Last Wednesday, March 30, American drones attacked the largest Taliban ammunition depot in Shurabak, Helmand province. According to some reports, 30 Taliban were killed in the attack, and the warehouse was completely destroyed.
Author: Ahmad Saidi
After the Americans attacked the Boston base, Taliban weapons and ammunition depot in Helmand province, and the news was published in the national and international media, the question arose whether the United States would return to Afghanistan. Will Afghanistan again be in the spotlight of the world community or not?
There are three factors that will once again make the Afghan issue global.
1 - ISIS issue:
The ISIS group, revived and rebuilt in Iraq and some parts of the Middle East, mainly in the Arab world, complicating the situation in different countries, was gradually contained after total global actions, and its negative consequences are still being felt, worries the affected people. A branch of this movement called Khorasan has been said to have been active in Afghanistan for several years, raising concerns among political and security experts inside Afghanistan, as well as posing a threat to the countries of the region and the world.
2 - Al-Qaeda:
Al-Qaeda is a well-known terrorist organization with an active presence in Afghanistan, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The group's most notorious attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania took place in the 1990s, and the most disastrous attacks were on September 11, 2001, on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York, United States.
Global media and intelligence sources have reported on the presence and activities of the group since the Taliban re-asserted control of Afghanistan, raising concern about the dangers posed by this terrorist organization and causing even more concern in the world.
While Taliban officials dismiss these allegations as groundless and say they will be empowered to deter any threat, it is clear that they are providing Afghan identity cards, as well as Afghan passports to protect ISIS and al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan, that can travel across the world and this causes concern of the world community.
3 - Drugs and human rights violations:
Since the Taliban came back to power, international organizations have again resorted to widespread human rights violations, flagrant social discrimination, gender discrimination, violations of the rights of women and girls, prohibition of women and girls from studying and working, serial killings, and field trials, violation of privacy rights, prohibition and restriction of freedom of speech, poverty, and unemployment, cultivation, production, and smuggling of drugs, forced migration of people, the mass exodus of people from Afghanistan to other countries and dozens of other cases, which are called catastrophic in the internal environment and potentially prepared the public consciousness for any action against the rule of the Taliban.
Accordingly, Pakistan Army Chief of Staff Javed Qamar Bajwa warned the world of a possible repeat of the 9/11 attacks, and former US President Donald Trump warned against forcing US troops to return to Afghanistan, pointing to such a possibility.
But the bombings that the Americans are now carrying out and will carry out in Helmand, or in other parts of Afghanistan after that, are temporarily aimed at destroying weapons and ammunition left by themselves.
After the Americans destroy their weapons and ammunition, then a global decision may be made, but it is too early to say whether more Americans will return to Afghanistan tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
*This organization is under UN sanctions due to terrorist activities.
