Taliban leaders have launched a campaign to turn themselves into heroes.
Author: Ahmad Saidi, a political analyst
These days, media criticism and divisions among Taliban leaders are heating up. It is like the claims of an infant against its mother or the discontent of a slave with his master. Undoubtedly, discords in political discussions are natural, but if we study the past of the Taliban leaders, we find that these leaders, namely Mr. Haqqani, Stanikzai, Hanafi, and Yaqub... all of them have played a prominent role in the events of the last 25 years. These leaders have had a hand in the killing and suffering of the Afghan people, and it is these leaders who have caused the destruction of constructive plans over the past twenty years, the flight of millions of Afghan citizens, and the killing of thousands of people. These leaders know very well that they are still considered by the people of Afghanistan and the world as assassins and mafia leaders, and these leaders also know that the Taliban leaders have no place in the minds and hearts of our people.
Based on this, the Taliban deliberately decided to criticize each other in order to restore their position among the people and make themselves heroes.
In my opinion, the Taliban leaders, including even the ghostly Haibatullah, do not have the authority to make independent and large-scale decisions, because whoever gives the bread gives the orders. I feel that those who helped the Taliban with $2 billion last year have the most power. I feel that those who have harbored the Taliban leaders and their families for the past twenty years are more competent than the Taliban. I feel that the first word belongs to those who gave the Taliban political office in Qatar and the opportunity to travel the world. I feel that those who provided the intelligence and military equipment of the Taliban's 20-year war can decide everything, not the Taliban.
Anyway, as a university professor and an Afghan citizen, I have witnessed the burning of schools, kindergartens, universities, and maternity hospitals by the Taliban over the past twenty years. Surely my eyes, or rather, what I saw with my own eyes, will tell that the Taliban are against education, training, and against life.
I well remember that the Haqqani network carried out thousands of suicide attacks in Kabul and other cities. So today, when Mr. Sirajuddin Haqqani talks about the monopoly on power and opening the doors of schools and universities, it is completely out of line with his present and past thoughts, but Mr. Haqqani is on a foggy blacklist as a great assassin and he, first, must pay off his past account.
Finally, I believe that there are no serious and significant differences in the Taliban leadership, because, firstly, they are not independent, and the decision maker is this or that country. Secondly, the Taliban leaders are among the most hated figures in Afghanistan in the past half-century. For this reason, I am sure that these contradictions have an internal application, and the Taliban group seeks to change the people's opinion about their leaders, and they want to deceive the people.
I really wished that my conclusions were wrong and that the Taliban were involved in internecine strife and that they no longer encroached on the lives and property of the oppressed people of Afghanistan, and that their internal divisions led to their fall.
