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Faizel Patel – 16/08/2021
Al Jazeera political analyst Hashmatullah Moslih says while the collapse of Kabul and the advance of the Taliban took everyone by surprise, the takeover by the group spans a new era for Afghanistan
Moslih was speaking to Radio Islam following the Taliban’s control of Afghanistan on Monday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country and conceded that group had won the 20-year war.
The astonishingly quick collapse of the government, with the Taliban taking over the presidential palace on Sunday night, triggered fear and panic in Kabul.
Moslih says there was undercurrent signs that the Taliban were going to take over Afghanistan.
He says Afghanistan is finally free from western influence.
“Now we have seen finally a chapter of dark colony in Afghanistan has finished with all these secular liberal Afghans who were brought by the Americans from the West who has no social-based insight in the country and they were basically imposed after a number of fraudulent elections in the last nineteen to twenty years.”
Moslih says majority of Afghans want the Taliban in control.
“The biggest success of the Taliban is to break that ethnic and tribal barrier and present themselves as a national movement.”
Moslih says the West lamenting the fact that the Taliban is back in control of Afghanistan and their rules would set back women’s rights and other reforms is an exaggeration being portrayed by Western media.
“This is a game, one of the ploys that they used during the twenty years. They hard armies of cyberspace armies that kept on disseminating propaganda and lies about former Mujahideen calling the warlords, calling the Taliban women haters and presenting themselves as the champions of women.”
Moslih says images being widely circulated on social media showing Afghans fleeing the country consists of possibly just a few thousand Afghans who have double passports and will be heading back to Europe and other countries.
Listen to the interview with Hashmatullah Moslih
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