The international community has done and is still doing much for us. The question is what we have done for ourselves. Have we any achievement in resolving issues that await our own effort. Today, Afghanistan has a weighty support from the international community.
The last decade was the best ever opportunity for this worn-torn country to pave its path and strengthen its foundations for development. With international community's financial and non-financial support, noteworthy improvements are observable in democracy, civil society activities, human rights, media, education and other important sectors.
The cooperation from international community will not remain as is. Sooner or later it is has to diminish. The need of time for Afghanistan is formulation of better national and foreign policies and decision making in the best of interest of Afghans.
In addition, there is a need for an overall institutional reform aimed at improving transparency and accountability. All and all, it is our government that must plan to make use of the opportunities available to it by learning from its past shortcomings and mistakes of the ex-governments of Afghanistan.
It is quite a national tragedy for us and the countries involved in Afghanistan that despite of the efforts of about a decade, terrorism has not been curbed fully. The lives many of the people of Afghanistan are at the mercy of militants.
Insurgents continue their attacks in the forms of suicide/roadside bombings, targeted killings, abductions, direct clashes, etc. To counter the terrorists, there is failure after failure by the security arrangements while Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, U.S and other countries' governments never stop blaming one other.
The blame game really needs to be stopped and some straight forward decisions are required to be made. Putting the security problem aside, there are many other areas as well that need to be addressed appropriately.
If terrorism in Afghanistan is a regional and/or global issue, corruption, social injustice, poppy cultivation, poverty, flawed politics and many other are all our own national issues.
For development in every sector, the government of Afghanistan has received great support from the international community but unfortunately has not been able to perform as much as possible; therefore, there are many problems that still linger in the socio-political scene of Afghanistan. It is not yet very late.
The present administration does possess the capability to change Afghanistan towards better at least in the above mentioned areas.