Written By ::  Taus   Wardak , PhD

A bit about Taliban in Afghanistan :-

The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان‎ Taliban “students”), alternately spelled Taliban, is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country,From 1996 to 2001, it held power in Afghanistan and enforced a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, of which the international community and leading Muslims have been highly critical,Until his death in 2013, Mullah Mohammed Omar was the supreme commander and spiritual leader of the Taliban. Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was elected as his replacement in 2015,but as of November 2015 there are conflicting reports that he may have been killed or badly wounded,As of mid-2015, the group is “directly or indirectly” supported in Afghanistan by “about a dozen” militant groups, having “different goals and agendas,by direct support of American  Saudi Arabia and the Pakistani ( ISI ), mean while they have supotrs of some Mujaheddin leaders like ( Sayaf – Modjadadi – Pirgailani – Maulawi Khles – Mohammad Nabi and Hamid Karzai personally ,AshrafGhani , this movement was established by Nasurlah Baber  the Former Internal Minister of Pakistan , with the direct support of King Zahersha , this organisation was established By Pakistan because the Mujaheddin leaders didn’t obeyed and didn’t accept Pakistani orders and request , and the  and Pakistan were to defeat Mujaheddin by Taliban forhter information you can read in my book called ( Taliban and Mujaheddin are the two side of one coin ) .

The movement originated in the early 1990s, but was not fully unified until its 1994 capture of Kandahar  by dierict support of Pakistani commandos , Under the leadership of Mohammed Omar, the movement spread throughout most of Afghanistan, sequestering power from the Mujaheddin warlords, whose corruption and despotism Afghans had tired of. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was established in 1996 and the Afghan capital transferred to Kandahar. It held control of most of the country until being overthrown by the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in December 2001 following the September 11 attacks. At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban’s government was acknowledged by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The group later regrouped as an insurgency movement to fight the American-backed Karzai administration and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

The Taliban have been condemned internationally for their enforcement of (their interpretation of) Islamic Sharia law, which resulted in the brutal treatment of many Afghans, especially women,During their rule from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160,000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth, burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes,In its post-9/11 insurgency, the group has been accused of using terrorism as a specific tactic to further their ideological and political goals. According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, 80% in 2011, and 80% in 2012.

The Taliban’s ideology has been described as anti-modern, combining an “innovative form” of sharia Islamic law based on Deobandi fundamentalism,and the militant Islamism and Salafi jihadist of Asama bin Laden,and fienally  Daish  which is based  from Talib Fudamentalism , Hetlerism , racism , stupid islamism unlawfull rull , with Pashtun social and cultural norms known as Pashtunwaliwhich  is not true  it is against Pashtunwaly -against islam – against Afghanyat  ect , Talibanism is a Big shame for all Pashtoon tribe , because such brutal killers I never seen and never Heards in My life shame on Daish , Daish In Afghanistan formed from Fanatic  Taliban .

The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban during their founding and time in power, and of continuing to support the Taliban during the insurgency. Pakistan states that it dropped all support for the group after the September 11 attacks. Al-Qaeda also supported the Taliban with fighters from Arab countries and Central Asia. Saudi Arabia provided financial support  , and today also suporting Daish all over the globe . Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee  from Iraq ,Surya – Afghanistan  to  westurn countries and naburing countries .

  What does Pakistan want in Afghanistan?

Since April, 1978, when the Saur Revolution brought down President Daud’s regime, Afghans have been at war against the local communists, against invading Soviet forces and then  Modjahiddin  against  eachothers ( sony against Shia- Tajik against Hazara and Uzbik against all of then in result Kabul was distried and 70000 Kabully were killed between Hekmatyar and Ahmadsha Masood and Abdullah Abdullah ,This last power struggle caused greater material losses than the decade-long Soviet occupation. Taliban rule was a continuation of the same strife. The internecine war and then the Taliban ascendancy both had ethnic overtones — massacres of Hazaras by the Tajiks and then the Taliban, the killing of Uzbeks and then the slaughter of the Taliban in Mazar Sharif.

Peace in Afghanistan can be achieved with a measure of cooperation  among Afghan themselves , not just with Afghanistan  taliban  , but peace should be come with Pakistan – America – China – Russia – Saudi Arebia and India , this peace can be achived by almost  all political parties and non party organisations  in Afghanistan .

For  Pakistan Government and for Pakistan Political Parties , Pakistan’s proxies in Afghanistan were so astonishingly shortsighted. Pakistan’s foreign policy, and its own domestic policy of using religion as a political tool must start changing, it is leading us to ruin. Granted that America’s policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan are akin to a bull in a china shop, but we share this responsibility of moulding religion and ethnicity for ‘strategic depth’. It would be naive to assume that Pakistan will not try and influence Afghanistan after the NATO withdrawal, however, we can’t let it slip back oblivion. Its not good for us, nor is it good for the Afghan people.

