Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan President, in a meeting with a number of political leaders and influential representatives of ethnic groups, emphasized on the survival and endurance of ‘Republic’ in which they agreed upon rapid mobilizing, strengthening and equipping of public uprisings against the onslaught of the armed opposition [Taliban].

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), in a recent report, described the first six months of 2021 to be the bloodiest months in the past 12 years. The report also highlighted that women, boys and girls were the main victims, making half of these casualties.

Nearly 20 years later, the last squad of American troops left the Bagram Airbase. Such an evacuation represents the end of US and NATO military missions in Afghanistan. The Bagram Airbase, once home to tens of thousands of American troops which and considered a symbol of US authority in the region, has currently turned into a ruined compound.

Afghanistan has witnessed waves of targeted assassinations and fatal explosions inside Masjids among worshipers over the past year, killing hundreds of Muslim scholars (Ulama), imams of Masjids (preachers) and lecturers of Islamic studies. A number of Afghan scholars have regarded such attacks to be extremely ‘questionable’ as they unequivocally accuse some of the internal elements in the current regime to have been red-handed with such filthy conspiracies.