As the deadline for US draw down approaches, the magnitude of violence practically rises. The consecutive attacks on foreign diplomats and public installation depict either state’s unwillingness to restrict the insurgent away from commercial and residential areas or it has surrendered to militants operating at will. Every time a tragic incident occurs the fateless Afghan has to pay the price by serving to be a sacrificial cow.
The former day, Taliban militants launched attack on the Afghan intelligence service office in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least three people in a bomb and gun assault. According to public officials, Nangarhar NDS (National Directorate of Security), the militants and NDS employees exchanged fire early Saturday. After a few moments, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack in an email statement to the media, claiming several NDS agents were killed in the attack. This is not the first time intelligence service is targeted. The intelligence service has regularly been targeted by the militants.
On the other hand an awful incident took place in the Pusht-i-Koh district of western Farah province where unknown assailants shot dead 10 laborers and injured five others, according to media reports. The workers were on their way to Sheikh Abu Naser Farahi port near the border with Iran, where daily wagers gather every morning looking for clients to hire their services. Doubtlessly, the insurgents are behinds such attacks, finding the deteriorating condition of worsening political crisis, they launch consecutive strikes.
Owing a weak and influentially plagued net of jurisprudence, the militants and insurgents are developing a new reputation: not just as agents of terrorism but as drug lords and agents of criminal activities including kidnapping, people trafficking and smuggling.
It is evident that the insurgents further their evil agendas by exploiting the sacred name of Islam, seems to be wholly responsible for earning extremists fame for the adherents of this religion. The aforementioned narrative is a true manifestation of the religion of peace and audacious step forward to undermine the extreme cause the insurgents are striving for.
The law must be implemented indiscriminately to ensure order in a state. There is a documented existence of law and with negligible application or it finds prejudicial application. Seeing the worsened state of affairs, sometimes one reaches to conclusion that “might is right and haplessness is curse”. In our beloved country, seemingly, the militants and anti-state elements have grown to an extent that easily evades the loosely held net of law and order and turn triumphant. Afghanistan cannot develop without law and order.
The failure to exclude the leaders of armed militias, many of whom have known records of gross human rights abuses, from government structures and the failure to ensure a comprehensive disarmament process have further weakened good governance and the rule of law.