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The Afghan government asked for “clarification” following U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks Monday about being able to wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the earth” if he really wanted to win the war there. Responding to Trump’s comments on Tuesday, the office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said: Afghanistan is one of the most deep-rooted and ancient countries of the world have been able to overcome countless crisis during history. The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine its fate. Our cooperation and partnership with the world countries, particularly with the United States, is grounded on common interests and mutual respect. Given the multifaceted relationship between Afghanistan and the United States, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan calls for clarification on the US President’s statements expressed at a meeting with the Pakistan prime minister, via diplomatic means and channels. During a joint press conference at the White House with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, President Trump declared: If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone. It would be over in — literally, in 10 days. I don’t want to go that route. So we’re working with Pakistan and others to extricate ourselves [from Afghanistan]. Nor do we want to be policemen, because basically we’re policemen right now. And we’re not supposed to be policemen. We’ve been there for 19 years, in Afghanistan. It’s ridiculous. I think Pakistan helps us with that because we don’t want to stay as policemen. Asked to respond to Trump’s comments in a Fox News interview aired on Monday, PM Khan said: I guess what the president meant was that if he had a scorched earth policy, where a military machine went from one side of Afghanistan to the other. The US has the greatest fire power in the history of mankind. But clearly that would be devastating. Already people in Afghanistan have suffered four decades of conflict. The last thing Afghanistan needs is more violence and it needs peace. The Taliban should become a part of the political process, so then you would have a government which will represent the people of Afghanistan. Becoming part of the political process would grant the Taliban the opportunity to return to power in Kabul after it was removed by U.S. troops in late 2001, soon after the 9/11 attacks. Khan’s comments are consistent with the Trump administration’s Afghan strategy to end the war. The primary focus of Trump’s plan is to achieve a “political reconciliation” between the Taliban and Kabul. Trump administration officials have come out in support of legitimizing the Taliban as a political power despite the group’s well-documented human rights atrocities and involvement in the deadly opium and heroin trade. Taliban jihadis, who already control or contest about half of the country, are fighting to implement a sharia-compliant Islamic emirate in Afghanistan. Likely referring to the American military’s current train and advise mission, Trump suggested on Monday that the United States is no longer leading combat operations and, therefore, “not fighting the war.” Members of his administration have conceded that a military victory is not possible at this point in Afghanistan. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described winning in Afghanistan as achieving a “political reconciliation” between Kabul and the Taliban. “We do look toward a victory in Afghanistan,” Mattis proclaimed in March, adding, “Not a military victory — the victory will be a political reconciliation” with the Taliban. Although tensions have been brewing between neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan for years, Islamabad has taken credit for using its influence over the Taliban facilitate the group’s ongoing peace talks with the United States. Echoing comments by President Ghani in early 2018, a U.S. watchdog agency reported this March that Afghanistan would collapse without international funding, which along with the opium trade are the main drivers of the country’s economy. Most of the funding originates in the United States. Taliban terrorists claim the U.S. “promised” to keep funding Afghanistan after a potential American military withdrawal stemming from a peace deal. Despite U.S. peace-seeking efforts, the Taliban has intensified attacks during the negotiations and continued to refuse to allow Kabul to participate in the talks. The U.S. has spent nearly a $1 Trillion on the Afghanistan war. Terrorists, primarily the Taliban, have also killed 2,288 American service members and maimed 20,481 others. Nevertheless, the Taliban’s manpower and influence have reached unprecedented levels. Nearly 18 years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in response to the Taliban regime harboring al-Qaeda, the two jihadi allies remain close.
