Terrorism is a hazard for mankind. Afghanistan faces the problems of poverty, population, hunger and illiteracy. But spread of terrorism has been the most frightening of all. Terrorism is the cruelest of crimes which kills less criminals but more innocent citizens.
At present the one gravest problem the world is facing is terrorism. It has become a headache for federation and a nightmare for public. Though, it is a global issue but Afghanistan has to bear the brunt of it. Afghanistan and international communities’ war waged against insurgents sparked the fire of terrorism. We are facing war like situation against the terrorists. This daunting situation is caused due to several factors.
These factors include social injustice, economic disparity, political instability, religious intolerance and also external hands or international conspiracies. A handful of people who have their vicious interests to fulfill have not only taken countless innocent lives but also distorted the real image of Islam before the world through their heinous acts.
Terrorist acts like suicide bombings have become a norm of the day. On account of these attacks Afghanistan is suffering from ineffaceable loss ranging from civilian to economic. People have become numerical figures, blown up in numbers every now and then. Terrorists have not spared any place. Bazaars, mosques, educational institutes, offices, hotels, roadside no place are safe anymore.
Terrorism is a problem which the country has been continuously facing for more than two-three decades but now has emerged as a global problem against which an internationally united battle has to be fought incessantly. Terrorism is illegal and unlawful in nature and has a purpose of creating fear and panic in the minds and psyche of people at large, to make the masses feel impotent and helpless, to discourage rational thinking and to lead to a reactionary tendency in the people.
It is an organized and systematic use of violence to achieve an end. Terrorists resort to various ways to accomplish these goals like planting crude home-made bombs, hand-grenades or other explosives in a shopping centre or a crowded place like a bus stand or even a bus, train or airplane, or even use tactics like kidnapping, assassination or hijacking. Different terrorist activities all over the world may have different aims, but a few goals common to all may be underlined. It may be because they want a regime to react or they intend to mobilize a mass support through fear, to eliminate opponents or enemies or to magnify their cause.
World leaders and Afghanistan elders should believe that global fairness, peace and human dignity is in the best interest of the global community and terrorism is the greatest menace to human race, thus must be curbed with an iron hand.