(MENAFN- Ahmadzai) The end of war in Afghanistan created hardships and poverty affecting local businesses operating in Kabul city, and ordinary Afghans too. They all once had dreams of being great that started more than twenty years ago backed by Western politics. Ironically, it all fell apart when the US coalition decided to depart.
There has been some progress made under the former President Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai regimes, but now, we can only look to history for clues. And a lot of challenges that are visible today in front of our eyes remains unsolved like access to food, water, and medicine. Most of the work was done by foreign contractors and NGOs, but behind it was a corruption machine which many sources have acknowledged.
We see this today, for example, the medicine factories that were built, the airlines that were operating, are all shutdown now, and the working people decided to abandoned infrastructure funded in part or mostly with aid funds.
There is no excuse for such abandonment, however, on August 15th, the Taliban came to power and making everything irrelevant. This also created the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of all times in Afghanistan and is hurting needy people and the business sector.
Right now, we can only vow that the Qatari government and the Taliban act in accordance with UN human rights principles and restore economic means in an orderly way as quickly as possible. Just last week, an interim government was announced in Afghanistan under European leadership, but still the Afghan economy is not running smoothly.
The war has been going on in Afghanistan for the last four decades, but as several media sources correctly stated the situation on the ground is only getting worse.
It is now only a matter of time that the Afghans themselves to reject leadership that cannot serve their needs.
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This op-ed is written by Meladul Haq Ahmadzai who is based in Canada.
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