Analysis, Side Feature, South Asia

14 Years on, Kunduz is again Witnessing Colonial Terror and Savagery

On 28 of September, Taliban attacked Kunduz from three sides and captured it. Though the government afterwards claimed that they have recaptured it from Taliban but Taliban denied the government claims. Heavy fighting is happening in the city until then. US and NATO bombed different areas of the city, killing and injuring dozens of innocent people and displacing thousands of residents of Kunduz. In one of the airstrike, US bombed MFS, a hospital run by ‘Doctors without Border’, killing 9 hospital doctors and workers, wounded 38. Moreover, in another airstrike a market lose over ten million USD cost of goods.

Comment:

The US and NATO bombing of Kunduz yet again proved to everyone that the world biggest terrorists are US and NATO themselves, not those who stood against the illegal and brutal invasion of the colonialists, who for achieving their anti-Islamic objectives massacred innocent Muslims. Fourteen years ago when the brutal invasion of US began, Kunduz witnessed US fighter plans dropping thousands of bombs from the sky, and on the ground its allies, the northern alliance, terrorized people by murdering colluding with the enemy.

This time again, Kunduz did not fall for peace but fell because of the proxy wars of the regional countries, as well as because of the colonial strategic objectives of US and NATO in the northern areas of Afghanistan. In order to achieve the strategic objectives, not only Kunduz rather all Northern provinces are going to be changed into the new Waziristan in Afghanistan, aiming to extend the war to central Asia.

Indeed for the colonialists occupying Afghanistan has never been an objective in itself, rather it has always been a mean to gain other objectives using the strategic location of Afghanistan. That’s the reason why an internal rift has been created between Pashtun and Tajik tribes, and the focus has been shifted from the greater problem of the foreign forces to something ethnic, where they are harming each other and not the invaders. Pashtuns are being smeared for helping the Taliban while Tajiks are maligned for being too pro government. Alas, both these tribes are treating each other as if they have some deep ideological rivalry. It’s the same “divide and rule” policy that aims to further deepen the division between these two ethnicities, so that they don’t see colonialism as the root cause of all the miseries of Afghanistan and its people.

At a time when John Kerry created the “National Disunity government” that is busy in inflaming the internal rifts, the colonialists are sitting quietly behind closed doors in their bases in Afghanistan, extending its regional strategic aims, using the corrupt ruler elites of Afghanistan.

Indeed it’s the time to put our differences aside and join hands together against the colonialists, and their political, financial and colonial ideological objectives. We could defeat the enemy with the strength of our ideas, both political and intellectual, by calling to the method of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, by re-establishing the Islamic state, so that we could eject the colonialist’s presence and obliterate its plans and culture.

 

Saifullah Mustanir

Kabul – Wilayah Afghanistan