Bloodshed Will Not Bring Peace to Afghanistan

Date: 22 January 2019 - 21:11

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By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The latest act of bloodshed in Afghanistan is indeed deplorable, since wanton killing of the mostly innocent people, even if it is meant to hurt the government or the American occupiers, will neither bring peace nor promote goodwill.
What the country needs is solidarity to drive out the US forces, which are definitely pleased with the murder in broad daylight of over 190 Afghan personnel of the training centre of the National Directorate for Security in Maidan Wardak, west of the capital Kabul, on Monday, as claimed by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
It was one of the most deadly attacks in several months as the attackers rammed a captured military Humvee packed with explosives into the building while gunmen followed up, spraying the compound with gunfire.
Who benefits from such senseless killing? Certainly not the ordinary Afghan citizen, who is tired of the misery of the nation which for the past four decades has not seen peace and tranquility. The last 18 years since the American troops formally occupied the country have been the most miserable for the Afghan people.
Monday’s attack on a supposedly highly secured place once again showed the vulnerability of Afghanistan’s government buildings, coupled with the demoralized state of the government personnel, especially the security and intelligence forces.
In such a situation no concrete results are expected from talks with the Taliban in Qatar involving the Americans which were called off the same day.
The Taliban may have realized the futility of speaking with a Afghan turncoat like Zalmay Khalilzad, who has no sympathy for his countrymen but speaks for the vested interests of the American occupiers.
The US insistence, through Khalilzad, of permanent bases for American troops even after withdrawal of the bulk of the occupation forces, is the sticking point in the so-called peace talks.
Certainly, not dignified Afghan, whatever his religious affiliations or political leanings, will ever endorse the humiliation of the presence of American or any other foreign forces on the soil of Afghanistan.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, as the sincere most neighbouring sharing the same religion, language, culture, and history with Afghanistan, will never hesitate to help the Afghan people in their efforts to find peace.
Bloodshed and wanton killing should, however, stop, and all patriotic Afghans should focus their efforts on combating terrorism, which the Americans are promoting through the despicable Daesh.