anytime, anywhere US sat comfortably and with hubris that it
was not going to be affected by any terror attacks – mild or serious.
With the twin towers of World Trade Centre got crashed by
suicide bombings and reduced to a heap rubble claiming the lives of approximately
three thousand citizens to the horror of the ruling elite, all Americans
including nations the world over, set the US thinking and it became obviously
clear that terrorism is a global phenomenon and there need be a collective
effort to wipe out the evil once and for
all. Even now after the destruction of the twin towers of World Trade Centre in
2001, US citizens are still panicky. Now that with the ‘home grown terror’ looming
large ,the US elite and citizens across the nation look at every stranger with fear and apprehension.
US must be knowing very well that in the event of withdrawal
of its forces from Afghanistan, the citizens and foreigners are likely to lead
a nightmarish life.
US could bombard that nation and wreak destruction within a
short period but they should also take into account the reconstruction of the
war-hit nation. For that to happen it would take years, otherwise, it should be
generous in continuing to be in Afghanistan until the last militant is rooted
out from the soil of Afghanistan.
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