The withdrawal process of international troops and ongoing efforts to involve Taliban in negotiation for a political solution to Afghan war have fuelled the concerns of the people of Afghanistan. The gloomy picture of Afghanistan's future has resulted in the disappointment and despair of Afghans. The little development in security, rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, women rights and so on seem to be at great stake. In whatsoever fashion the Taliban becomes a part of Afghan society, people deem it dangerous. Their words may change but their nature, mentality and ideology are to remain the same.

Believing that Afghanistan will turn more insecure after international troops' withdrawal in 2014, the Afghan people have speeded up the pace of escaping their country. According to an Associated Press (AP) report published on 21 January, more Afghans fled the country and sought asylum abroad in 2011 than in any other year since the start of the decade-long war, suggesting that many are looking for their own exit strategy as international troops prepare to withdraw.

From January to November, more than 30,000 Afghans applied for political asylum worldwide, a 25 percent increase over the same period the previous year and more than triple the level of just four years ago, according to UN statistics obtained by The AP ahead of their scheduled publication later this year.

Those figures should be more than enough to clearly signal the level of fear prevailing amongst the people of Afghanistan. The decade long international efforts to establish a strong administration in Kabul have, disappointingly, all gone futile.

Afghanistan faces grave hindrances such entrenched corruption, lack of employment opportunities, lowest level of security, and regular suicide attacks, targeted killings and abductions. With the international community's diminishing role and handing of Afghans to the sick lion (Karzai calls himself a lion) would mean making condition feasible for re-eruption of civil war in Afghanistan. Afghans have no other option except escaping the country at the risk of their lives.