Chapter 2 continues…

The intelligensia and the other affluents have moved out to western nations creating a major vaccum in human resources. The post-withdrawal phenomena which include the turmoil during the Rabbani and the Taleban regimes hardly brought about any positive change in the country. Infact, during Rabbani’s regime Kabul became a hotbed of inter-mujahiddin flare-ups leading to severe bombardments that practically left the capital city in shambles.

The Talebans’ assurance of bringing peace into the war-ravaged country failed to hold promise when conflict continued as resistance forces countered this extremist, radical and primarily Pashtun forces to dominate the country. Their fall from power results from US bombardments that caused more deaths, destruction of the already fragile infrastructure and further population displacement. At the end of the series of incessant conflicts, as the government of Hamid Karzai grappled to stay in power, Afghanistan continued to be plagued by threat from elements of the Taleban trying to disrupt the working of the government.

Moreover, Afghanistan’s internal dynamics, failure of the international community to keep up to its promises and the characteristic conflictual mode of the social relations leaves little chances of it being called a post- conflict country.

To be continued…