But ex ISI chief General Mahmood was telling the Taliban not to give in to the American demands of handing over Osama. He even told the Taliban that Pakistan will be there to assist them in case of any invasion, so much hypocrisy. Pakistani establishment on the one hand helped the Taliban who were under their leash, sold those to the Americans who they thought were troublemakers,Pakistani’s glee at US defeat in Afghanistan they should be very very concerned about this outcome as this only will make US their sworn enemy and Pakistan their next target.

Pakistani people  should first worry about its own existence ????  its on a free fall and after US leaves and stops feeding the pakis..pak wil be totally disintegrated…its never grown or developed economically since it was formed…it only existed to spread terror to its neighbors.speially in Afghanistan , and  the Pakistani   forgot  Afghan deep rancour   that they will get revange after decade , now after US leaves   , Afghanistan .it will be so unbalanced and will disintegrate…so instead of worrying about Afghanistan, pak should first ensure its existence on world map in danger and the people of Afghanistan will stand shoulder to shoulders with each others and fought against Pakistan , Pakistan think they Have atom bomb , rocket and different kind of weapons , but the Afghan will show when they dicided to wakeup and start war with their old and historical  enemy nomber one ( Pakista ), again our people will go to Attak Rever where it is their Historical border and their Atom bomb will exploded on themselves  heads .

When  American and NATO combat troops scheduled to depart Afghanistan in 2014 the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan has become more important   closer  than ever. It is a complex and complicated nexus. Without doubt, Pakistan and its intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate of the army (ISI), have more influence over the Taliban than any other country or intelligence service, becaus  each Talib leader – commander – holly Mullah – tribe famus heavy weight person got a lots of care and money from( ISI ) and those , reporter , spy , mercenary Taliban sale themselves to  (  ISI  ), because  Pakistan  provides critical safe haven and sanctuary to the groups’ leadership, advice on military and diplomatic issues, and assistance with fund raising. But the Pakistani  influence is not  yet  completed , also it is not clear  what is (  ISI  )  secret plan  for peace in Afghanistan , I only can em-again that  the American and the Britsh council is also not clear to Pakistan ,   Pakistan could persuade the Taliban to settle for a political settlement in Afghanistan, is unclear yet , unfortunately Mr AshrafGhani and Mr Abdullah  the two leaders of the Unity Government of Afghanistan  absolutely dont   know what is going on behind their backbone , between Pakistan ISI and the Taliban .

 Why  Pakistan’s Support for Survival and Revival of the Taliban in Afghanistan ???

Pakistan has been intimately associated with the Taliban since its birth in the mid-1990s. The ISI provided support to Mullah Omar when he founded the organisation in Kandahar. they  had trained Omar even earlier in the 1980s at one of its training camps for the mujaheddin that fought the Soviet occupation of the country. Pakistan was one of only three countries that recognized the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the legitimate government of Afghanistan in the late 1990s (Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the other two). By 2001, Pakistan was providing the Taliban regime in Kabul with hundreds of advisers and experts to run its tanks, aircraft and artillery, thousands of Pakistani Pashtuns to man its infantry and small units of its Special Services Group commandoes to help in combat with the Northern Alliance. Pakistan provided the oil needed to run the Taliban’s war machine. All of this despite a half dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions calling on all countries to cease aid to the Taliban because it was hosting al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. According to the 9/11 Commission, the ISI had mid-wifed the alliance between Mullah Omar and bin Laden, so it was no surprise that Pakistan ignored the UN   resolution many time , meanwhile withen 14 years during the Hamid Karzai 13 years and the second year of AshrafGhani stell Pakistan  playing differently and very cunningly   policy ,and not lessening to UN and the Americans , acting like  fax with her tail .

After 9/11, American and allied forces intervened in Afghanistan with a UN mandate and toppled the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The defeated Taliban fighters were ordered by Mullah Omar to scatter and avoid further direct confrontation with the enemy while they regrouped. Many just went home. The leadership and the hard core fled south from Kandahar into Pakistan. Most relocated in Baluchistan around the city of Quetta, where Omar himself settled. He began rebuilding his Taliban in exile. By 2004, it resumed the war inside Afghanistan. Pakistan gave it critical help and assistance. Without it, the Taliban would never have recovered. A NATO study published in 2012 based on the interrogations of 4000 captured Taliban, al-Qaeda and other fighters in Afghanistan in over 27,000 interrogations concluded that ISI support was critical to the survival and revival of the Taliban after 2001 just as it was critical to its conquest of Afghanistan in the 1990s. It provides sanctuary, training camps, expertise and help with fund raising. Pakistani officers have been killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan operating under cover with Taliban forces. The NATO report concluded “the ISI is thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel.”

