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'Who are these people sitting in Pakistan telling us how to rule ourselves?' is what most Afghans think. Pakistan will never be happy with anyone in Afghanistan because Afghans are nationalists, they are patriots. Islamabad didn't like Karzai because he was too independent, and they don't like Ghani because his vice president keeps talking about the role of Pakistan in a negative way. Yes, but they also have this ambition not to govern Afghanistan but to make sure that the leadership in Afghanistan is always pro-Pakistan. Is an Afghanistan under the influence of India still among Pakistan's biggest fears? They eventually stepped back and moved away from encouraging peace processes in Afghanistan.Īfghanistan: Militias form to counter Taliban I think the Chinese realized that they didn't want to get sucked into a never-ending conflict. The Taliban didn't agree with the Chinese and didn't accept their strategy. Three years ago, when Beijing started to talk with the Taliban in China, and Chinese delegations were meeting the Taliban in Pakistan, it appeared that the Chinese might be very positive about making peace so their Belt and Road Initiative could go smoothly. Then, the Taliban came back and endangered everyone.Ĭhina has a growing presence in the region and strong ties with Pakistan. It was in those first two years when all the progress was achieved in education and rebuilding. Their revival is a matter of neglect by the US and the stupidity of going to Iraq in 2003. By 2002, they had been totally wiped out, but by 2004, they were already a major force in Afghanistan.
The Taliban's relaunch would have never happened without Pakistan's help. They were supporting former President Pervez Musharraf, who used a dual strategy: he was backing American drone operations from Pakistani bases and at the same time supporting the Taliban. So why did Washington keep supporting Pakistan? Afghans were left very much on their own and that allowed the Taliban to come back.įoreign troops leave Bagram air base in Afghanistan They left the issue in the hands of the UN, but the latter lacked the support of the Americans, who walked away from Afghanistan to fight a new war in Iraq. The NATO and the rest of the international forces should have paid attention to that from the beginning. The real failure has been the lack of unity among the Afghan resistance, but it's also been an international failure. Elections were rigged by the warlords, by Hamid Karzai and then Ghani. But there was no overarching security or political plan to unite these people. Many of them joined the government, often in senior positions. Wasn't this part of the problem from the very beginning?Īll these warlords were brought to Kabul by the Americans after the defeat of the Taliban.
The warlords never left after the Taliban defeat in 2001. Why should they when their leaders are safe and their families are safe? If Pakistan wants to show its sincerity, it needs to immediately force the Taliban leaders to either compromise or leave their sanctuaries in Quetta or in Peshawar. Is Pakistan's support still a major factor behind the Taliban's advances?Īs long as the Pakistani military and intelligence continue to give them the sanctuary, there is no need for the Taliban to accept any compromise or any deal or any dialogue with Kabul. The militants know this and that's one of the reasons why they have refused to talk with Ghani so far, and also refused to accept the American plan for the Doha talks and the conference in Turkey. Ghani has not been able to unite the people under a common position of dialogue with the Taliban. How do you look at the role of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in all this? The Taliban's relaunch would have never happened without Pakistan's help, says Rashid
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