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Roam across the country, observe the plight of its inhabitants, and imagine that how the government, security forces and NATO curtail recent acts of terror and violence. Though there have been too many treacherous, deadly and cunning acts from insurgents - nevertheless the one where a dozen members of the Afghanistan National Police, including a commander defected and joined ranks of the Taliban in western Farah province - speaks volumes of skullduggery. It shows how much weaker the recruitment mechanism is and how prone the nation is to insecurity, and skullduggery of militants. According to provincial police chief, Brigadier Gen. Agha Noor Kitnoz, the renegade policemen were led by Sergeant Mirwais, who had been in-charge of three check-posts in the Shivan area of Bala Baluk district. He said the renegades had taken away a police vehicle, a tank and ammunition. If someone delves deep into the story he would find it very interesting how a former militant leader became a police commander, and why?
A former militant, Mirwais joined the peace process some three years ago along with 20 of his comrades, who later was given a job in the police force. What a joke! All over the world you wouldn’t see such a recruitment mechanism where ex-thugs are given defense jobs but since ours is an eccentric country where there is oddity in all affairs, so this is not a strange incident.
Now the oddity of the case is that Amir Mohammad Ayubi, the provincial peace council head, says that he didn’t know anyone by this name—Mirwais. However Kitnoz still claims Mirwais had joined the peace process three years ago when the peace council was not functional. It clearly indicates that the way things are going on in this war-wrecked country bodes ominously very ill. Reason, rationality, and well-orchestrated mechanism don’t prevail. The nation is sure to fall on very perilous and uncertain times. If you have any sense and sympathy for the country with a deep political insight, it is not difficult to conclude that there are three Afghanistans at present.
One is the Afghanistan of the mighty, powerful and influential. The second Afghanistan is of the militants, who own the capacity to challenge the writ of the government anywhere in the country even right in the heart of the capital—Kabul. The third Afghanistan is of the hoi polloi, the most downtrodden, exploited, and deprived. It is the Afghanistan of the elite and influential that should have set the tone, pace and mechanism for nation-building and reconstruction of the ruined country. And it is the Afghanistan of the militants that should have renounced the violence, brought breakage of relations with Pakistan, which is proving a great demolishing and ugly agent of discord. And it is the Afghanistan of the downtrodden, poor and civilians that should win and get victory, because it is the most patriotic Afghanistan. There indeed are three distinct, disparate and warring Afghanistan’s at present, and until there is one unified and conformed Afghanistan there is no peace and prosperity in our part of the world. Smothered with intrigues, it has become a sprawling field of power games where one goes just to see another powerful coming in, and leaving the Afghanistan of the deprived, fretting.
The civilian populace and patriot inhabitants are indeed in a very undesirable predicament. They need a big hand of balm to mitigate their enormous and colossal pains and sufferings and to redress their miseries. However, the gnawing question is that where is this big balming hand? And when will that come into movement to take this nation out of the jaws of abject poverty, insecurity, treachery and intrigues?

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