Occupying the presidential palace in Kabul, the triumphant Taliban leaders with bazookas of their arms proclaimed that “War has ended in Afghanistan”. Yet, from throughout Afghanistan, we see photos of hysteria, desperation, chaos, and concern. Winter has lastly arrived in Afghanistan.
The scenario calls for grappling with some critical questions: How has the Taliban regained territorial management over Afghanistan? How has the Taliban managed to be so sturdy, however efforts by America to convey it down? What has made this attainable? Among many causal explanations, the geopolitical economic system of opium will be traced as a believable issue that led to the Taliban’s victory.
As the tragic chaos on the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul continues, two interconnected political negotiations unfolding are more likely to decide Afghanistan’s instant future. One is focussed on constructing a brand new political order inside Afghanistan and the opposite is about gaining worldwide recognition for the incipient Taliban-led authorities.
Notwithstanding the present triumphalism in Pakistan at “overthrowing” the US-backed order in Kabul and “pushing” India out of Afghanistan, Delhi can afford to step again and sign that it may wait. For one, Rawalpindi is a long way away from establishing a brand new political order dominated by the Taliban. Then there’s the problem of securing the worldwide legitimacy of a Pakistan-backed order in Afghanistan and sustaining its future.
