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One Step Forward Two Steps Reverse

By: Ghulam Raza

The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after five years of Taliban removal still are not capable to prevent terrorism activities and to restore peace and stability in the region. The extremist activists whom are not only undermining the United States sponsored Afghan government but also have killed thousands of innocent civilians' across Afghanistan so far. The Bonn conference's promises to bring stability and prosperity in Afghanistan remained just a dream and many dilemmas which needed to be addressed accurately remained limited to paper work and unresolved.

The past three decades of significant wars and conflicts that subsequently and severely affected Afghan government institutions and economic infrastructure.

These damages as the result of occupational war, civil war and thereafter the rise of Taliban regime entirely made Afghanistan dependent over foreign financial contribution and aid, not only this but thousands of Afghans were horribly killed, displaced and compelled to migrate in neighbor and industrialized European countries. In addition to that another remarkable lose or liability occurred was the disappearance or lack of professional doctors, engineers, teachers and leaving of the well educated class due to the escalation of wars that badly diluted the academic and economic structure of the Afghanistan.

Terrorism activities, suicide attacks and targeting innocent civilians and Human Rights violation have became the daily practices where as the government including international military forces are not competent to stop the anti activities which directly or indirectly hollowing and interrupting the reconstruction and reconciliation process.

Cross border terrorism and the record increase of poppy cultivation showing Afghanistan the way towards destruction and obliteration yet again no serious measurements or restrictions are observed or implemented in order to prevent the country from further potential violation and cracks in Afghan social, political and economical structure.

Since the fall of the Taliban regime the International community commitments are appreciating and to some extend effective also, since major alterations in Afghan Administrative and legislative body were considered and implemented successfully. However such reforms that are provoking the nepotism and individualism are not rewarding for the ordinary people of the Afghanistan. The high level of unemployment rate and least literacy rate quite complicated and challenging the lives' of millions of war stricken Afghans to survive even as an ordinary life.

The selections of candidates were not made on behalf of merit and transparently, though few individuals who are capturing high positions with their high western qualifications could not imply their modern administrative logics and formulas for the devolution of Afghan traditional administration structure.

The Taliban are reemerging threat mounting and openly launching their bloody attacks and has established their sanctuaries in the south regions which is believed a strong hold area of radicals. The human toll is increasing with the every single passing day, the previous air strike held by International forces in spite to eliminate extremist networks increased numbers in the score board of ordinary civilians' causalities. Afghanistan has been experiencing a series of warships and conflicts which have already killed thousands of fathers, husbands and brothers and as a result the same number of widows and orphans were also reported. The NATO presence was estimated proportionate to protection and sustainability of security but alas due to the in adequate military strategies that could not identified Taliban from a normal civilian unintentionally killed a number of Afghan families.

The disintegrated management and fragile rule of law is a matter of disappointment for Afghan civic society. They distrust and fed up with the NATO and government promises made during previous years of President Karzai administration. The transference of authority in public administration or to break up the supremacy of bureaucracy in order to make sure the efficient use of authority has been produced effective results in many emerging countries.

Then why such administrative amendments are not sufficiently implied in Afghan administration? A centralized education system, a centralized economic policy, a centralized heath-care system, and similar inefficient and ineffective centralized systems are bound to fail in Afghanistan as well as elsewhere. The long term achievements require long tem commitments but such commitments must ensure the clear and mass participation of Afghan population.

The Afghan Civic Society must have the equal participation during any legislative and political decision making process. Otherwise the bureaucracy or the notion of centralization is nothing more then fragile, unsuccessful and outdated formulas to reach and achieve the highlighted goals and objectives.

The Taliban-led insurgency, particularly in the south and east, the presence of illegal armed groups, and the illicit drug trade are the main security threats in Afghanistan.

The Taliban and their extremist allies lack a unified leadership, a popular ideology for Afghanistan, and a sustainable logistics support network inside the country. The key to the development of democracy and prosperity in Afghanistan is building a viable and capable state and a robust economy. The Bonn Process was dominated by an international agenda for security following the overthrow of the Taliban regime and their al Qaeda allies.

The post-Bonn process needs to be based on an Afghan agenda for long-term development as a key to sustained peace and stability.

The Bonn Process required Afghanistan to meet certain benchmarks toward democratic development. The succeeding process should identify how the international community can support the implementation of an Afghan development strategy over the next five years. The result should be a compact between the international community and the Afghan government on their joint effort to achieve a clearly defined end-state.



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