News:
Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Charity and Former British Foreign Secretary said, “According to the report, 5 million Afghans require vital support such as food, housing and emergency medical care, while a further 4 million have longer-term needs including safety from conflict, regular employment and access to healthcare. Some 650,000 Afghans are displaced within the country, while 2.5 million are refugees”.
In a statement on April 2, Kerry said, “The peaceful handover of power will be ‘just as important as the progress achieved over the past decade in building a stronger, more secure and prosperous Afghanistan.'”
Comment:
Over a decade of U.S. presence in Afghanistan and its efforts to impose an exported system (Democracy & Capitalism) upon Afghanistan with the help of B-52 and massive bribery, the results have been a human catastrophe. Afghanistan has been pushed into a tragic abyss. The presence of U.S. and NATO forces have brought with them corruption and devastation.
The above are two pertinent statements from two very high officials that are paradoxical to each other. Miliband is referring to the situation that to some extent is addressing the reality on the ground, while Kerry, as usual, is trying to lie and to give the impression that much has been done in the last 13 years. The reality is that both Miliband and Kerry are responsible for the corruption, poverty, killings of the innocent Muslims of Afghanistan by both U.S. and UK.
Today, people are again being given a false hope, to place their trust in the elections that are going to happen on 5th April, 2014. Like previous two elections that saw huge fraud, in this election too, it goes without an iota of doubt that the U.S. will bring another pawn that could fit well in their agenda for Afghanistan and the region. Spending millions of dollars on the campaigns through media and other sources, U.S. is desperately trying to make this election a success, and hence provide the US with some credibility and ‘face saving’ in the context of its drawdown of military presence in Afghanistan.
Kerry indeed acts as if he is blind to the reality Afghans are facing on daily bases. As mentioned by IRC millions of Afghans are devoid of basic necessities i.e. food, clothes and shelter. There is nothing called ‘security and peace’ in Afghanistan; the country suffers from poverty and illiteracy; moreover corruption at state-level has made Afghanistan number-1 in the world amongst the top corrupt countries. It must be asked, which progress and which achievement is Kerry talking about?
Indeed Afghanistan will dwell further into the darkness of poverty, chaos and turmoil as long as the U.S. and NATO forces are present here. Rolling up their entire of presence along with their imposed failed system is the only way forward to bring peace and prosperity in Afghanistan.
These western leaders will continue giving contradictory statements and figures in an attempt to conceal their heinous crimes and to try to continue to deceive the people in Afghanistan and the region.
It is clearly hypocritical how Miliband is highlighting his concern of the human suffering, from the platform of a charity, while he himself played the role of bringing and supporting this devastation in Afghanistan. The likes of Miliband and Kerry should know well, that their crimes against humanity in Afghanistan cannot be white-washed by issuing statements of concern or throwing breadcrumbs as charity.
A complete removal, of the imperial presence in the country, can be swiftly achieved by a righteous leadership of Khilafah. The current capitalist system in the country is already on life-support, and can barely function. A complete replacement of the present system, with the system of Islam is required today. The Islamic model of governance and its Systems (Economics, Law etc.) will enable the people of Afghanistan to liberate themselves from the hegemony of imperial powers and their handful of puppets.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr Naeem Momand
Kabul- Wilayah Afghanistan