Afghanistan is now at the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
Down the ages, Afghanistan, the land where many “Great Games” have been enacted, continues to baffle its rulers and neighbours as it brings misery to its impoverished and fratricidal strife-torn suffering people. In the past two years, it has been ruled by its own fundamentalist regime, the Taliban, with no succour to its people but added fatalities, hunger and deprivation, besides the growing abuse of human rights.
Afghanistan is now at the brink of a humanitarian disaster. The hasty, inglorious American exit in August 2021 has contributed nothing but political instability for a people already plagued by various ethnic diversities. That the Taliban have reneged on most of its promises given to the US and the international community prior to the American exit, especially on freedom of speech, democracy and women’s rights is a cause of much turmoil within Afghanistan itself, apart from causing dismay to the nation’s well-wishers abroad.
