Afghanistan In Crisis: Here Are The Details of What's Happening
The American forces are leaving Afghanistan gradually and with their exit Taliban is getting stronger in the region. This is why locals have taken up weapons to fight and keep on increasing their control over Afghanistan.
Six months. That’s how quickly the Afghanistan government could collapse after the United States military withdraws from the war-ravaged country by August 31, 2021.This is the assessment of the US’ intelligence community, the Wall Street Journal reported in June, citing unnamed officials aware of the matter.
On July 9, Taliban officials claimed that they had taken control of 85 percent of Afghanistan’s territory. Their ability to achieve this so quickly was bolstered by some Afghan soldiers retreating.
Biden pushed back against the notion the US mission has failed but also noted that it remains unlikely the government would control all of Afghanistan after the US. leaves. He urged the Afghan government and Taliban, which he said remains as formidable as it did before the start of the war, to come to a peace agreement.
“We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,” Biden said in a speech from the White House’s East Room. “Afghan leaders have to come together and drive toward a future.”
The administration in recent days has sought to frame ending the conflict as a decision that Biden made after concluding it’s an “unwinnable war” and one that “does not have a military solution.”
Indian Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Killed:
Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui has been killed in Afghanistan, said the country’s ambassador in Delhi.The 41-year-old, who was chief photographer for Reuters news agency in India, was on assignment when he died.
Danish Siddiqui was doing media coverage of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan for the last one week and was accompanied by a contingent of security forces there. The Afghan army has told that when the troops were trying to retake a large area of Spin Boldak city of Kandahar, it had an encounter with the Taliban and in this encounter, Danish Siddiqui and some soldiers from Afghanistan were killed.
MEA closely monitoring the situation:
“India is closely monitoring the evolving security situation in Afghanistan. The safety and security of our personnel is paramount,” the foreign ministry has said in a statement. “The Consulate General of India in Kandahar has not been closed. However, due to the intense fighting near Kandahar city, India-based personnel have been brought back for the time being,” MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a statement.
“As an important partner of Afghanistan, India remains committed to a peaceful, sovereign and democratic Afghanistan,” he added. Describing the security situation in Afghanistan as fluid and deteriorating, the Afghan envoy to India Farid Mamundzay has said the Taliban need to cease violence and there should be an end to the bloodshed.
“More than 200,000 Afghan civilians are displaced already. There is an active fight going on between Afghan forces and Taliban fighters in 200 districts out of a total of 375. There is also trouble in 18 border districts that share a border with several countries Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran,” the envoy said.
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