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In recent months the Taliban have once again unleashed a new wave of terror and violence across the country. No place in Afghanistan, even the capital city Kabul, is immune from the wickedness of this vile, vicious and shadowy terrorist criminal axis. From North to South, from West to East, every province, every village, every hamlet, even every niche of this land is in the eye of their fury-storm. They have become so daring that they kill and maim wherever and whenever they want. To our misfortune and dismay, every time they unleash terror and every time they just easily get away with law. The state within state is still going on despite the presence of tens of thousands of foreign forces, national security forces, and police, backed by a swarm of intelligence officials. The recent incident that has added to the woes and fear of the nation is the Taliban executed a man on the charges of kidnapping a child in the Qarabagh district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. The man was captured days after he purportedly abducted a minor from Ghazni city. However, the Taliban yesterday told residents of their plan to execute the kidnapper, says the governor spokesman. However, the spokesman would not give details about the victim or the abducted child.

A member of the district council, Jan Mohammad, said the fighters had captured a kidnapper and a police official in Qarabagh two days back.   
The captors said both would be put to death. This is not the only case where the armed militants have attempted to run their parallel kangaroo government and created state within state but it is the oft-repeated incident that speaks volumes of security lapses and loopholes. Then where are the enforcers of law? Why a minor went kidnapped? And why the Taliban took actions against the kidnapping of the minor instead of the government officials? Have they lapsed into a swoon or a stupor? Why are they not doing something substantial in this regard to stop this gradual holocaust of civilians as the Taliban killed a woman on the charges of adultery near Kabul just a few days back? Why are the perpetrators of this slaughter gaining grounds in provinces? And where are the intelligence hounds of the provincial security apparatus? And when those wearing the masks of spurious religiosity have started killings, civilians have gone into hibernation because of fear; the government officials have preferred to issue statements only. This very phenomenon has transformed the entire land veritably into a slaughterhouse where Afghans are slaughtered under one pretext or the other. After every incident, law enforcers are quick enough in telling the nation that where, how and when the crime took place but what they tell not unabashedly is why had they failed in protecting these civilians. They don’t get salaries just for issuing statements and talking to media rather they are being paid by the government to protect the lives, properties and honors of civilians. Contrary to rushing forward for safety and protection of civilians, no extraordinary concern is perceptible in their high echelons as the country has become a huge and sprawling slaughterhouse of terrorists. And above all it is too shocking to see that stray ideas and plans the top echelons had condescended to take to beat out and weed out terrorists are lying undone unattended for the top echelons’ disinterest. No crucial and substantial plan is seen in the official labyrinths, which is why militants have become so accustomed with brazenly challenging the writ of the government that no other force can dare to challenge them. However, those sitting in highly barricaded offices should know that militants will not keep restrained to killing the commoners rather they will get the top echelons too as already too many of them have come under their attacks. Now the need is the state security apparatus should come into move systematically and powerfully against the militants before they pull down the portico of the state structure with their evil doings.
 
 

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