Amidst manifold troubles, deteriorating state of security stands to be the prior most predicaments; Afghanistan intervenes at the present. Seemingly, the militants and none-state actors have grown to an extent that easily evades the loosely held net of law and order and turn triumphant by making brazen attacks.
Every alternate day innocent civilians, army and police personnel render prey of endless bloodletting executed by insurgents. Subsequent to every triumphant attack the incumbent government needlessly sticks, finding traces of involvement of foreign elements without putting the concerned department into query that had to own a tougher stance crushing terrorists and extremists. The chief executive of the country turns apologists and is found justifying the blood shedding of insurgents whilst pleading them negotiation.
The blood stain of former attack on the office of independent election commission (IEC) did not dehydrate, that the insurgent ventured yet another attack on the same office, the previous day. A group of four militants stormed the Independent Election Commission (IEC) headquarters in Kabul, exchanging heavy gunfire with security forces. Earlier eight ill-fated afghan civilians were killed and five others seriously injured in separate blast in southern Afghanistan, the media reports unearthed.
The rising unrestrained attack depicts we inhabit in state of statelessness. With every advancing day, the insecurity escalates and the uncertainty heightens, making one believe, the states security apparatus either incapable to restrain the perpetrators at bay or demonstrate complicity. The state of insecurity has reached to a point letting every dawn begin with terrorists attack and dust ends with suicide explosions, leaving numerous fatless citizens render prey. Violence has been a dominant phenomenon browbeat every fabric of afghan society.
The failure of government keeping insurgents away from civilian enclave manipulates the state of affairs in the favor of insurgents and tries to impart great degree of influence on electoral process. In the pursuit of their malicious design, insurgents tend to intimidate civilians from polling process by warning of ill-consequences. The government must work out a coordinated security plan to keep the insurgents away from residential enclaves and polling stations. The insurgents might use variant alternatives to give a blow to electoral process bringing the system at standstill. To nullify all these concerns, the coordinated actions must be put to exercise to do away all the apprehensions.
Undoubtedly insurgents are using violence to further their agendas that are thought to be consoled subsequent to negotiations. It is high time Mr. President revise his decisions and give up his fallacious believes; government may not subsist without drawing political support from insurgents. It should be imbibed that Taliban is now history and will never assume power provided they are not supported by any faction in Afghanistan. It is better the government divert its attention on other aspects of governance than sticking to futile exercise of peace talks. The trust of Mr. President is exploited by earning monetary and human resource.
Converse to all aforementioned facts or propagandas, the deteriorating state of security emerges to be prior most concern on the way to transparent election and peaceful transition. Reportedly the international election observers are preparing to leave Kabul following a string of deadly Taliban attacks in the heart of the central capital. Blatant assaults on Serena Hotel, stationed by foreigners, and the Independent Election Commission headquarters have prompted international monitors to pull out of Kabul seem not a good omen. Previously two major international election observation missions left Afghanistan in the wake of the March 20 attack on the luxury Hotel. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) withdrew staff, leaving the European Union's international monitoring mission the only major one to remain.
In the absence of international observers the credibility of election if questioned might not lead to consensual and agreed solution which seems to happen. The incumbent government must exercise high degree of impartiality, valuing conduction of transparent election their supreme most prior responsibility in order to evade any inconsequential outcomes.
It is to be believed that a credible and universally agreeable election if the government succeeds to conduct will strengthen democracy, stability and security in Afghanistan otherwise it emboldens the antagonistic forces to derail the system. Any suspicion of ill-deed not only erodes the credibility of election, but also harms legality of the elections -consequently putting Afghanistan on avenues of crisis engulfing the entire system. A smooth transfer of power through free, fair and transparent elections must be ensured to avoid any crisis in post 2014 poll.
With inclusion to worsening security concerns, Afghanistan’s battered foreign relation equally dampens its insecurity. The international financial investments halted, military aid is on the verge of suspension, financial aids linked to betterment of human rights condition and pro-women legislations which seem not feasible imminently. The maintenance of large afghan army needs handsome monetary resources for equipments and training purposes.
The indefinite pending of BSA with US is another vibrant factor complicating the security situation of the country. One of the prime reasons pushing signature of BSA into indefinite delay is the unconditional demand of peace talks with Taliban expected to be channelized by US. Despite owing soft disposition, the government couldn’t earn insurgents favor halting terror attacks instead anticipate international community stage talks. The gentle gesture earned not, good-fate for the war rotten country as insurgents instead of halting, multiplied their attacks on armed forces and unarmed civilians alike.
Keeping his words Karzai may bring irreversible troubles for Afghanistan as security vacuum will be created that is likely to be filled by insurgents leading civil war. This scenario can be compared to Washington's loss of focus after helping rebels oust Soviet occupiers in the 1980s, leaving a power vacuum exploited by the Taliban, which eventually harbored Al-Qaeda hatching the plan of September 11 attacks in 2001.
The goings of governance suffers acute degeneration given favoritism, misappropriation and financial discrepancy aided by government’s negligence is dominant factor aiding the insecurity. None of the public institutions seems well established while morally corrupt too. The billion dollar military aid couldn’t well equip and train afghan national army (ANA), still large number happens to be illiterate. Despite sufficient financial and technical support from international community the government couldn’t reverse the notoriety in the state of security; absence worsens the state of affairs.