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NUG Fails to Suppress Taliban in 2 Years Governance: Ex-Military Officers

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

Simultaneously with the National Unity Government (NUG) passes its two years, a number of former military officers say the government has failed in providing the security and suppressing the armed Taliban group, but despite high causality, Afghan security forces prevented Taliban.

Ariananews findings indicate that nearly 23 districts were exchanged between Taliban and Afghan forces in the two years of National Unity Government’s governance.

The findings also shows that more than 150 suicide attacks were carried out by the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the past two years.

Afghanistan’s national unity government, which completed two troubled years in power Thursday, has set aside its internal differences and prepared an upbeat report of its achievements and goals to present to international donors in Brussels next week, hoping to secure their renewed commitment to long-term support.

By highlighting leaders’ efforts to combat public corruption and waste, and outlining a five-year plan to develop agriculture, private investment and regional ties, President Ashraf Ghani and his aides hope to prove that Kabul deserves the trust of a skeptical world community that has paid Afghanistan’s bills for the past 14 years.

Abdullah Abdullah, Ghani’s governing partner and chief executive, has embraced the initiative and dropped the sharp public criticism he leveled last month at Ghani, calling him “unfit” to lead.

This week, Abdullah said that the government will remain “legitimate” after the two-year power-sharing agreement expires Thursday, and that it will continue for Ghani’s full five-year presidential term.

The electoral reform process has been excruciatingly slow and is set to culminate in a very watered-down version of its original mandate (with changes that focus mainly on who will control the selection of the electoral commissioners – further analysis on this is forthcoming).

It is very unlikely that Wolesi Jirga elections will be held this year, with the Independent Election Commission (IEC) in stasis: donors froze most of their funding, the chairperson resigned and the commission is awaiting a renewed selection process.

No preparations have yet been made for district council elections that are supposed to take place for the first time.

Unity Government leaders must take steps to avoid scenarios that mirror the instability witnessed in Iraq wherein the state was fragmented along ethnic lines — in Afghanistan ethnic divisions could lead to the strengthening of the Taliban and other extremist groups such as ISIS. What Afghanistan needs during its transition period is unity and ethnic harmony.

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