Polls Over, But What Will US-Occupied Afghanistan Gain?

By: Kayhan Int’l

The much delayed parliamentary polls in American-occupied Afghanistan ended yesterday on a note of violence, acts of terrorism, bloodshed, and death of the innocent.
This is what happens when the country is under occupation and groaning under the jackboots of the Yankees who despite their failure to bring peace and security are refusing to leave Afghanistan.

Yet the Afghan candidates and the voters showed remarkable resilience to hold public rallies and cast ballots, braving the bomb blasts, either by the Taliban or the newly arrived Daesh terrorists (courtesy of the American occupiers), that might go any moment and anywhere, given the doubtful loyalties of the private body guards who in one case killed the candidate they were supposed to protect.

The estimated 50 percent turnout is commendable in view of the chaotic conditions of the country that has seen no peace for the past forty years since the communists killed President Mohammad Daoud Khan in April 1978 to end Afghanistan’s independence and pave the way for the Soviet invasion and the occupation of December 1979 that lasted a decade. 

The Red Army’s withdrawal in February 1989, although the result of the "perestroika” policy of President Mikhail Gorbachev, was also, to a certain extent, the harassment by the different mujahidin groups, armed by the US, trained in Pakistan, and mostly funded by Saudi Arabia as part of the minority Wahhabi cult’s bid to promote the divisive doctrine of takfirism among backward tribesmen largely unaware of the dynamism of Islam and the achievements of modern civilization.

As per the US-Saudi plan, the coalition government of President Burhanoddin Rabbani was dislodged by the Taliban in 1977, and next to remove all opposition, terrorists were hired to cowardly kill the Lion of Panjshir Valley (Shir-e Panjshir), Defence Minister Ahmad Shah Mas’oud, in order to tighten tentacles on Kabul and implement the barbaric laws of the days of Arab Jahiliyya for tarnishing the image of Islam. 

In September 2001, the American and Zionist intelligence agencies carried out the joint plan to implode the 110-storey high twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, the moment two pilotless small aircraft, supposedly hijacked by Afghan-based al-Qae’da terrorists, plowed through them. 

This was the much-needed pretext for Washington to attack and occupy Afghanistan, saying its stooge Osama bin Laden, who was now no longer of any use, had carried out the sophisticated operations on the other side of the world from his remote mountain hideout.

That explains in a nutshell the continued misery of the Afghan people who are unlikely to gain independence even after results of parliamentary polls have been announced to the sound of more explosions and deaths, since the evil Americans are not willing to leave the country.

Look what has happened in Iraq and Lebanon after the nationwide elections. If Baghdad, five months after the parliamentary polls, has at last succeeded in naming a president and a prime minister (no government still), Beirut continues to be without a government following its May parliamentary elections – both the countries because of American meddling.

No wonder, the voting commission controlled by the government, which is under American influence, announced that the initial results will not be released before mid-November and final results will not be out until later in December.

God help the Afghan people and deliver them from the jaws of the Great Satan and its devilish terrorist pals, such as Daesh.

Terrorism, astronomical growth of poppy cultivation, and drug smuggling are among the gifts of the American occupiers to the Afghan people, whose elected representatives, whether in the legislature or the executive, ought to realize that the US is not their friend and has no wish to see Afghanistan flourish as a developing and independent country, enjoying peaceful coexistence amongst the Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek, Baluch, and other ethnicities as well as religious groups, in addition to building fraternal and friendly ties with neighbours.

Rather Washington is the avowed enemy of not just the Afghan Muslims, but also the whole Muslim world, as is evident by its destructive policies in Syria and Iraq, its inherent animosity against the Islamic Republic of Iran, its support for the illegal Zionist entity in Palestine, and its control of the oil-rich Arab states through murderous unelected puppets.

It is time, Afghan people especially venerable groups such as the Hazaras, formed popular mobilization units on the patterns of Iraq’s Hashd ash-Sha’bi and Yemen’s Ansarallah to cleanse the country of the terrorist groups and drive out the American occupation forces.