Exiled Afghan warlords form resistance council to fight Taliban

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Exiled Afghan warlords form resistance council to fight Taliban​

AFP Published May 20, 2022 - Updated about an hour ago




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Female presenters, with uncovered faces, have become common on Afghan screen in recent years.—AFP/File
KABUL/GENEVA: Former Afghan warlords and exiled politicians announced the creation of a High Council of National Resistance against the Taliban on Thursday, calling on the Islamists to form a more inclusive government or risk civil war.
Since the Taliban surged back to power on the heels of a hasty withdrawal of US troops last year, there have been only limited and sporadic attempts to resist their rule.
But on Tuesday 40 political figures met in Ankara by invitation of former Afghan vice-president and warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who found refuge in Turkey after Kabul fell in August.
Participants said their council should pave the way for the “liberation” of Afghanistan, the group said in a statement on Thursday.
“We demand the Taliban end their destruction and set the table for talks to find solutions to the current problems of Afghanistan,” they said.
The Islamists “should learn from the experiences of history that no group can have a stable government through acts of force and pressure”, the council added.
Founding members of the council include former Balkh province governor Atta Mohammad Noor, leader of the Hazara community Mohammad Mohaqiq, and Ahmad Wali Massoud of the National Resistance Front (NRF), the main group currently waging an armed insurgency against the government. Long-time Taliban opponent and warlord Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf is also a signatory.
The council’s aim is “to try to solve the problems of Afghanistan through talks”, a spokesman for Dostum said. “The Taliban should accept that they can’t run the government or rule alone”, otherwise “Afghanistan will experience civil war once again”, he said.
At the beginning of the week, the Taliban announced the creation of a commission that would contact politicians in exile.
Taliban officials have said they hope to convene an assembly of citizens, tribal leaders and religious heads to discuss the topic of “national unity”.
However, after making promises for an inclusive government, the Islamists in September formed an executive comprised exclusively of Taliban members, and almost entirely from the ethnic Pashtun group.
The new rulers in Kabul are already facing attacks from the NRF led by Ahmad Massoud — son of late commander Ahmad Shah Massoud — who has stepped up assaults in his former Panjshir valley stronghold.
In its statement, the council said it considers armed resistance to the Taliban “legitimate”.
UN slams closure of rights body
The United Nations on Thursday slammed the Taliban’s closure of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), calling it a “deeply retrograde step”.
Since the Taliban seized power last August the hardline Islamists have closed several bodies that protected the freedoms of Afghans, including the electoral commission and the ministry for women’s affairs.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said she was “dismayed” at the dissolution.
“The AIHRC performed extraordinary work in extremely difficult conditions over many years, shining a spotlight on the human rights of all Afghans, including victims on all sides of the conflict,” she said in a statement.
“It has however, been unable to operate on the ground since August.
“The AIHRC has been a powerful voice for human rights and a trusted partner of UN Human Rights, and its loss will be a deeply retrograde step for all Afghans and Afghan civil society.”
The work of the commission, which included documenting civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s two-decade war, was halted when the Taliban ousted a US-backed government last year and the body’s top officials fled the country.
Bachelet said that during her visit to Kabul in March, she discussed with the de facto authorities the importance of re-establishing an independent human rights mechanism that can receive public complaints and bring concerns to the authorities.
Published in Dawn, May 20th, 2022

 

[RescueRanger]

