By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

“Alarming” is the appropriate word to describe the situation in Afghanistan, which seems to be passing from one occupation to another, and, of course, with the connivance of the US, which has apparently struck a deal with the Taliban militants during the several round of suspicious talks in Doha, the capital of Qatar, over the past couple of years.
The Americans lied to the government in Kabul (their civilian protégé as well) and to the world at large when they said the Taliban had agreed to sit together with President Ashraf Ghani and other parties to work out a peaceful solution to decades of crisis plaguing Afghanistan.
It is now obvious that the talks led by the notorious Pakhtoun turncoat, Zalmay Khalilzadeh, were actually a sellout of Afghanistan and betrayal of the elected officials who all these years had mistakenly thought the US was their protector.
The events of the past weeks are firm indications in this regard. If the Taliban had had any peaceful intentions the militia would never have launched armed attacks on peaceful cities to occupy them through killing of fellow citizens and their mass displacement.
The Taliban’s capture of nine provincial capitals in a few days, including the cities of Sar-e-Pol, Sheberghan, Aybak, Qunduz, Taluqan, Pul-e-Khumri, Farah, Zaranj and Faizabad, means they are not after talks or a peaceful solution to the crisis in Afghanistan.
If the Taliban had changed their behaviour, as claimed, or if they were a peace-loving group, they would have been enthusiastically welcomed by the people in the places they have seized, without the least resistance.
The fact that they are using brute force to storm the towns and cities, means they have got the mandate from the Americans to try to occupy the whole country even if it means plunging Afghanistan into more bloodshed and destruction.
There is fierce resistance to Taliban occupation by the Afghan people, even in the towns and cities the militants have seized and are trying to crush the populace with naked force.
If only the government in Kabul had listened to the friendly and fraternal advice of the Islamic Republic of Iran to mobilize the people of every town and city into paramilitary units to defend themselves from terrorists, especially the macabrely murderous Daesh takfiri, the country would have been spared of the current chaos!
Popular mobilization units on the pattern of the Hashd ash-Sha’bi of Iraq or the Shabiha of Syria, as well as the Ansarallah of Yemen, are more than a match for any militant or terrorist outfit.
As a matter of fact, such forces are capable of protecting the homes and hearths of the citizens, and the only solution for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan.
Hopefully, before the matter gets out of control and the country ends up under another brutal occupation, the concerned authorities in Afghanistan would wake up, unite, and mold the people into rapid mobilization units to defeat the latest American plot.