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One year after Taliban took power, Afghanistan still has a long way to go

2022-08-16T00:34:32.535Z


A year after the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan is in a humanitarian crisis worse than it was a year ago. Half of Afghanistan's population suffers from severe food shortages, according to figures from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in July this year.


A year after the Taliban seized power, Afghanistan is in a humanitarian crisis worse than it was a year ago.

According to figures from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in July this year, half of Afghanistan's population is suffering from severe food shortages.

It is not uncommon for people to change their jobs and women to beg for food on the street. There are even media reports documenting the tragic incidents of people betraying their children, and some families starved to death.


At the same time, although there are no more wars between the original government forces and the Taliban in various places, the violent incidents have been greatly reduced, and the improvement of public security has improved the lives of people in many rural areas, but the terrorist attacks have not stopped.


Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, a Taliban religious leader, was killed in a bomb attack by the local Islamic State (IS) group in Kabul on August 11, just before the Taliban took power for one year.

A spate of terrorist attacks have killed more than 100 Shia Muslims in the past few days, on the 8th of August, the 10th day of the Shiite Ashura (the tenth day of the first month of the Islamic calendar). The Sunni Taliban took advantage of the situation to cancel the celebration of Ashura.

In addition to the terrorist attacks by the IS group, the Taliban, mainly from the Pashtun ethnic group in southern Afghanistan, also have to deal with the long-standing tensions between them and various ethnic groups in the north.

In addition to the domestic security situation, Afghanistan has gradually become a hotbed of extremist groups, and began to threaten the security of neighboring countries.

Pakistan, which has been secretly helping the Taliban regain power, has now become a major victim.

The Pakistani side has always believed that the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), which is also loyal to the Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, has secretly colluded with India to carry out terrorist activities with the idea of ​​implementing Islamic law in Pakistan.

However, after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, the TTP forces gained momentum in Afghanistan, and continued to launch attacks in Pakistan.

In 2021, when the Taliban gradually conquered the whole of Afghanistan, the number of terrorist attacks by TTP in Pakistan increased by 84% compared with the previous year.

Some counterterrorism personnel in the border area with Afghanistan say that the TPP was reborn as the Taliban took power, increasing the attack on Pakistani law enforcement personnel.

On the side of Central Asian countries north of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan's border areas have been hit by missiles several times in recent months.

While the local ISIS has acknowledged responsibility, some observers see it as one of the examples of the Taliban and ISIS being "in line".

On the issue of the "East Turkestan Islamic Movement" that China is concerned about, the United Nations reported in May this year that the Taliban did move Uyghur Islamic Movement personnel from the border provinces of China and Afghanistan to avoid posing a security threat to China.

However, the Taliban did not send ETIM members to China as the Chinese side wished.

At the same time, the ISIS group that continues to run rampant in Afghanistan has also expressed its desire to launch attacks on modern Chinese cities to "revenge" the Uyghur Muslims...

At a time of humanitarian crisis, unstable domestic security, and rampant terrorist organizations, the Taliban still regard religious pursuits and ideological goals as their top priority.

A year of relative peace has not seen the dawn of Afghanistan.

In the forgetfulness of the international community, Afghanistan seems to have become a time bomb waiting to shake the world again.

For details, please read the 330th issue of "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly (August 15, 2022) "

Afghanistan still has a long way to go on the first anniversary of the Taliban taking power

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Source: hk1

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