The fall of Afghanistan and what Taliban 2.0 means for India, Pakistan and China

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Many days agone, during one of the most watched press conferences in the history of Afghanistan, Taliban prophet Zabihullah Mujahid declared that the war is over. Other Taliban leaders like Anas Haqqani echoed the same on their Twitter accounts. Indeed, the war that started about 20 times ago with the US irruption has ended.

The question, does that mean romantic peace now? Well, not exactly. The picture is hazy than utmost people suppose.

The estimates for the prognosticated collapse ranged from a many months to one or two times. What wasn’t anticipated at all was that this collapse could be within a matter of veritably many days. That is what’s meant by some US officers that there was an intelligence failure.

The failure was really about the extent of the benefit of the mistrustfulness that was given to the governance and its forces. As it latterly turned out, the governance collapsed at the first sight of Taliban at the Kabul megacity gates.

I used to say that it will not be that easy and it would probably take some weeks or indeed a month or two. That was my estimate and at the time my estimate was maybe the most pessimistic estimate among all the other Afghanistan judges and spectators I have known. But indeed my veritably estimate was proven to be wrong, and Kabul fell just a many days after that. So, the question is what happed?
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In numerous areas, locals absolutely abominated Afghan security forces as much as they abominated the foreign forces, thanks to the grave mortal rights violations by Afghan security forces. These locals saw foreign forces as defenders of the Afghan security forces who oppressed them and their townlets. The war lords were kept happy in colorful ways, including by ignoring their practices of’bacha bazi’and other serious felonious conditioning. Some of these same war worlds are presently in accommodations with Taliban to secure their futures.

The so- called public insurrection forces, or simply putpro-government regulars, that were trained and armed to prop Afghan security forces wasted no time in either surrendering or actually joining the Taliban ranks. The complete lack of grip on the public palpitation by governance officers meant that they simply had no idea of the public mood on the ground.aa