The Taliban have been flaunting their rifles everywhere to show that they have taken Afghanistan by weapons, although they call their victory attributed to the mercy of God and the support of the people.
The people, who were shocked by last year’s development, expected that the hidden appendices of the Doha Agreement might lead to other events that benefit peace, work and freedom. Many eyes are still waiting for the flexibility of the Taliban, the establishment of an all-inclusive government and Afghanistan’s exit from isolation. But gradually, the days of the Taliban’s arrogance and the shock of the society will end, and soon the Taliban will realize that what sustains the rule in this land is not the barrel of the gun and the whip of tyranny. The people will be shocked and realize that there is no miracle and they should not hope for the annexes of the Doha Agreement and the mercy of the Taliban.
This process has started and society is changing sides again. No matter how much the Taliban insist that nothing has changed, the law of God is old and the ruler of Sharia is unchangeable, but the environment that the Taliban ruled over has changed from the foundation and the society will not tolerate the reconstruction of the first Taliban emirate. The position and presence of women in society is one of the most important signs of this change. In those years, Afghan women did not have the self-awareness, cohesion and self-confidence they have today, nor was the society open to women and supporting their rights as it is today. In the past year, Afghan women have been the vanguard of the struggle against the Talibanization of the country, and despite the widespread repression, not only have they not backed down, but their protest movements have become more mature and coherent. In the last few days, various cities of the country witnessed unprecedented protests by women. These protests, which occurred after the massacre of Hazara boys and girls in the Kaj education center, have rekindled the torch of hope in the hearts of the people in the most bitter days. 20 years of relative opportunities for education, work and freedom for Afghan women and girls are now bearing fruit.
Apart from Panjshir and Andarab provinces, in the past one year, only in Balkhab did the Taliban’s opponents take the trigger seriously. Suppression of Balkhab for some time is the expansion of the scope of resistance. But now the scope of armed resistance against the Taliban is expanding again. The reaction of the residents of Nuristan’s Douab and Mandol districts against the Taliban two days ago also indicated the end of the period of waiting and tolerance. The Taliban have tortured and beheaded a large number of their political and military opponents, in the eastern provinces there have been many reports of corpses lying on the roads, gardens and streams, and sometimes people have pulled severed heads from the streams, but in the past one year and several months The survivors of the victims did not take the risk of confronting the Taliban and there was less talk of revenge. In Nuristan, the death of commander Bahram under the torture of the Taliban caused a strong protest and reaction from the local people, his relatives shouted for revenge and it seems that the seeds of resistance have been planted in that province as well.
The news of resistance has been heard from Badakhshan for some time and yesterday the Shaki district administration of that province was taken out of the hands of the Taliban. In the international forums, there is talk about the possibility of the expansion of resistance against the Taliban, and it is likely that we will see more developments in the northeast of the country in the coming days and weeks.
The weariness of the war is evident throughout the society, and people still expect the Taliban to respond reasonably to these pressures and provide an environment for interaction and dialogue, to give in to the civil and political rights and freedoms of the people, and to build an Afghanistan that is the home of all the people of the country. Does the Taliban have such political capacity to prevent an all-out war?
