Karzai Government: Pro or Anti

When for the first time Afghanistan was ruled over by foreigners, who later were declared as Talibans, there was no idea what it would be like if these foreigners ever turned into the locals and intermingled with them freely. This happened over a span of ten years. Now, that the government claims to be free of the foreign fighters, they themselves are been able to put up this question to their locals, what they feel about their government, is it pro-Taliban or anti-Taliban?

Unfortunately, this question cannot be put in the manner it is supposed to have been for two core reasons, both interlinked. First, despite having indulged into warfare for three continuous decades, democracy has remained as foreign to Afghanis as foreign the concept of secularism is in Pakistani middle class. This alienated democratic freedom does not let us to put this question before any Afghani due to the fact that all have been indoctrinated well and the generations prepared all those years for war are now well matured to get into the minds of the younger Afghan generation, so an average Afghani is more towards extremism than following Afghan culture and law that under no circumstances one can claim has remained able to balance those mood swings that Afghanis have gone through the past three decades.

Picture retrieved from counterterrorismblog.org

Another reason for not voicing over this concern rests with the grotesque fact that contemporary government has remained confused altogether with the local Talibans, to whom Karzai declares as ‘brothers’ to sketch, even the vaguest boundaries that any vulnerable government on earth could freely sketch upon. Women has remained abstain to their natural birth rights, they are forced to marry without been asking their consent, let alone choosing the partner as their wish. More than 80 percent are forced to marry at a younger age of 16, even then no freedom is been granted to them to seek any foreign shelter, funded by the non governmental organization on behalf of United Nations.

Being the victim of misogynic corruption, evident in widespread rapes, punishments, and domestic violence, women are the ones who are not treated more than goats and sheeps. Those women who dare to flee abuse and domestic violence through seeking shelter in women running NGOs, once given protection are being threatened by the family members of the women in an attempt to push them back to their homes.

How could anyone question the long gone Taliban regime, the contemporary government about what measures it has taken to grant Afghani women the rights of a human being? How could we put up the concern over to the Karzai government as to how and in what ways would the government distinguishes itself from the Taliban regime?