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| Afghanistan Taliban 2021 |
The Northern city of Aybak has become the sixth provincial capital to fall to the Afghan Taliban in recent days and reports suggest that relentless, Afghan Taliban is now preparing for the stronghold of Mazar-i-Sharif the largest city in northern Afghanistan. The city was once the heart of anti-Taliban resistance in the 1990s. The Afghan Taliban or the self-styled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have evolved considerably over the past 27 years, so who exactly are they well-formed around a core of Afghan Mujahedin veterans from the Soviet invasion they were joined by young Pashtun tribesmen from Pakistani Madrasas or religious schools Pashtuns are the predominant ethnic group present in both Afghanistan South and Pakistan’s Northern Province of Khyber. There is a 2252 km Durand line the unrecognized border between Afghans and Pakistani Pashtuns.
After the United
States-led coalition offensive resulted in the expulsion of the Afghan Taliban
in the defeat in 2001 many of its leaders took refuge in Pakistan and continued
to direct attacks from their claims denied by Islamabad. According to United
Nations Security Council, there are an estimated 58,000 to 100 000 Taliban
fighters led by Malawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the ultimate authority on religious
and military affairs one of his deputies presently head of the group's military the commission is Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob son
of the Taliban founder the late Mullah Omar. According to United Nations
estimates the Taliban’s annual income range from 300 million to 1.6 billion
dollars a year. The fundamental sources of the fund's criminal activities including
drug production and trafficking extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
According to the Head of the British Armed Forces General
Sinek Carter, there is a major gap existing between the Afghan Taliban’s
political office based in Doha and what is happening on the battlefield. Carter
believes the Afghan security force and the Ghani government as a whole are capable
of holding on to those bits of the country that matter. He believes that the Afghan Taliban
are more likely to come to the table because they'll recognize that they have
to find a political compromise. Furthermore, he says people are making the
mistake of thinking the Afghan Taliban’s a homogenous entity that the reason probably
there is quite a disconnect between what happens in the political commission in
Doha and what happens in the various bits of the battlefield of Afghanistan.
General Nick Carter of the International Red Cross has warned that
hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk as the fighting escalates in Afghanistan.
The medical charity said it had treated 40,00 wounded people in the last 10
days alone the United Nations has said that there is evidence of possible war crimes as
well many people are now fleeing to Turkey for a country already playing host
to our million Afghan refugees the situation causing alarm from eastern turkey.
Hundreds of Afghans fleeing war has travelled hundreds of miles across Iran for
some the journey is all too much their entire existence packed into bags are
exhausted under the bright sun.
The security services are patrolling the entire Iranian
border area aiming to stop migrants from reaching big cities like Istanbul in west
Turkey is already struggling with a massive refugee population as night falls
many of the migrants make it to the nearby city dozens of men find shelter
under a nearby bridge. These migrants continue their journey the United Nations
and other agencies are warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
This will mean more people joining this route
In April The new United States President Joe Biden
announced in April that all the U.S forces will be out of Afghanistan by September
this had a demoralizing effect on the Afghan government and its security forces
and the government and soldiers were Nervous the second reason was that this announcement
involved in the Taliban they had a sense of victory and the third reason was
that as the number of U.S and NATO forces decreased in Afghanistan there was
less support for the Afghan security forces especially air support and
logistics support so that was another reason and the fourth reason was the
snowball effect in some parts of Afghanistan a few check posts and district
headquarters fell into the hands of the Afghan Taliban and there were also
reports and r that the Afghan government cannot supply and support its
soldiers so that had a snowball effect and there were also reports that the Afghan Taliban have made a deal with the U.S that they would be
allowed to capture some parts of the country. So all these reasons came
together and the Afghan Taliban managed to take advantage of the security
vacuum, but at the moment the U.S is providing backup for the Afghan security
forces with airstrikes it's not clear how much longer that is going to last
though, is it well the U.S has said that they will be supporting the abandoned Afghan
security forces until the end of August.
The U.S forces have almost completed their withdrawal and more than 95 per cent of U.S forces have already left Afghanistan and the remaining will leave the country by the 31st of August that's the deadline that President Biden has given. It's yet not clear whether the U.S will be supporting the upon security forces after the 31st of August or not because the U.S has not said anything clearly about however, they have said that the support will be there until the end of August but they've also said that it is now up to the Afghan government to manage its affairs and they've also said that you will be funding on Afghan security forces will be equipping them, helping them in training from outside Afghanistan.