Karim Khalili's warning to the Taliban is important and now is the time to rise against the Taliban.
Author: Mohammad Usman Najib, retired Afghan Army General, especially for Sangar
The situation in Central Asia raises concerns about possible decisions by Putin and Russia to officially recognize the Taliban and remove it from the list of terrorist organizations. We expressed these concerns many years ago. We see that, except for Tajikistan, all Central Asian countries are following the wrong path of Russia, China, and Iran.
The Taliban terrorists will be no one's friend and find it difficult to give up fighting as a proxy force for the US, even as they now add several years to their reign in a double game with the West and the East.
Political and geopolitical experts in the region and Central Asia recognize these concerns. One of them, Mr. Ergashev, recently spoke out against the Taliban and considers them incorrigible, and considers the decisions of countries close to the Taliban a serious strategic mistake.
Bakhtiyor Irgashev, director of the Mano Research Center in Uzbekistan, said he does not believe the Taliban's assurances about the fight against ISIS. Mr. Irgashev said, “The Taliban like to report that they are successfully fighting ISIS in Khorasan, but I don’t believe that.”
In an interview with the Red Spring agency published on Wednesday, April 3, he said: “Information from Afghanistan and other reliable sources indicates that ISIS is expanding.”
The director of the Mano Research Center in Uzbekistan explained: “Personally, I do not expect much success from the Taliban in the fight against ISIS-Khorasan and other terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and the Uyghur Islamic Movement of East Turkestan."
Bakhtiyor Ergashev says some former Soviet countries [mistakenly] think they can cooperate with the Taliban and that the group should be given privileges, such as being removed from the list of terrorist organizations.
He explained: "This is the line of certain political forces who are convinced that it is possible and necessary to work with the Taliban movement. These forces believe that the Taliban will someday become good, peaceful, civilized people and will not offend women, and girls and will allow them to study, and someday they will adopt a normal constitution. These people are convinced that railways can be built with the Taliban. It is these groups that are convinced that it is possible to work with the Taliban. I think this is a mistake."
This Uzbek expert added: “It is difficult to assess how the removal of the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations will affect the situation in Central Asian countries.”
However, he emphasized that with the exclusion from the list of terrorist organizations, “the Taliban will receive more tools and opportunities to work in other countries and promote their ideology in the same countries of Central Asia.”
Speaking about the Taliban's policy of creating a Sharia government, abandoning secular government, and keeping girls at home, the director of the Mano Research Center in Uzbekistan added: “There are certain groups in any country in Central Asia that consider a version of the government structure that the Taliban are now forming in Afghanistan, is almost an ideal and are ready to begin the fight against secular regimes in the countries of Central Asia even tomorrow.”
Mr. Ergashev warned: “All these sleeper cells still exist; the intelligence services and law enforcement agencies of the countries of Central Asia are fighting them with varying degrees of success. But I would not say that this work reduces the threat of terrorist attacks from these sleeper cells.”
On the other hand, the list of Taliban crimes inside our country is lengthening every day, and they are torturing and robbing most of the residents of the North, Kabul, Greater Shimali, and the entire country, regardless of their ethnicity. For some, it’s enough to tell them that someone is from resistance and that’s it. It doesn’t matter whether he is a Pashtun, a Tajik, a Hazara, an Uzbek, or a representative of another nationality in the country. They arrest and kill everyone, just as they shot the young man from Panjshir yesterday.
We can say that the Taliban have turned Afghanistan into a terrorist base. According to witnesses, the terrorist Taliban hosts and supports more than 21 terrorist groups. Now every minister, deputy, commander, and governor prepare false documents of a Taliban member for their relatives. According to unconfirmed news, there are currently a total of 800 thousand Taliban, while before the fall of the republic, there were from 20 to 80 thousand.
The information received suggests that over a certain period, 4 thousand people received fake Taliban IDs from Wardak province and 6 thousand from Ghazni province.
The question is how is the total number of 150 thousand certificates made and issued in Wardaka alone? Are there so many people in Wardak or do they come there from other provinces to get a certificate?
On the other hand, the series of thousand and one nights of darkness of the Taliban in Kabul has no end: the Taliban rob people's houses at night. Over the past 24 hours, at least three houses in the Khairkhana quarter have been broken into under the pretext of a search. They stole gold, money, and even televisions. Another report states that the Taliban entered the home of a famous Afghan doctor, who served the people without pay for 40 years, at night and took all his property.
The point is that the people must rise, as Khalili warned in his statement today, for the Taliban to stop oppressing the Hazaras, otherwise, there will be an armed uprising against them. The best time to rebel is now.