Mullah Omar, who calls himself the Commander of the Faithful, is believed by most experts to be in Quetta and Karachi under the protection of the ISI. He had not appeared in public in years, however, and issues only occasional statements. He continued  to be portrayed by the group as fully in command and the ultimate decision maker for the organisation. He had never broken publicly with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and after the American commando mission killed bin Laden in 2011, Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership openly mourned the loss of the mastermind of 9/11. For its part, al-Qaeda continues to recognize Mullah Omar as the commander of the faithful and pledge allegiance to him.

Karzai’s Ultimatum

On his last days of his governing , after years of indirect talks between the Taliban, Washington, Kabul and several other third parties, the Qatari government allowed the Taliban to open an office in Doha with the Taliban flag flying and signs proclaiming the office represented the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. For President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan government, the symbolism was unacceptable. Instead of treating the Taliban as an insurgency or a political partner or a gang of terrorists, they got the symbols of statehood. For Karzai and his government, the announcement, the flag and signs conceded the legitimacy of the Taliban’s claim to be the authentic government of Afghanistan and implied that the NATO forces are nothing more than a foreign occupation illegally backing up a rogue regime. Karzai suspended talks with Washington on a post 2014 long term security agreement until the Afghan Taliban agree to hold negotiations directly with his government.

Kabul was also disturbed that the US also backed down on its longstanding demand that the Taliban break publicly with al-Qaeda. Instead the Taliban made vague statements about never letting ‘their country’ be used for terrorism against another. That echoes the Taliban’s statements before and after 9/11 that al-Qaeda was not engaged in attacks on American targets despite all the obvious evidence. al-Qaeda fighters are still on the battlefield in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban.

The Taliban’s Pakistani patrons, the army and the ISI were very pleased with the outcome. They control the lives of the leadership in Pakistan and the lives of the Taliban team in Doha. As the former head of Afghan intelligence, Amrullah Saleh, likes to point out that the Taliban negotiators fly home to Karachi from Doha whenever they want to see their boss or their families. They are not independent players.

Limits to Pak Control

But there are some limits to Pakistani control of the Afghan Taliban. Even when Mullah Omar was in power in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, he refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Afghan-Pakistani border demarcated by the British in the 1890s, the so called Durand line, and new adays some racist Tajik or Dari zoban Afghan said that Durand line is already gone and signe with Pakistan , ignoring the Mullah Umar rejiction of Signening the paper , this happend mony time in the  history that Pakistani Leaders came to Afghanistan and asked Noormohammad Taraki and , DR Najibullah , to signe the Durind line including Hamid Karzai , no one agreed to Signed the Durand line with Pakistan , and in the future also no one can sign this bloody line ,because  we dont recognize Pakistan as a country , to claim the mentioned border because Pakistan was establish in 1947 and the line was sign in 1893 with Mir Temor Durand of the UK , and our King Abdulrahmankhan .

Taliban  knew that the American Administration wants to betrayed  the people of America like while they said that Sadam Husaian have Chemical weapons , now the CIA  spreading such idea  or rumors  that ISIS  are the new big challenge for Afghanistan and we the American should stand beside the Afghan army , it just lying and nonsense , or not true , this only for the American peoples to draw their attentions of american invasions ,this is useless economic and human resource losses  for the American ,World powers seek unlikely alliance with Taliban as ‘interests coincide’ in battle against shared enemy Isis  ,  Hundreds of British and American lives were lost fighting the Islamist group during the West’s ‘war on terror’. Now, the threat from the caliphate has drastically changed the political landscape.

what the Pakistan do finally ??

It is an open question whether Pakistan could  put  pressure  on  the Afghan Taliban to make a deal with Kabul on a political settlement of the war. It could certainly make life very difficult for Mullah Mansoor  and his lieutenants if they did not agree to a Pakistani supported deal. If it chooses to shut down sanctuaries and training camps, the Taliban would be under enormous pressure to accept a Pakistani diktat. But all of that seems highly unlikely. Pakistan’s generals believe America and NATO are going to return back to Afghanistan and help Afghanistan army , and i guise that the NATO want to build modern Afghanistan and joined it to NATO countries and Afghanistan will be NATO allied country , for this reason i think Pakistan will accept peace demand by his Allied country China , that mean very much possible peace in Afghanistan and Taliban will get some key Ministries and provenances in Afghanistan and that will be the end of 38 years war in Afghanistan .