Just days away are we from Kabul when the Taliban regime will be celebrating the first anniversary after takeover from the old regime led by ex-president Ashraf Ghani. A recap of the incidents that led before and after the takeover on 15th August 2022 by the Taliban will be fitting to discuss in this article because of the 1st anniversary of the Taliban regime in kabul after 25 years.
Before:
Afghanistan is the only muslim country in the world which has been going through a series of disaster one followed by another like a domino effect. Begining with the soviet withdrawal the taliban came to power. When the taliban were in power the regime was not Afghanistan wasn't given the status of a nation, instead countries rejected them as a terrorist state. This included human rights abuses, hijacking, religious intolerance, fundamentalism, freedom of speech bans, underdevelopment, economic crisis, drugs and the list can go on. Since this began spread with a solid base the west and others saw it as a threat for other nations including the west which came openly against the regime. The western alliance took over sending the talibans into hiding and handing over of the regime to a culture sensitive afghan people. All this time the west was giving it's support for the democratic regimes for the next 20 years. The united states was a biggest ally of the new democratic regime extending support. In January of 2021 the US thought it was a perfect time to leave Afghanistan fully in the control of the Afghanistan alone. The taliban has been closely following the developments from their hideouts and preparing themselves for this opportunity to takeover power this time.
After:
The taliban seized power from the ruling democratically elected government and the president of afghanistan fleeing to save his own life left Afghanistan. The taliban celebrated their victory. The west was withdrawing at the same time. Millions of people had to flee afghanistan for safety of their own lives starting a new refugee crisis. The taliban promised to not to act in the same old ways as in the 90s. They assured to act more civilized this time. Since nothing was happening as they said the same old human right abuses, denial of education to women and girls, abuses in the name of islam (there's universal condemnation from their own muslim men and women for their interpretation of islam), drugs are back on streets, hunger, poverty, health crisis and what not? In this present state of affairs the ruling taliban will be celebrating their first anniversary of a regime the world hasn't accepted yet. Millions of afghan civilians are the worst sufferers of this crisis having to go through everyday suffering for all the above reasons. There are national plans for celebration on this anniversary. It's worse even than a hand to mouth situation when so many others are having so many good things in life even among their own muslim ruled countries in the world.
For this situation to be reversed diplomatic relations must first begin within their own muslim ruled countries and then with other non-muslim ruled nations. If the taliban insist of being other muslim and non-muslim recognised countries must start to accepting the taliban regime. This will pave the ways for opening diplomacy to a regime which is in isolation. The taliban must open doors for dialogue and diplomacy putting a full stop for all fairy tale lies. This can happen within the next thirty days starting with opening of a neat, well staffed and equipped home office to begin dialogue with others. This will pave the way for in the future for other more open dialogues with others.
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