Kabul: There has been a complete withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan. After this, the Taliban has also started work on the formation of the government. Talks are going on between the Taliban leadership and the Haqqani network regarding the formation of the government. Meanwhile, according to media reports, there is a tussle (Yaqoob and Haqqani facts fight) going on between the Haqqani network and the faction of Mulla Yakub controlling Kandahar over a possible government. The Taliban are worried that a pro-Afghan group of Kandaharis and a pro-Pakistan group of Haqqanis could face off. In such a situation, the big question is what will the Taliban do next?
According to the Hindustan Times report, the supreme leader of the Sunni Pashtun organization Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada may reach Kabul to discuss the formation of the government. The Taliban could announce the ruling cabinet by Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.
Even though the Taliban leadership is presenting a united front to the world, internal strife has intensified. Several factions have formed within the UN-designated terrorist group. Mullah Yakub, son of Amir-ul-Momin Mullah Omar, wants to bring military elements into the cabinet instead of political elements. Mullah Baradar, the co-founder of the Sunni Islamist group, is against it.
Reports from Kabul indicate that Mullah Yakub (who is also the head and deputy leader of the military commission) has openly stated that people living in the luxury of Doha cannot set jihadist terms against US-led forces. Mullah Baradar and Sher Mohammad Stanikzai ran the Taliban’s political office from Doha. Both held talks with officials from Pakistan and Britain along with US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.
Several worrying lines are also emerging, with tensions between Mullah Yakub within the Taliban and the Haqqani militant empire currently controlling Kabul. The struggle for power between the non-Pashtun Taliban and the Kandahar faction continues to escalate, just as the differences between Pashtuns and non-Pashtun tribes are growing.
Everyone in the Afghan government is fighting for their own benefit. Openly exposed differences within the Taliban have raised fears of increased violence among groups as in the Mujahideen days of the 1990s.
Meanwhile, the US has left more than $ 85 billion in weapons in Afghanistan. In such a situation, each faction has enough ammunition to fight each other for at least a decade. With the help of these weapons, the Taliban have killed 14 members of the Hazara community in the Khadir district of Dayakundi province.
One of the biggest concerns within Sunni medieval democracy is the growing conflict between Yakub, the Taliban, and Sirajuddin Haqqani. Yakub and Haqqani may also give rise to Afghanistan and pro-Pakistan factions within the ruling regime. Whereas the Taliban leadership takes its decisions instead of blindly trusting the pro-Pakistan faction. The Haqqani Network, on the other hand, is a family-run terrorist factory, aided by the Pakistani ISI. Haqqani operates through retired military officers with jihadist leanings.
Obviously, for the time to come, Western countries have turned their backs on Afghanistan. Russia and China are only supporting the Taliban’s decision to make Afghanistan an Islamic emirate. In such a situation, it is clear that the only loss in this fight for power in Kabul, which will be shrouded in darkness for many years to come.
