Afghanistan: UN Monitoring Team Findings – OpEd |
The Afghanistan debate has been there since the Taliban rule and there is a small question that has dominated the discussion; can the nation be more stable since one power has been able to seize control of the land? This question, according to the recent report of the United Nations Security Council Monitoring Team is incomplete, and perhaps deceptive. Stability sensitivity on the basis of the decline of open warfare ignores the causes of the national security such as legitimacy, inclusion, and the sustainability of the social institutions. Those would be the measures on which Afghanistan is failing to be stabilized. It is being weakened. Taliban repression policy, especially those organized and executed by the Supreme Leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has proved to be the most significant long-term security risk to the nation.
What the Taliban have created is a state that is governed by decree, surveillance and punishment. It is not only an ideological decision but a form of government. The trend of Akhundzada of Kandahar leadership is illustrated on how the decision-making process is not open to social responsibility and how disobedience is promoted as a religious obligation. The problem of political dispute is not debated as a normal occurrence of government, but an evil. The outcomes of that attitude are predictable: the decline in civic space, the loss of faith in citizens and the state, and pluralist criminalization. Such considerations in the long run cripple the very order, of which the Taliban are so much parading themselves as having........