The Differences Of Conflicts Between Afghanistan And Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a poor, landlocked country located in Central Asia. The country is quite small, with barely any water close by. With barely a 5th of the US’ GDP, Afghanistan is a underdeveloped country with little to no sanitation. Having about 6 million people with no access or poor welfare, the country has a low population along with low life expectancy. This underdeveloped, desolate, war torn country has a long continuing history.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq presented a new problem for the military they would be fighting an insurgency in both of these countries. The question how to fight small bands of often unidentified combatants led to the adoption of many practices and techniques from law enforcement agencies around the United States. The techniques and practices were somewhat refined the technology used to track individuals was still in its infancy and most was not user friendly or robust enough to handle the challenge of tracking hundreds to thousands of people and places with any detail. The other factor that was lacking was how to get the local populous to trust outsiders. These three separate but connected areas needed a quick upgrade.

The current instability and political turmoil in the nation of Afghanistan is a result of an attempted mix between an eclectic group of cultures and traditions and an attempted modern western style government. The collective Afghan people consist of hundreds of ethnicities including Pashtuns, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, and the Balochs, each with a distinctive cultural identity and belief system. Coupling thousands of years of tradition and belief with modernization and imperialist influence has lead to a war torn and politically unstable nation.

By October 2009 the United States (US) had been in a war in Afghanistan for eight years. Afghan President Hamid Karzai had just been accused of forgery in a recent re-election by tribe leaders. Karzai became president in 2001 after US forces had dissolved of the Taliban regime. In the US the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen had suggested the need for more US troops in Afghanistan to congress but did not formally request more troops Afghanistan. Months earlier the Taliban leader in Pakistan Baitullah Mehsud is thought to have been killed by a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike a remote area of Pakistan.

As the Afghan civil war continued, things progressively got worse for Afghan women, as more of Afghanistan landed under Taliban control. In 1992 when the Marxism inspired government that had been left behind as a result of the Soviet Union fell, it was instead replaced with a more traditional Islamic inspired government, and as such the Islamic State of Afghanistan was created. This was when the rights and treatments towards women can clearly be seen to be backtracking as the constitution was abandoned and a number of new laws were imposed. Part two of the civil war saw significant deterioration of Afghan women’s rights as the Taliban gained more control of Afghanistan.

Another distinction between these two mentioned governments was the governing system of each. For example, in Taliban Regime, the government was just over several provinces. They did not have control all over Afghanistan although they had a central government in Kabul. Their government was always in risk that one day it would be collapse. Some of the important offices were not run properly. There was not good management in ministries. Corruption was in most ministries, especially in courts. Instead, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan contains a good and proper governing system. It is trying to offer chances of development for its

(Hood, 2005) discussed the Soviets Union invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S invasion. It is important to understand historical events to make meaning of things in the contemporary world. In December 1979, it was a great turning point in Afghanistan history when the national intensity level rose to important, at that time, the Soviet troops crossed the Afghan Muslims country at this point in time Afghanistan was suffering from a civil war. The people needed a change (revolution). Hafizullah Amin who studies at Columbia University in New York and prime minister at the time wanted a more western form of government and social construction for the Afghan people, while most Muslims leaders detest Amin ideology of introducing western way of life

The instability, created by a decade of internal conflict in Afghanistan, allowed for outsider groups, such as the Soviet Union and later the Taliban, to seize power there. Even before the Soviet Invasion, Afghanistan was burdened with political instability, which stemmed from a lack of leadership at the presidential level and a power struggle between America and the USSR for access to the Afghan elites. This period of instability began under President Mohammed Daoud, who himself took power through a military coup against the previous leader, when he attempted to shift Afghanistan away from Soviet influence and towards America and the West. Daoud’s political maneuvering was faced with severe criticism from his main political opponents: the

Most people think of the War in Afghanistan as a war that the United States have been fighting over the last decade. But the truth is that Afghanistan has been a country familiar with war for over the last 35 years. Afghanistan became an independent nation in 1921 and The United States formally recognized Afghanistan as a county in 1934.(1) The first war involving the independent country of Afghanistan was against the Soviet Union when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan lasted a little over 10 years and set the conditions for a future war between Taliban in Afghanistan and the United States. Latter the United States declared war in Afghanistan after the terrorist attack on the United State on September 11th, 2001. The war was not against the country, but against the Taliban military and insurgents residing in the country. This war is still ongoing today, which makes the Afghanistan War the longest war ever fought by the United States of America.

