For the past five years, the continuous formation and rapid dissolution of numerous groups, coalitions, and fronts among the current Afghan government’s opponents indicate that these processes lack fundamental objectives. Instead of being formed based on a genuine and organized strategy, many of these groups have emerged in haste within a few days and disappeared within a few hours, lacking sustainability. Such seasonal and imaginary structures clearly indicate the absence of deep political and fundamental goals and demonstrate their inability to serve as an effective and stable political alternative both domestically and internationally.
The entire effort and activity of these groups is limited to propaganda campaigns, media displays, and the virtual world; this is because they have neither a physical and social base within the country nor the will and capability for a serious struggle. Due to this limitation, their recruiters and leaders also understand that their main area of work is propaganda and the manipulation of public opinion. Instead of the practical field, their attempts to fight in the media are the clearest evidence of their emptiness and detachment from reality.
Another major sign of the weakness of opposing fronts is their internal conflicts based on personal interests and selfishness. In these so-called fronts, every day, minor grievances and disputes over power, privilege, or leadership between two individuals lead to the separated person immediately declaring a new group or front for themselves. This shows a complete lack of vision among them, as they do not have a culture of collaboration and tolerance, and due to their focus on personal interests, large online groups are turning into small online fronts.
The most recent and clear examples are the recent separation of some members from the so-called Freedom Front, such as Abdul Sattar Hussaini, Azim Mohseni, and Hikmatullah Barkzai, and the announcement of a new front, as well as another new group that claimed to exist under the name “Arman Front” through social networks in the past few days. The new groups, names, and slogans of these known and some unknown individuals indicate that all these movements are not for a just cause and legitimate purpose, but rather a failed tactic to gain their personal and political advantages. They are not aware of the nation’s pain, but are only in pursuit of their own petty desires, and nothing more!
The activities of the mentioned groups are filled with imaginary slogans, propaganda announcements, and staged videos instead of practical work. They are completely unaware of the pains and realities of the real Afghan society and only work to please those circles that are enemies of Afghanistan’s stability and progress. Dramatic videos, online claims, false slogans, and propaganda statements do not strengthen their position; instead, they further disgrace them in front of the public.