Any delay and neglect by the international community, especially the United Nations, could lead to a cancerous rise in terrorism throughout the region and the world.
Author: Ahmad Saidi, an analyst on Afghanistan and regional issues (Germany), especially for Sangar
How things currently stand in Afghanistan, its problems and solutions:
1 - Crisis of national and international legitimacy;
2 - Continuation of the crisis of political, social, and cultural instability;
3 - Continuation of foreign intervention;
4 - A crisis of unprecedented violence and hostility against women, that is, half of the population of Afghanistan, including a ban on education and vocational training, a ban on travel without a Sharia mahram, a ban on work, forced marriage of underage girls, imprisonment, mental and physical torture of women up to sexual violence - one of the dimensions of the organic crisis of society.
5 - Economic crisis due to unemployment and widespread poverty of eighty percent of the Afghan population suffering from constant hunger, with international aid dwindling, the risk of death of thousands of people, especially children, is very serious.
6 - The brain drain crisis means Afghanistan's intellectual and technical strength, the mass migration of tens of thousands of primarily literate and urban Afghan families, which has virtually paralyzed the social and economic system.
6 - Suspicious and chain murders of thousands of former soldiers, the existence of more than 15 thousand prisoners without trial, or at least without a fair trial.
7 - The flight of national capital and capitalists, made a poor country even poorer.
8 - The ongoing crisis of drug production and trafficking, while drugs as a weapon of terrorism has always been the opposite of political and economic stability, especially in Afghanistan.
Suggestions and solutions:
1 - Placing the tragedy of Afghanistan at the top of the United Nations' priorities as the most serious human rights crisis, political instability, and security threat to the region and the world, requiring urgent international attention;
2 - Urgently holding a high-level international conference chaired by the UN to find a suitable solution to the problem of Afghanistan;
3 - Significant support from the UN and especially the UN Security Council for the early start of intra-Afghan negotiations, forcing the Taliban to participate in these negotiations and forcing the Taliban to recognize the right to determine the fate of the Afghan people and transfer the power to an interim or transitional government based on the collective will of the Afghan people.
4 - Adoption of urgent measures by the Security Council in order to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a hotbed of international terrorism, where more than 28 transnational terrorist groups are present and operating on its territory. Dozens of terrorist groups operating under different names and brands could set South and Central Asia on fire in the next few years.
Conclusion:
Any delay and neglect by the international community, especially the United Nations, could lead to a cancerous rise in terrorism throughout the region and the world.
It is necessary that the United Nations take the initiative to hold an intra-Afghan conference in one of the countries in the region or the world, inviting all parties, including the Taliban, to agree on the rules of a political solution to save the people of Afghanistan on a broad basis with the participation of Afghan forces, institutions, and figures.
The formation of a government with broad rules, led by honest and reputable national figures who played no role in past problems.