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तालिबानी लडाकुहरुले काबुल कब्जा गरेको १३ दिन भयो । तर यस अवधिमा सिंगो अफगानिस्तान उनीहरुको कब्जामा भने छैन । यहाँ तालिवान विरोधी शक्तिहरु पनि उत्तिकै सक्रिय छन् । त्यस्तै, अन्य धेरै आतंकवादी शक्तिहरु पनि शक्ति प्रदर्शनमा लागेका छन् । यसैको उदाहरण हो –बिहीबार काबुल विमानस्थलमा भएको आतंककारी हमला । यस बिस्फोटमा मर्नेको संख्या १ सय नाघिसकेको छ, आईएसआईएस–केले यो विस्फोटको जिम्मेवारी लिइसकेको छ । तालिवान यो समूहले अफगानिस्तान कब्जा गरेको घोषणा गर्दै विजय उत्सव मनाइसकेको छ । उसले आगामी मन्त्रिमण्डलमा सहभागी हुने आफ्ना नेताहरुको नाम पनि घोषणा गरिसकेको छ । तालिवानका झन्डै ८० हजार लडाकुहरुले २ लाखभन्दा धेरै संख्यामा रहेका अफगानी सेनालाई हराएर काबुल कब्जा गरेका हुन् । सन् १९९६ मा पनि उसले काबुल कब्जा गरेको थियो र त्यसको पाँच वर्षसम्म अफगानिस्तानमा शासन ग¥यो । २००१ मा अमेरिकी र नेटो सैनिकको हमलापछि तालिबानी सत्ता ढलेको थियो । त्यसपछि तितरवितर भएका लडाकुहरु फेरि जुटेर, नयाँ सदस्यहरु थप्दै तालिवानले काबुल कब्जा गरेको हो । अलकायदा कहाँ छ ? पछिल्ला वर्ष तालिबानले अलकायदासँगको सम्बन्धलाई चेक एन्ड ब्यालेन्समा राखेको छ, अलकायदा र अन्य आतंककारी समूहलाई अफगानी भूमी प्रयोग गर्न नदिने वाचा उसले २०२० मा गरेको थियो । तर, तालिबानले विभिन्न शहर र त्यहाँका जेल कब्जा गरेपछि जेलमा रहेका लडाकुहरुलाई रिहा गरेको थियो । यसक्रममा अलकायदाप्रति तालिबानी लडाकुले सद्भावन राख्दा अलकायदाका धेरै लडाकुहरु रिहा भएको विज्ञहरु बताउँछन् । उनीहरुले अब फेरि एकजुट भएर नयाँ दस्ता बनाउनसक्ने विज्ञहरुको आँकलन छ । आईएसआईएस–के आईएसआईएस–के खुरासन आतंकवादी समूह आईएसआईएस अर्थात् (ईस्लामिक स्टेट इन इराक एन्ड सिरिया) को शाखा संगठन हो । यसले अफगानिस्तान र पाकिस्तानमा रहेका जिहादीहरुलाई एकजुट गर्छ । बिहीबार काबुलस्थित हमिद कारजाई विमानस्थलमा यही समूहले बिस्फोट गराएको हो । २०१६ यता उसले काबुलमा पटक–पटक हमला गरिसकेको छ । यो संगठनले तालिबानलाई अमेरिकी कठपुतलीहरुको समूह मान्छ । तालिबान विरोधीहरु २० वर्षअघि जतिबेला काबुलमा तालिबानको सत्ता थियो, त्यतिबेला पनि उज्वेक र ताजाक दस्ताहरुको गठबन्धन नर्थन एलाईन्सले पन्जशीर उपत्यकामा उसलाई पस्न दिएको थिएन । र, अहिले फेरि तालिबानले पुरै देश कब्जा गरिसक्दा पनि यहाँ आफ्नो उपस्थिती देखाउन सकेको छैन । अर्थात्, काबुलबाट केवल १ सय ५० किलोमिटर टाढाको यस उपत्यकामा तालिबानले कहिल्यै कब्जा जमाएको इतिहास छैन । सेप्टेम्बर ११, २००१ मा अमेरिकामा हमला गर्नुभन्दा केहीअघि अलकायदाका लडाकुहरुले अफगानिस्तानमा नर्थन एलाइन्सका मुख्य नेता अहमद शाह मसुदको हत्या गरेका थिए । अहिले नेशनल फ्रन्ट अफ अफगानिस्तान नामक यस दस्तालाई मसुदका छोरा अहमद मसुदले हाँकिरहेका छन् । उनीहरु तालिबानविरुद्ध संघर्षरत छन् । तालिबानलाई पन्जशीरमा नछिर्न पनि उनीहरुले चेतावनी दिइसकेका छन् । यो गठबन्धनलाई तालिबानविरोधी अन्य गठबन्धनहरुको पनि सहयोग छ । अमेरिकाका सहयोगीहरु कहाँ छन् ? उनीहरु हिँडिसके । अफगानिस्तानका अपदस्थ राष्ट्रपति असरफ गनी विदेश भागिसकेका छन् । उपराष्ट्रपति अमरुल्लाह सलेह पन्जशिर उपत्यकामा छन् । राष्ट्रपतिले देश छाडेर हिँडेकाले आफुले उक्त जिम्मेवारी पाउने संवैधानिक प्रावधान रहेको भन्दै उनले यस विषयमा आफु छलफलमा रहेको धारणा केहीअघि राखेका थिए । अफगानिस्तानका पूर्व राष्ट्रपतिहरू तथा धेरै नेताहरु अहिले घरमै नजरबन्दमा छन् ।