The recent series of incidents have spread serious fear of return of the radical Taliban. Afghan youth has been struggling to ease the situation and adapt to the current fearful environment. The fear of return of chaos to the country broadened when a deadline was set for withdrawal of the international forces from Afghanistan, leaving a weak, unorganized and unequipped Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) behind.

In addition to that, the continued interference by certain neighboring countries promoted the fear of a longer conflict in Afghanistan and the increasing instability in absence of the international forces.

Some recent studies suggest that, over the recent years, Afghanistan has lost and is losing a large number of young educated Afghans who are running after safety abroad before the alarming 2014 arrives. Afghan women are specifically afraid of possible unwanted costs they may have to pay once international forces will have abandoned the Taliban-growing country.

Studies say that a brain drain of bright young women is already taking place in Afghanistan before the 2014 handover that many fear will mean a reversal of advances in women's rights. In addition to that, Afghan government acknowledges that a rising number of women and girls are leaving education and the workforce and staying indoors because of the worsening security situation and the disproportionate threats facing women.

Afghan civil society organizations have frequently warned of a further isolating situation for Afghan women and girls if President Karzai's administration continues offering advantages to the Taliban, Haqqani and Hizb-e-Islami groups and provides increasing space for their maneuver.

Besides that, certain extremist groups have grabbed the opportunity to promote anti-human rights practices across the country. This has directly affected Afghan women and girls who hold an appalling experience of the Taliban period when women were denied their basic human rights.

Some Afghan and international women activists and human rights organizations have warned against a deal over women's rights to appease Taliban and their allied extremist groups. They say the lack of commitment by the Afghan government to equality and to tackling the high rates of ill-treatment of women in the home and in the workplace is raising real fears they will be at the bottom of the political agenda in the push for power after NATO forces leave the country.

To address the people's concern on this, the government shall make more transparent moves while dealing with the Islamist groups. Notwithstanding, the international community needs to keep monitoring the processes related to human rights and women's status in Afghanistan.