Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

Millions of Construction Funds Reported to Face Uncertainty

According to disclosed reports published on Washington Post from US government, "There are many projects that will not be completed by the end of 2014." It is really sad to report that after a decade of spending billions of international aids for reconstruction of a war torn country; there are still projects that will remain incomplete after the international forces withdrawal from the region.

"A U.S. initiative to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on construction projects in Afghanistan, originally pitched as a vital tool in the military campaign against the Taliban, is running so far behind schedule that it will not yield benefits until most U.S. combat forces have departed the country," according to a government inspection released on Monday, July 30, 2012. "Afghan government will not have the required skill and enough money to maintain the progress on rational achievement during the last decade," concluded in the report by the special inspector for Afghanistan reconstruction.

The U.S counterinsurgency mission will face a dark end, if both Afghan and US governments fail to put a successful end to a decade of war against terrorist. The chances of losing the public favor and support by the end of 2014 is possible if the government of Afghanistan fails to sustain the rational achievement of the last decade.

After the ground fall of Taliban regime since 2001, America has been one of the main supporting countries for Afghan government and international community has pumped around $60 billion for reconstruction and peace stabilization in the region. Now after a decade of spending billions of funds, it is really surprising to hear that many ongoing projects are long behind the schedule as the international troops are supposed to withdraw the region by the end of 2014.

There are mainly two reasons mentioned in the report behind the failure of implementing the projects accordingly: (1)the policy makers and strategy initiators could not manage the fundsaccordingly and most of the funds are fueled to corruption, (2)because of the high level of insecurity in some parts of the country, government and international organizations have not been able to implement and bill the funds accordingly. As a result, most of the funds are billed for security stabilizations instead of investing on reconstruction projects.

In order to win the game in Iraq and Afghanistan, the top U.S. officials, military commanders and diplomats have long believed in large infrastructure projections. They have been able to grab the favor of the public by pumping millions of dollars. But their strategy of growing up thenation depending on international aids seems to put question marks on their decade of war for peace stabilization. Because despite millions of dollars spent in the region, the nation is still struggling within misfortunes.