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Terrorism ravaging Afghanistan
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Dr Tehmina Aslam Ranjha
MAY 16, 2020
In Afghanistan, peace is fragile and truce is ephemeral. The only thing firm and perpetual is
volatility. On 12 May 2020, in eastern Nangarhar province, a suicide bomber attacked a funeral
procession of a local pro-government militia commander, Shaikh Akram, and killed and
wounded about 50 grievers. On the same day, a three-member suicide squad attacked a maternity
hospital, the Dasht-e Barchi Hospital, in Kabul killing more than a dozen of newborn children,
their mothers and nurses. The maternity hospital was adjacent to the Shia Hazara settlement in
Kabul. Attacking the soft belly of society without qualms discharges certain messages. The
foremost is that the militants can stoop as low as possible to instill fear and infuse disquiet.

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The fierce post-9/11 campaign against the Taliban compelled several bloodhounds to forsake the
militia and satiate their thirst by forming another group, called the Daesh, which has been
making its present felt since 2014. Whereas the Taliban sought support from the eastern border
of Afghanistan, the Daesh sought support from the western border of Afghanistan. In February
this year, in Doha (Qatar), the US-Taliban peace agreement kept the Daesh, the Afghanistan
chapter, excluded. Marginalization is the main grievance. That is, peace is a distant reality unless
the Daesh is consulted.

The Taliban is not a concept of administrating the country within the modern contexts of
democracy and human rights

Generally, Afghanistan is a hodgepodge of heterogeneous militant groups vying with one

another for power and resources. The post-9/11 effort of the US and its allies to introduce
responsible democracy under an Afghan egalitarian constitution are the steps still alien to the
local warlord culture.
The Taliban is not a monolithic organization. It is a bunch of benighted gangsters assembled
together to watch their stakes in the system to control certain even desolate areas and hog even
exiguous financial resources – a competition exuding madness. The Taliban is not a concept of
administrating the country within the modern contexts of democracy and human rights. In the
name of Islam, they carry out bestial acts. Women are the worst sufferers. Another sitting duck is
the Hazara Shia community. Ignorance rules over everything.

The leeway the Taliban has provided to the Kabul regime is that they are holding back from
attacking cities and are selectively attacking the Afghan security forces, and not innocent
unarmed people. The Daesh, however, stands excluded. Impervious to human suffering, the
Daesh is all out to crossing all boundaries to either get the US-Taliban agreement dissolved or
get itself included in the agreement.

Dr Tehmina Aslam Ranjha is an Assistant Professor at School of Intergrated Social Sciences at

University of Lahore and Research Fellow at UoL Center for Security, Strategy and Policy
Research. Currently, she is SDPI’s grantee for a mega project on Countering Violent
Extremism. She appears on BBC Urdu as an expert on National Security and Counter-
Terrorism.She tweets at @TA_Ranjha

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