Exiled Afghan warlords form resistance council to fight Taliban​

AFP Published May 20, 2022 - Updated about an hour ago




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Female presenters, with uncovered faces, have become common on Afghan screen in recent years.—AFP/File
KABUL/GENEVA: Former Afghan warlords and exiled politicians announced the creation of a High Council of National Resistance against the Taliban on Thursday, calling on the Islamists to form a more inclusive government or risk civil war.
Since the Taliban surged back to power on the heels of a hasty withdrawal of US troops last year, there have been only limited and sporadic attempts to resist their rule.
But on Tuesday 40 political figures met in Ankara by invitation of former Afghan vice-president and warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who found refuge in Turkey after Kabul fell in August.
Participants said their council should pave the way for the “liberation” of Afghanistan, the group said in a statement on Thursday.
“We demand the Taliban end their destruction and set the table for talks to find solutions to the current problems of Afghanistan,” they said.
The Islamists “should learn from the experiences of history that no group can have a stable government through acts of force and pressure”, the council added.
Founding members of the council include former Balkh province governor Atta Mohammad Noor, leader of the Hazara community Mohammad Mohaqiq, and Ahmad Wali Massoud of the National Resistance Front (NRF), the main group currently waging an armed insurgency against the government. Long-time Taliban opponent and warlord Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf is also a signatory.
The council’s aim is “to try to solve the problems of Afghanistan through talks”, a spokesman for Dostum said. “The Taliban should accept that they can’t run the government or rule alone”, otherwise “Afghanistan will experience civil war once again”, he said.
At the beginning of the week, the Taliban announced the creation of a commission that would contact politicians in exile.
Taliban officials have said they hope to convene an assembly of citizens, tribal leaders and religious heads to discuss the topic of “national unity”.
However, after making promises for an inclusive government, the Islamists in September formed an executive comprised exclusively of Taliban members, and almost entirely from the ethnic Pashtun group.
The new rulers in Kabul are already facing attacks from the NRF led by Ahmad Massoud — son of late commander Ahmad Shah Massoud — who has stepped up assaults in his former Panjshir valley stronghold.
In its statement, the council said it considers armed resistance to the Taliban “legitimate”.
UN slams closure of rights body
The United Nations on Thursday slammed the Taliban’s closure of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), calling it a “deeply retrograde step”.
Since the Taliban seized power last August the hardline Islamists have closed several bodies that protected the freedoms of Afghans, including the electoral commission and the ministry for women’s affairs.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said she was “dismayed” at the dissolution.
“The AIHRC performed extraordinary work in extremely difficult conditions over many years, shining a spotlight on the human rights of all Afghans, including victims on all sides of the conflict,” she said in a statement.
“It has however, been unable to operate on the ground since August.
“The AIHRC has been a powerful voice for human rights and a trusted partner of UN Human Rights, and its loss will be a deeply retrograde step for all Afghans and Afghan civil society.”
The work of the commission, which included documenting civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s two-decade war, was halted when the Taliban ousted a US-backed government last year and the body’s top officials fled the country.
Bachelet said that during her visit to Kabul in March, she discussed with the de facto authorities the importance of re-establishing an independent human rights mechanism that can receive public complaints and bring concerns to the authorities.
Published in Dawn, May 20th, 2022

The world has given up on Afghanistan. There is no political or economic mileage in helping anyone retake the country.

The power brokers are just sitting and watching as the country implodes in on itself.

 

[kingQamaR]

The fact that Taliban was able to easily take control of the country shows that the people who support are more numerous

 

[RescueRanger]

I’m not shocked. Pakistan had its own western poodles so does Afghanistan. They are no Ukrainians resistance fighters , afghans opposition are just mostly ex junkies of bunch of pervs and drugs lords.

Nahi yar - comparing Afghans to Ukrainians is a bad example in my opinion and unfair - Afghans have been fighting a war for over 30 years and never truly saw peace.

Also their so called commando resistance was led by Saleh an idiot who didn’t understand military tactics - he went and burrowed deep in Panjshir Valley - a location so remote and so tactically disadvantageous to the defender in modern combat that even his western backers told him “no help is coming”.

Afghan Army was made up of ghost soldiers - when the taliban started capturing territory prior to ISAF withdrawal it was only the police and a few units of Commandos that fought back.

Entire divisions just collapsed overnight - because bother doesn’t want to fight brother - the US didn’t vet the soldiers they were recruiting and hiring commanders who were hazara/Tajik only meant that tHose commanders had neither the respect nor loyalty of the Pashtun speaking Afghan majority in the army.

I have worked in Afghanistan and trained their police - so I know that Afghans by and large are hard bastards - but this was a gradual rot of the entire false demagogy set up by the US and her allies - and they knew it - countless SIGAR reports warned that the nation was teetering on the brink of collapse.

Afghanistan is food, fuel and economically insecure. It has a very limited biosphere and has been in famine from 2021.

