Abdul Hamid Bayati: The Taliban’s move on Wednesday to nominate Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh as the new head of the Afghan government largely determined the status of the country’s next government.
The Taliban announced on Wednesday that consultations for the new government were almost complete and that the necessary cabinet talks had been held. The Islamic State that we will announce soon will be an example for the nation.
Meanwhile, Abbas Stanekzai, a senior member of the Taliban delegation in Qatar, had previously told the BBC that the new Afghan government would be announced in the next two days.
He added: “This government will be inclusive and women will play a role in it, but not at the ministerial level, while their non-cooperation with the US-backed government is also a condition.”
“We are consulting to form a comprehensive government,” Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban leader, told Al Jazeera.
The formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan is the main demand of the various groups in the country, and if it is realized, we can hope for the future of this country. But despite this hope, there are still many questions, each of which depicts dark corners of the situation in Afghanistan and its future.
In order to answer some of these questions, we spoke with Sayed Issa Hosseini Mazari, director of the Afghan Voice Agency and editor-in-chief of the Insaf newspaper. The text of this conversation is as follows:
Why did the Taliban easily seize many provinces without any special resistance (government and people)?
Lack of resistance against the Taliban can have several causes:
1- The first reason was the government’s intention to withdraw and hand over Afghanistan to the Taliban, and this move of Ashraf Ghani was in coordination with the Americans, and this process certainly seems to be a continuation of the Doha agreement between the Taliban and the United States. Most political circles also agree with this theory.
2. Widespread corruption at the level of Ashraf Ghani’s government had weakened and shaken all its infrastructure; Hence, in the face of a motivated and cohesive Taliban, there was no incentive for the government.
3- The question was raised in the Afghan Defense Forces who to defend and for what !? The military and security forces saw that from the top to the bottom of the government, it was immersed in corruption in various fields and it was not worth sacrificing for a soldier to risk his sweet life to defend such a structure, so there was no incentive for the defense forces. They easily dodged against the Taliban.
4- Another reason was the excessive tiredness of the people from the so-called fake republic. Over the course of 20 years, the US puppet government has dealt a fatal blow to the people, both militarily and in security, economically and socially, and culturally and media-wise, and not only has there been no growth in these areas, but also in the people. Irreparable losses were inflicted on the people.
