Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Thursday, April 25th, 2024

Extremism Penetration Trouble

Amidst the hard talks on peace negotiations with Taliban, the country is undergoing a hardly-tolerable suffering. Major parts of the country are still threatened by Taliban extremists and the government remains weaker than it makes bluffs. Indications suggest that to change the situation, the government needs major reforms. On the other side, the external resources for extremism and terrorism in Afghan should be uprooted.

Or else, the success will remain far from achieved. in the last decade, the international community involved in the process of fight against terrorism, regional countries and the government and people of Afghanistan have paid huge costs to hamper growth of extremism and keep security and peace in the region and across the world.

But how could that work if the roots of extremism are still active and terror production networks are freely operating along the borders? The high-level insurgency and deterioration of security situation in Afghanistan has caused enormous fear among the stakeholders.

There is a burning question need to be answered by afghan and the international forces on what mechanism are set to prevent militants' penetration to the afghan side of the common border. Military operations, particularly in Afghanistan, clearly show that extremists can easily alter their route of militancy and shift to the neighbouring regions if put an impasse by air strikes or ground attacks.

The floating terrorism is not hazardous only to the area of its operation but to all the neighbouring regions and hence for the whole world. The militants who have fled from the tribal areas have surely inhabited in other parts of the tribal belt or may have entered Afghanistan.

The latter case is more likely when Afghanistan is not sufficiently prepared to prevent them from coming inside. Former operations in Afghanistan and beyond the border in Pakistan also suggest that usually not enough coordination exists among Afghan, international and Pakistani forces while implementing such big plans.

How can an offensive succeed ideally if no more than one stakeholder is taking care of the possible risks and assumptions? The experts say that it is high time the government of Afghanistan and the international community, in partnership with Pakistan, delineate efficient and specific mechanisms to put barrier against insurgents trying to enter the country to change the destiny of war.