Recently the Taliban have ordered an indefinite ban on college schooling for the nation’s ladies, the Ministry of Higher Education mentioned in a letter issued to all authorities and personal universities. Before this drastic choice final 12 months, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs was dissolved. And the sinister Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has been re-established. This clearly illustrates that the Taliban will proceed with its medieval conservative interpretation of Islam. They are nothing greater than an extremist group that has grabbed energy. In addition to that, the Taliban remains to be nurturing international jihadi components; they only outrightly lie that they don’t have any international ambitions. This was clearly illustrated when in August final 12 months, a US drone killed Al-Qaeda’s chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a Kabul condominium reportedly owned by Taliban’s senior chief and inside minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. Afghanistan, after the Taliban’s takeover, has turn into a haven for international and regional terror outfits like Al-Qaeda, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which search the overthrow of the Pakistani state. Anti-Beijing Turkistan Islamic Party (previously the East Turkestan Islamic Movement). And the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Jamaat Ansarullah, which targets Tajikistan. Islamic Emirate has turned the nation right into a sanctuary for international jihadist organisations.

Taliban 2.zero has confirmed to be not a lot totally different from its earlier model by way of harboring an ultra-conservative ideology, insurance policies, and practices. Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s supreme chief, has, in his speeches, recurrently emphasised that the battle doesn’t finish in Afghanistan however goes past its borders to assist all oppressed Muslims all through the world. So, suppose the worldwide group doesn’t need Afghanistan become a hub for terrorism. In that case, the most suitable choice is to help the Anti-Taliban resistance teams, which can even be cheaper than sustaining any type of armed presence. Around 40 Afghan warlords and exiled politicians convened a gathering and shaped a High Council of National Resistance in Ankara in May 2022. To showcase that their respective anti-Taliban resistance can kind a united entrance. The members embrace former Balkh province governor Atta Mohammad Noor, National Resistance Front (NRF) member Ahmad Wali Massoud, and Shia chief Mohammad Mohaqiq.

The most essential group main the resistance is the National Resistance Front (NRF), the most important anti-Taliban armed group. It’s believed to have a number of thousand fighters and is led by Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. Despite the restricted sources, the NRF is gaining floor primarily because of Taliban failings and their profitable operations. The killing of Mullah Zakir Qayyum, an essential Taliban commander, by NRF in September final 12 months showcased this. It has turn into self-evident in Afghanistan that after an armed resistance group positive factors a foothold in an space, it turns into arduous to root out. This is extra so if it could actually mobilise a level of native help and operates in a geographically distant space. Since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Islamists, NRF seems to have achieved simply that within the provinces of Panjshir, Baghlan, and Parwan within the nation’s northeast. This has been performed regardless of important odds and with out a lot outdoors help.

Ideologically, NRF embraces a reasonable central Asian Islamic custom espousing purpose and cultural propagation. It advocates a decentralised political system in Afghanistan based mostly on elections and promotes equality no matter gender, ethnicity, sectarian or linguistic origin. The NRF has the potential to ascertain territorial enclaves if supplied with cash and armaments in its northeastern strongholds. With help from the United Nations, it might additionally restore some public providers. Most importantly, it might carry again schooling for women and supply refuge for these at instant threat of persecution like Afghanistan’s Shia group. International humanitarian assist in NRF-controlled areas may additionally provide an answer to the possible migration of hundreds of thousands of Afghans to neighbouring areas and to Europe.

With home and outdoors help, maybe the NRF might play its half not solely in bringing down the Taliban however in establishing a extra reasonable and consultant authorities to take its place. In a latest interview with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Ali Nazari, the top of overseas relations of the NRF, mentioned that they’re pursuing a resistance technique divided into varied phases. He mentioned they’re now within the first stage of gathering energy within the countryside whereas exhausting their enemy. The NRF hopes to maneuver to the following stage of the insurgency by liberating choose areas of the nation, permitting them to realize the sources for the ultimate stage of combating large-scale battles to overthrow Taliban rule.

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It’s a matter of incontrovertible fact that now NRF is probably the most liberal and democratic pressure that may be relied on as a counterterrorism ally in Afghanistan. Also, the United States and its allies ought to strengthen the NRF to combat different terrorist teams in Afghanistan. This method is already efficiently being utilized by the West in Syria and Iraq by supporting Kurdish fighters to combat towards the Islamic State.

(The author is a columnist for the Middle East and Afghanistan-Pakistan area and Editor of the geo-political information company ViewsAround)