Afghanistan headed for civil war,says Ex commander

Two years after the US forces abruptly left Kabul, Afghanistan is headed towards a civil war, the Taliban is now riddled with factionalism, and the country is fast becoming a safe haven for foreign terrorists, a former Afghan commander has said. "I believe that the situation in Afghanistan is very critical and dangerous and it's going in a dangerous direction, which could be a civil war again, or which could be a split to Afghanistan, because you see that in the last two years, Afghanistan has been controlled by terrorists and it has fallen into terrorist hands," Lt. Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, who was chief of staff for the army at the time the capital city of Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021, told PTI in an interview.

Alizai currently lives in the US and has recently launched an initiative to unite Afghans outside the country. Expressing his deep dissatisfaction over the current situation in Afghanistan, the former Afghan commander blames the Biden administration for abruptly leaving Afghanistan and its people at the mercy of the Taliban. The number of terrorist organisations in Afghanistan has expanded during the Taliban regime, he said.Even African terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab have established a foothold in Afghanistan and they have started training its militants, he alleged. “And everything is happening under the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan,” he said.

“This is the situation. Al-Qaeda is active. Daish is getting more and more active and a lot of resistance groups are being announced and established against the Taliban regime in different parts, which will of course lead Afghanistan to another serious civil war or possible split (of Afghanistan),” Alizai said.Responding to a question, Alizai said that Afghanistan under the Taliban is headed to become a safe haven for terrorists.“I think the Biden administration made a big mistake at that time, or especially Biden himself. He had the opportunity to collect more information about Afghanistan and a little bit more deep dive into the situation in Afghanistan. But the decision was so prompt, so quickly and even without thinking deeply about the current situation that's going on in Afghanistan,” he said.