The Herat Security Dialogue; a meeting that has been held for years, where a number of notorious figures from Afghanistan gather each time, believing they are discussing the security and political issues of Afghanistan, the region, and the world.
Regarding the background of this meeting, it should be noted that it was first held from October 19-21, 2012, at the Ikhtiyaruddin Qala in Herat. Subsequently, the second round was held from October 4-6, 2013, the third round from September 27-28, 2014, the fourth round from October 2-3, 2015, the fifth round from October 14-15, 2016, the sixth round from October 13-14, 2017, the seventh round from October 26-27, 2018, and the eighth round from October 18-19, 2019.
However, the ninth round of these futile meetings was held differently due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and took place at three levels: provincial, virtual, and in-person. The tenth round of these meetings was held after the fall of the Republic system on November 29-30, 2022, and the eleventh round on November 27-28, 2023, in the city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
This conference, organized by the Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), recently held its twelfth session in Madrid, Spain, for two days.
It should be noted that these notorious politicians of the Republic, after the fall of the puppet regime in Kabul, moved the venue of these meetings to Tajikistan. However, following reports of improving relations between the caretaker government and Tajikistan, it seems that these exiled figures from Tajikistan have also been rejected, and now they are holding their showy meeting in Madrid, Spain.
On the first day of this conference, which began with music, song, and dance by unveiled women, individuals such as Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghanistan’s National Security, Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur, and some other familiar faces spoke to their like-minded peers.
Nabil, in a part of his scattered remarks, warned the world about the danger of ISIS Khorasan while campaigning for ISIS, and added that the international community ignored ISIS in Syria and Iraq, allowing the group to become a global threat, and now they are repeating the same mistake in Afghanistan.
Nabil compares ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan to ISIS in Iraq and Syria during its peak years, despite the fact that there is no similarity between the two; because ISIS controlled about 40% of Iraqi territory by mid-2014 and about 50% of Syrian territory by late May 2015, whereas the followers of this notorious group do not control even an inch of Afghan territory.
Subsequently, Richard Bennett welcomed the request for an arrest warrant for the Taliban leader and the chief justice of the caretaker government, stating that the world as a whole is facing a kind of regression in the status of women, but the deterioration of the situation for Afghan women is incomparable to any other country!
Bennett makes these nonsensical statements while, in just 15 months of the Zionist regime’s brutal attacks on Gaza, more than 20,000 Muslim women have been martyred; yet individuals like Bennett, since their true mission is not to support women’s rights as they claim, have turned a blind eye to these atrocities.
Regarding the outcome of this meeting, it can be said that the history of this conference shows that this gathering of fugitives, like their other futile meetings, such as the Vienna meeting held a few days ago, will have no impact on Afghanistan’s internal or external situation.
Indeed, if the Herat Security Dialogue could achieve even a little, in the nine sessions held in Herat during the rule of these same figures in Afghanistan, it would at least alleviate some of the people’s suffering and reduce the graph of insecurity, not across all of Afghanistan, but at least in Herat itself; an expectation that was nothing more than a dream from the founders of corruption and the real disruptors of Afghanistan’s security.
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