War and conflict have raged in Southeast and Central Asia for centuries due to civil unrest and political instability. The rise of the Taliban and other militant insurgencies have escalated the dangers and unpredictability of an already unstable government in Afghanistan. The appointment of the new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour could result in a dangerous liaison with ISIS. The agenda of these jihadist extremists is the take over the Afghan and Pakistan governments in favor of the more stringent Islamic ways of the Taliban. These groups, professing to do the ‘work of God,’ are perpetrating a coarse and distorted interpretation of Islam and the Quran. Insurgents have committed violent acts including the killing of police, military personnel, assassinations of political figures, and suicide bombings (Ghufran, 2009, pg 44). Due to the dangerous capabilities of the Taliban combining with the organizational competence of ISIS, the United States coalition forces must be cautious about leaving too quickly from Afghanistan, which will also affect Pakistan.

One definition of ethnicity reads as followed “identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural group and observance of that group’s customs, beliefs, or language”. Ethnicity defines many of us but a few want our definition to be “cleansed” and this is when civil conflict arises. Ethnicity is frequently cited as an explanation for conflicts in the post cold war era. Yugoslavia, a prime example of a system that encountered ethnic conflict that led to a violent civil war, consisted of six republics and two autonomous districts. The government at the time wanted control of these republics but the republics wanted to be free from government control. There was a push by several ethnic groups to form their own sovereign

Afghanistan, a country located in South Asia just east of Iran whose population is 28,513,677, is one of the countries that I chose to address. Their government is under Transitional Authority which is in a state of unrest as national elections would formally dissolve this system and adapt or establish the Government of Afghanistan under a new constitution. The country like others in the Middle East suffers from enormous poverty and a few other problems to include the lack of skilled and educated workers, which also has such a grave effect on most other countries. The lack of is more than likely what lies beneath the country’s poverty. If people aren’t educated or don’t have the knowledge to perform

Throughout history Afghanistan has served as a focal point for the movement of people, goods, and ideas due to its central location linking East Asia with that of the Arabian Peninsula. The land has seen conflict and warfare with the passage of great empires to include those of Alexander the Great, the Ghaznavids, three Anglo-Afghan wars, the Soviet-Afghan war, as well as the GWOT, of which Afghanistan plays an integral role. The independent, fractious, and culturally diverse Afghanistan we see today is a direct derivative of its unique history and geography which has been dominated by external influence for centuries.

After massive fraud during the 2014 presidential elections in Afghanistan, in September 2014 against the constitution a deal to form a national unity government (NUG) has been signed by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdulah. Absence of a functioning security and economic strategy, reckless foreign policy and weakened diplomacy has resulted to increased foreign interference, massive corruption, poverty, unemployment, aid reduction and increased casualties, violence and insecurity in the country. Lack of a political opposition, weak political parties, dependent parliament and fragile civil society organizations are not in a position to hold the government accountable. The leaderships of the country try to veil the reality and keep the nation in gloom. If firm and immediate measures are not taken by the Afghan people, the internal conflict and power sharing by the leaderships of the government will jeopardize the massive investment made in last one decade by Afghans and their allies.

Pakistan which is known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is country in South Asia. Having a population more than 180 million, it is the sixth ranked for the most population, and it is the 36th largest country in the world in terms of area. Pakistan is surrounded by China to the North, India to the East, Afghanistan to the West and Iran at South. Interesting fact is that Pakistan shares it’s marine border with Oman.