Our beloved motherland passes through diverse security, political and economic troubles. Every problem has got its own dynamics and demands a variant solution. Putting cognitive abilities into practice the public officials can reduce the size of problems if they can’t eradicate them. The politicians representing their electoral constitution not necessarily should come up to the expectation of their Electoral College but to the voice of faithfulness and sanity.
Determined executive, vigilant legislature, justice serving judiciary and compliant media are organs of central importance to a vibrant state. Having been blessed by a pragmatic leadership both the quantity and size of problems intervening the rate of progress, subsides. It should be learned that quantity of material possession decides not the rate and span of collective triumph but the number of well learned and cognizant men do. Greater the number of eligible citizens, greater will be optimistically contributing individuals to play their part in upbringing of the country out of multifaceted crisis. These only crystallize given the supremacy of rational laws and merits are withheld.
Basically, Afghanistan is an agricultural country–a non-industrial country. The agricultural production can’t fulfill the domestic requirements, hence unable to earn revenues for the country. Mostly it relies on foreign aids. The meager and conditional foreign aid provided by international donors is not enough to backup our endless needs. Consequently, Afghanistan suffers budget deficits.
Afghanistan is in dire need of socio-political assistance and trained official in all fields of human endeavors. Any country extending selfless services must be warmly received. In that pursuit a cordial relationship must not be developed but tried to be maintained. Afghanistan at present pushed to directionless avenues of battered relation with international community serve not the Afghanistan’s interest.
Afghanistan faces multifaceted issues. After a decade long period of rule, the government couldn’t avert the escalating graph of despondency. Neither the rule of law, administrative accountability enforced nor elimination of social ills, terrorism and corruption materialized. However, the politics of allegation and counter allegation was well exercised worth observing. Sometimes foreigners were accused of evil practices sometime international community, the government remained the icon of achievements. High ranked public officials senior politicians involved in bank scandals and corruption, Taliban involved in sever human rights violation, were not brought to book seem not government’s concern or priority.
Despite countless challenges left to the new government to face, financial management will be the biggest problem pleading immediate attention. To provide a sustainable backup to its financial needs, the government relies on loans accompanied with handsome amount of interest. According to finance commission head the total loans amounts 2 billion Afghanis which were received from World Bank (WB) nine times, Asian Development Bank (ADB) 14 times, once from IMF, Islamic Development Bank (IDB) four times and Saudi Arabia Monitory Agency two times. A good amount is earmarked for interest of these loans. The international community lending a helping hand by providing aids to Afghanistan should be relied the most that can be done by establishing better relationships with them.
Given the future of security agreement of the Kabul-Washington remains undecided and the complete drawdown of the NATO coalition approaches, a grand expectation of future funding and financial support to the Kabul government seems scanty. Additionally, there are many other recommendations the international community anticipates of Kabul government to get done earning their confidence for future funding, amongst which maintenance of human rights stand prior.
Earlier, the budget of fiscal year 2013-2014 was put forth to two houses of parliament. The budget draft shows a scanty amount fixed for governance and public welfare whilst a huge amount of 64 percentage, allocated for security. According to reports of Finance Commission chief, the draft budget included 275 billion Afghanis ($4.82 billion) the general budget and at 168 billion Afs the development spending, 23 billion Afs of the development budget was discretionary, funds in hand the government’s kitty, 67 billion afs non-discretionary and 78 billion Afs left over from previous years. The details read, 36 percent of the development funds would be spent on basic infrastructure projects, 13 percent on education, 29 percent on health, 21 percent on agriculture and rural development, with the rest going to other schemes.
The presidential contenders pledging assurances of betterment will work only when tangible measures are taken. Afghanistan cannot develop without a sustainable economical road map drawn and implemented that grants them financial independence. The state of self reliance can only be achieved when heavy investments are made in the field of human resource developmental programs.
Law and order and security concerns remains to be another obstacle on the way to successful Afghanistan. The government must enforce rules that will make it possible for Afghans to live together without conflict. Harmony promoting education and equitable distribution of resources and services narrows down the differences whilst paving the way for peaceful coexistence. There is a documented existence of law and with negligible application or prejudicial application serve none interest. Seeing the worsened state of affairs sometimes one reaches to conclusion that “might is right and haplessness is curse”. In our beloved country, seemingly, the militants and none-state actors have grown to an extent that easily evades the loosely held net of law and order and turn triumphant. Formerly United States pledged to remain committed to Afghanistan on issues related to illicit drugs and rule of law post 2104. The government of Afghanistan instead of relying on international community must work out genuine means tackling maintenance of law and devise legitimate and standard procedure of prosecution. The US official stressed the strategy must address alternative development, eradication, investigation, interdiction, prosecution, incarceration and then the so-called soft-side programs of awareness, treatment and rehabilitation.
The government and public officials must realize, the dream of a vibrant, progressive, developed Afghanistan can only materialize, provided a handsome amount of budget is allocated for education, health, infrastructure and governance. We must learn it that a healthy, literate and well governed Afghanistan is a secure and developed Afghanistan.