When the Americans invaded Afghanistan, they paid the leaders and commanders of the Northern Alliance, and they participated in the war as the ground troops of the United States; the “Bonn” conference had decided that no military force would enter Kabul; but when the Taliban left Kabul, the Northern Alliance entered, brought their imaginary government back to Kabul from Kolab and Khwaja Bahauddin, and filled all government positions, from leaders to soldiers, solely with their fighters.
According to the decisions made in Bonn, a temporary administration was formed in Afghanistan, nominally led by Hamid Karzai, but the power was effectively in the hands of the Northern Alliance, the Jamiat Party, and the Northern Council. This administration was composed of one to two hundred people, and the right to participate was denied to a population of over thirty million. It was these one to two hundred individuals who became deputies, ministers, advisors, governors, and ambassadors, and despite all the failures, they were repeatedly elected and played with the fate of this nation. They had created an administration that earned the title of the second most corrupt in the world and brought Afghanistan face to face with a historical disgrace.
It is questionable, why some people deliberately introduce themselves as defenders of fundamental rights and human values? They are experienced; during their reign and rise to power, things happened that make people feel shame and disgrace when recalling them. The families of former Mujahideen became millionaires by killing the people, land confiscation reached its peak, the country’s minerals were sold from private addresses, each province had its own emperor, and citizens suffered from insecurity. In such circumstances, Afghanistan needed fundamental transformations. Those who had turned away from peace and reconciliation ruled the country. It was then that a great transformation occurred in the country, the murderers, thieves, and warlords of the people fled the country. After some time, in order to cool their evil abroad, they gathered several times, but did not unite.
The fact that they cannot unite and gather around the same table has many reasons; fundamentally, there is no basic and common point among them that could bring them together. Their internal differences, ethnic, regional, linguistic, and other prejudices, mafia-like mentalities, personal rivalries, attempts to monopolize power, and working for foreign agendas can be mentioned as prominent factors of their division and fragmentation.
These people were sold by various foreign countries during the dark twenty-year period of the Republic, each working for the interests of one or several countries, some working for regional agendas and others those of other countries around the world.
The foreign-based groups formed under the name of armed resistance, which claim to operate based on various ideologies and interests, are themselves a problem. Therefore, they can never solve Afghanistan’s problems. The resolution of Afghanistan’s issues is possible through officials and a government that are clean, legitimate, and rooted in the people’s essence, committed to all the values of Islam and the country, and intend to build Afghanistan alongside establishing a central system. This is not achievable through disruptive, foreign-favoring, and evil-desiring groups that make unsuccessful attempts to solve Afghanistan’s problems from the foreign countries.
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