We must stand up against a wave of biased efforts from around the world and show that the only way to be proud and return our credit and honor is this resistance.
Author: Abdunasir Nurzad, researcher of national security and geopolitics, especially for "Sangar"
Why does the enemy of the people want to downplay the people's resistance against the Taliban? This question requires several answers, which must be referred to the essence of its subject.
The Taliban surprised everyone in the field of politics and war, but in the field of psychology and mastering mentalities, they have still suffered bitter defeats. Now, efforts are being made to downplay this resistance. Because the resistance is actually moving in the desired direction, an attempt is made to damage it by anesthetizing the psychological atmosphere. Now they have raised the question that to what extent is armed resistance possible in Afghanistan? How many people are ready to resist and can they get help from other countries? Basically, raising these questions means nullifying the efforts to stand against the Taliban. We should not give a new aspect to the questions, especially in the situation where the enemy is trying to purify his terrorist identity in the name of political propaganda and downplaying the importance of the nation against the existing situation.
It must be said that the resistance is actually going on. The amount of casualties and damages inflicted on the Taliban last year by the resistance fronts shows that the potential of resistance and resistance against the Taliban actually exists. However, we can say that the discussion of armed resistance against the Taliban has continued since the first days of the fall of the Republic. But unfortunately, in the mentally disturbed atmosphere and the press, efforts are being made to show the presence and influence of these worthless fronts. What has just been proposed to mobilize everyone on the axis of armed resistance is actually a call for which the ground has already been paved. A call that may be late. It means that there is nothing new that should happen. Because there was resistance and actually armed resistance against the Taliban and their allied foreign terrorists is going on in several fronts. The heavy pressure of group and guerilla attacks against the Taliban has caused this group to establish and build a base in northern Afghanistan, especially in Panjshir province. Last year also, the Taliban suffered losses due to guerrilla and aggressive attacks by resistance groups. This shows that there is still hope for the fight against the Taliban, which could not be clearly included in the agenda of the neighboring countries and the Shanghai region. Last year, the Taliban lost about two thousand people. This volume of casualties shows that the resistance has strengthened its foundations. Finally, we have to wait a little and be patient until the regional security processes, led by the countries of the Shanghai region, become aware of the main nature of the Taliban as a group that creates a platform for ethnic terrorism and change their position.
At present, various fronts are considerably active in different areas of Afghanistan, especially in the north and northeast of Afghanistan. The National Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud is active in the northern and eastern provinces as well as in the center. It is estimated that around four thousand people are active in this front. This front has been able to keep a number of its forces in the mountains of Panjshir and gradually expand its forces and operational area. Currently, Massoud and other members of this front are staying in Tajikistan. The National Liberation Front currently carries out anti-Taliban operations in the provinces of Andrab, Takhar, Kunduz and Badakhshan. The Free Afghan Front, which has no symbolic leader, is active in Kabul, Kapisa, Khost and Parwan provinces and has connections with the "National Resistance Front" led by Ahmad Massoud. We can mention these as examples that they are actually active in different fronts against the Taliban.
But the situation is that the neighboring countries, especially the Shanghai area, such as Russia and China, which also includes the countries of Central Asia, are in an unwanted security interaction with the Taliban, and they refrain from any political and logistical support against the Taliban. Currently, Tajikistan and a certain level Iran are contributing to the resistance process. But the matter becomes serious when the countries of the Shanghai area understand the danger of the Taliban as a regime that creates a platform for terrorism at the regional level. At that time, with the help of other countries, we can hope for the legitimate resistance process of the Afghan people against Taliban terrorism and their foreign allies.
The danger of terrorism is increasing every day in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban. As the biggest threat to the security of the region, the Taliban have the duty to pollute the entire region by spreading the idea of extremism. At the domestic level, the project of transferring TTP people to northern Afghanistan is also considered. With this, the Taliban want to use these people and groups to curb any resistance in the north and export terrorism to the north of Afghanistan and its borders.
The war against the Taliban should not only be fought with guns and bullets, but also with thought and mental atmosphere. We must create space for this war and prove its legitimacy. Today, we see that a broad front of people has taken a stronghold against the alien and petrified thinking of the Taliban. These facilities should be considered as a booty and it should be used more to realize the great aspirations of the Afghan people to get rid of the grip of ethnic and regional terrorism. For this we need a few elements:
FIRST - Internal cohesion to strengthen the axes of resistance, which requires teamwork and joint work and provides countless opportunities for success and effectiveness;
SECOND - Creating space to establish the validity of the claim of resistance, which is a saving version for our people. This creation of space will be done by the writers and enlightened thinkers;
THIRD - commitment and loyalty to the principles of struggle, which requires patience, exhausting work and interest in doing it;
FOURTH - Continuity to pursue the struggle with the meaning that becomes the basis for success in the battlefield and politics.
What is our weapon in this process of resistance?
FIRST, the internal divisions of the Taliban, which include factional divisions, tribal divisions, ideological divisions, and structural disintegration;
SECOND- the predominance of the thinking of struggle and resistance and the culture of saying no against the culture and thinking of the Taliban on the part of the general public;
Third- the unstoppable conflict between the Taliban over the sources of power and wealth, which will be the basis for the success of the resistance fronts;
FOURTH - language as speeches act that can transform the issue of resistance from a general issue to a specific security issue.
Conclusion
Any attempt to downplay the resistance is ineffective. Because people have come to understand the fact that Taliban is not a desirable element for the future of the geography of Afghanistan. The internal cohesion of the resistance field will be the basic need for this decisive battle. Continuity in intellectual and political work, continuing to try to master mentalities, creating coordination and sharing more efforts, trying to show the positive image of resistance and standing against the Taliban is our basic work. We should not ignore the intellectual battle. The enemy will try until the end to show the determination of a nation as insignificant and lacking in credibility. We should not allow the enemy to succeed in such a task. We must stand up against a wave of biased efforts from around the world and show that the only way to be proud and return our credit and honor is this resistance.
