Changes in Afghanistan
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As Taliban activists celebrated the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, Aalia, a 40-year-old high school teacher, was outside a bank demanding money to buy groceries.
Banks have been tightly closed since the Taliban invaded Kabul more than two weeks ago. The few reopened branches have set strict limits, allowing people to sit in line all day and be distracted. financial dependence.
“Since 6 o’clock in the morning, I have been standing in line,” Aalia told the Financial Times after the night of Kabul was stabbed by Taliban artillery. “There’s nothing left in my house and my kitchen.”
Aalia’s plight showed the disparity between the excitement of the Taliban leaders to US Exit and the major challenges they face in transitioning from Islamic militants to the operational profession.
Elite Taliban units equipped with end-of-war weapons that experts say may have been confiscated from dedication Afghan military forces quickly seized Kabul airport after the last Americans left. Anas Haqqani, a prominent Taliban-affiliated militant group, told a local journalist that the country “has achieved unprecedented freedom”.
Many Afghan people have been released that Kabul overthrew the Taliban before it became a battlefield, expressing hope that the US departure will announce to be able to fight and the violence that has plagued the country for two decades.
“I was very worried that there would be riots and robberies,” said a cheese seller in a residential area. “I was very happy that the Taliban came in peace. There was no conflict and they stopped the riots in the city.”
However, Afghans are also skeptical that the Taliban were responsible for the country’s economic and social problems. Some were anxious to lose their freedom, especially for women, who were imprisoned in their homes under the leadership of mature Muslims while the group gained power from 1996-2001.
“I like American news – it’s good that the war is over,” Aalia said. “But it is also important to work. It is better to let women [to work] as before. . . the government should be careful with payments that have not been received for months. They should pay close attention to the economic situation. . . the Taliban should not write a mullah to the ministry of finance, finance and health. ”
The Taliban fighters who had taken over the streets of Kabul on Tuesday were elated, as their leaders celebrated what they call a “independence day” in Afghanistan.
However those allies of the former Afghan government were not relocated to US warplanes he was left to live in fear. Many were hiding or moving from house to house while the Taliban were searching for former members of the security forces.
“There is a list of people they are following – going to people’s homes, talking to their families and trying to find them,” said Rudra Chaudhuri, a professor in the Department of War Study at King’s College London.
The Taliban did not announce the new government, although the group believes it agreed after a three-day meeting in Kandahar with its leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.
The researchers believe that the process of creating supervisors was delayed by disagreements between the various factions sharing responsibilities.
But Asadullah Waheedi, an assistant professor at the University of Kabul and an expert on the Taliban, said the group’s leaders were also discussing whether to include non-Taliban politicians to form the “coalition government” demanded by other countries.
“The biggest heated debate right now in the Taliban leadership is, ‘Are we allowed under sharia law to share power with those from the old corrupt government’,” Waheedi said.
The Taliban are trying to get others to return to their old ways, no matter how much they think they can do re-establish the Afghan community. Muslims have committed atrocities, spread peace scenes and Talib the Great kisses a child. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, has urged international economists to return to Afghanistan to rebuild the economy and called on traders to help the country cope with the economic crisis.
Primary schools have also reopened for young children, including girls, after the Taliban acknowledged the uniforms of children and teachers adhered to Islamic principles. Older students were not allowed to return.
The group has replaced the flag of the former state tricolor with its own flag, which is white with the proclamation of the Muslim faith, or shadah, written in bold type.
But for many Afghans, the only thing left to do is to earn enough money to buy basic necessities. “We can accept anything,” said one man as he watched the flags being lowered, “if the banks would open.”