Beyond Kabul every other city and town was underdeveloped and disillusioned with the government. The issue of Afghanistan is much too complex to compare it with Ukraine.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

despite all the odds against them, IEA has been able to make a pretty balanced budget!
They r fine, nothing is going to happen.

 

[fitpOsitive]

The world has given up on Afghanistan.

I don't think so. Afghanistan is the war switch of Asia.
Where there is a war, USA is either directly or indirectly getting her share in sales.

 

[RescueRanger]

I don't think so. Afghanistan is the war switch of Asia.
Where there is a war, USA is either directly or indirectly getting her share in sales.

I’m taking from a humanitarian and development perspective. Have you seen the latest report by WFP on the situation in the country?

Yeah…

 

[El Sidd]

Bunch of warlords talking about peace and development.

 

[kingQamaR]

I’m taking from a humanitarian and development perspective. Have you seen the latest report by WFP on the situation in the country?

Yeah…

Wow, your a veteran of Afghanistan Yar.

It’s not helped US has frozen Afghanistan overseas bank accounts so Taliban cannot buy or trade with others. Afghanistan has about $10 billion in offshore accounts it cannot use because of the US actions. The UN is going hat in hand to raise $5 billion to tide Afghanistan for at least a year. China is supplying aid, but China alone cannot provide all it needs.

 

[Thinker3]

Very hypocritical of Turkey to give refuge to war criminals like Dostum, host a meeting to form a resistance and then blame other countries of hosting anti Turkey groups and even attacking Iraq and Syria.

 

[SD 10]

Very hypocritical of Turkey to give refuge to war criminals like Dostum, host a meeting to form a resistance and then blame other countries of hosting anti Turkey groups and even attacking Iraq and Syria.

they will always push for Turkish nationalism in this area...what Pakistan needs to do is to ensure that never happens! turkey must not have an inch of land in Afghanistan!

 

[PakAlp]

Turkey/Tajikistan are supporting the Turkic people in Afghanistan. They have a great chance to make allies and have a future in Afghanistan through development, trade, security, culture, language.

Afghan population is:
42% Pashtun
9% Hazaras (Persian
27% Tajikis (Turkic but speak persian)
9% Uzbekh (Turkic)
3% Turk

As you can see, Turkish influence cannot be ignored in Afghanistan, Tajikistan will also have alot of influence. These communities are different from the Taliban, they may have not resisted them but if problems arise then civil war could take place.

By 2040 Turkic nations will form a joint Block and Joint army, they will protect their beautiful culture and way of life. The Taliban on the other hands are completely different.

 

[SD 10]

Turkey/Tajikistan are supporting the Turkic people in Afghanistan. They have a great chance to make allies and have a future in Afghanistan through development, trade, security, culture, language.

Afghan population is:
42% Pashtun
9% Hazaras (Persian
27% Tajikis (Turkic but speak persian)
9% Uzbekh (Turkic)
3% Turk

As you can see, Turkish influence cannot be ignored in Afghanistan, Tajikistan will also have alot of influence. These communities are different from the Taliban, they may have not resisted them but if problems arise then civil war could take place.

By 2040 Turkic nations will form a joint Block and Joint army, they will protect their beautiful culture and way of life. The Taliban on the other hands are completely different.

not gonna happen!

 

[Hamza913]

Turkey/Tajikistan are supporting the Turkic people in Afghanistan. They have a great chance to make allies and have a future in Afghanistan through development, trade, security, culture, language.

Afghan population is:
42% Pashtun
9% Hazaras (Persian
27% Tajikis (Turkic but speak persian)
9% Uzbekh (Turkic)
3% Turk

As you can see, Turkish influence cannot be ignored in Afghanistan, Tajikistan will also have alot of influence. These communities are different from the Taliban, they may have not resisted them but if problems arise then civil war could take place.

By 2040 Turkic nations will form a joint Block and Joint army, they will protect their beautiful culture and way of life. The Taliban on the other hands are completely different.

Get your tongue out of their backside

 

[PakAlp]

not gonna happen!

Talking about the future. The Taliban will not always rule by the gun and their Saudi petrodollar promoted culture will be eradicated.