Recent analyses of the BBC, International Crisis Group and Foreign Policy magazine about the future of civil war in Afghanistan give us disappointing messages that the country is heading towards civil war after 2014. Ethnic and sectarian violence on a provincial level greatly disturbed the process of nation building.
The stark reality in today’s Afghanistan is that the government does not know what to do and how to manage the affairs of the state
“There is no government without an army, no army without money, no money without flourishing and no flourishing without good administration and justice” — Ibn Qutayba (a ninth century scholar).
Recent analyses of the BBC, International Crisis Group and Foreign Policy magazine about the future of civil war in Afghanistan give us disappointing messages that the country is heading towards civil war after 2014. Ethnic and sectarian violence on a provincial level greatly disturbed the process of nation building. The present feature of the governance structure in the country is nothing more than a mockery of citizens, where political bargaining and corruption has created an alarming situation. Interestingly, at present, 102 governors control 34 provinces with different administrative mechanisms. Each province has three governors: the formal governor (appointed by the Afghan Interior Ministry, informal governor (appointed by warlords and war criminals) and invisible governor (appointed by the Taliban). The three run the country’s administration in diverse directions based on different politico-religious ideologies. Their source of revenue and their way of governance, prosecution and justice is quite different. They all collect taxes, share in poppy cultivation, protect the containerised criminal trade and black market economy. They forcefully bring young people to the Governor’s House, train and arm them for the future civil war.
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