Taliban's Report Card is Out and it's No Good

Taliban’s Report Card;is Out and It’s No Good Taliban won the war but they are failing to win the hearts and minds of their peopl. If they continue to turn a blind eye and deaf ears to the demand of theirmown people nothing is going to safe them even getting an internatioanal recognition. Their regime is doom to nose-dive. Time is clicking. During the American occupation. a member of high ranking Taliban said to American that you have the watch but we have the time. Yes, it was twenty years ago. Eight months since the Taliban took over the government after the unexpected collapse of American-backed government of Ashraf Ghani in August of last year, now it looks like fighting was easy than ruining a government. The evidence are all over. Taliban are failing as a resut the Afghas are suffering at a large scale. What was built in the past 20 years is crushing; women are banned from working with men in offices, girls are not allowed to go to school after completing six grade, vigilante justice is delivered by the Taliban foot soldiers on the spot without a due process of law; revenge killings of former government officials and officers have created an atmosphere of fear. Afghans are leaving in large numbers flocking at the door of Afghan neighboring countries Iran and Pakistan. Journaists are jailed and dissent voices are suffocated. But Taliban leaders claim in public that every thing is fine. Mohammad Hasan Akhund who is currently the acting prime minister of Afghanistan.in celebrating the Eid Ramadan said in a cabinet meeting hat Afghanistan is more peacefull and people are happy than ever. He blamed the foregners who is causing promlems for his country. But let’s examine how they fare in the lence of universal basic standared of statemantship. Are they telling the truth? Or let’s examine their performance. Brooking promises Taliban renegade on their promiss that they have offered a blank amnesty to the members of form governmet civil and military personel but the promise was not honored. Recently New York Times published its findings the Taliban first promised ex Afghan officers amnesty and then execute them Video team of The New York Times, reveals that nearly 500 former government officials and members of the Afghan security forces were killed or forcibly disappeared during the Taliban’s first six months in power. Taliban has changed the Ministry of Women Affairs to the Ministry of Vice and Virtue which set conde of conduct for women imposing restrictions on women depriving them from working in public and force them to wear hijab and not allowe to travel long distance without muharam near relative. women who raised their vices were detained but under pressure from the international connuitiy were released. Sine the Taliban took over the economy has becaome to a complet halt. World Bank has depected a grim picture Under current conditions, the outlook for Afghanistan’s economy is dire. With international assistance limited to supporting humanitarian needs and basic services, incomes are likely to remain stagnant and the economy is expected to contract further throughout 2022, with real GDP per capita declining by around 30 percent between end-2020 and end-2022. The economy will not grow fast enough to improve livelihoods or generate opportunities for the 600,000 Afghans reaching working age every year. According to the United Nation’s World Food Program, as much as half the population, or more than 22 million people, won’t have enough to eat in the coming year. More than 675,000 are internally displaced. That’s as many people as live in my hometown of Bosto According to the United Nation’s World Food Program, as much as half the population, or more than 22 million people, won’t have enough to eat in the coming year. More than 675,000 are internally displaced. That’s as many people as live in my hometown of Bosto Afghans are no more secure than they were before Recently the security has deteroiated. In the past two months Afghans were witnessed to a series of bombing in Kabu, Mazar-e-Sharif and Kuduz in the north part of the country. Hundreds of students, worshipers and ordinary people were killed as a result of terrorist attacks. As a result thousands are leaveing flocking in Iran bordres in search of job and security but Taliban are in a compaign of deplomative shatle urging the world to recognize their reime while turning their back to their people. But no country including Pakistan that has housed, armed and supported them in the past years has not recognized them. Taliban don’t believe. in election. When their leaders are asked about election or broad government they claim that election is an instrument of Western believes that is against the Islam. They refere to something alled baiat maing submission to the emir of Islam. The leade ship is an auto pilot. Afghanistan is the only country that is led by a goast. Talban claim that their leader Haybatullah is well and alive somewhere in Kandahar, a city in the outh. But other calaim that hedoes not exist and decrees are issued from Pakistan intelegent service under his name. But the good news is that they are not invincible. They are fragile and subject to fragmentation because they neither have the cash nor the skill to run a country. As Sarah Chayes the author of On Corruption in America—And What Is at Stake wites the Taliban is tottering. he Taliban is tottering; Afghanistan is in chaos. This offers the West unprecedented leverage over a foe it couldn’t beat on the battlefield. The intenational community should not recognize them until they held election and ask their own people if they want the Talban as their ruler but sofar they have turned their back to their people instead their face to outsiders asking for recongniztion of their regime and humanterian help. Imposing a group on multie ethnic Afghans is a receipt for proloningg the conflict. Taliban should go back to Mosques. Similary, I don’t advocate arming any group by outsidersthat will further stook the conflict. Afghan have suffred enough of war and voilance. I give them D.