In an exclusive interview to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Amrullah Saleh, one of leaders of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), said on November 13 that “the West, our former great partner, today talks only about women’s rights in Afghanistan.”
“They do not want to talk about other problems that they themselves created in Afghanistan. They want to bury their sin, their guilt because they betrayed Afghanistan and handed it over to the Taliban,” Saleh said
According to him, the Taliban “are the time bomb, and there will definitely be an explosion.” “Any other analysis related to the Taliban comes from two sources: orientation to the West or simplified understanding of the Afghan issue; they pay the largest sums to the Taliban. Afghanistan’s sky remains under the control of the United States. There are drones flying there all the time,” an outspoken critic of the Taliban said.
“…The Taliban are spreading like cancer. They have already set up 19,000 religious schools in Afghanistan – madrassas – in Afghanistan. And this happens with actual financial support from the United States. “The United States knows what it is doing; the current aid provided by the United States and the Wes certainly helps the Taliban,” Saleh noted.
According to him, the religious fanaticism is continuing to increase in Afghanistan.
“…Firstly, half of Afghanistan's population – women – live as slaves. They have no rights, they cannot travel freely, they cannot get an education, be treated in a hospital, and they cannot work. Secondly, two million Afghans fled the country, primarily to Iran, a little to Pakistan and about 300,000 Europe,” said Saleh. “Thirdly, Afghanistan lives in complete international isolation. Fourthly, there is no real investment in Afghanistan and without this no economy can develop. Fifthly, the Taliban have created a rigid vertical of power that works only for them, through them and for their interest. In the management system they created there is nothing for the people – everything is only for the Taliban,” Afghan politician said.
He further noted that the religious fanaticism will continue to increase in Afghanistan.
“For whom are students of 19,000 madrassas trained? In our country there are not so many mosques, there are not so many jobs for mullahs. This means that they will be militants of the proxy army that is being established by the Taliban,” Amrullah Saleh noted.
Amrullah Saleh (born October 15, 1972) is an Afghan politician who served as the first vice president of Afghanistan from February 2020 to August 2021, and acting interior minister from 2018 to 2019. He was the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) from 2004 to 2010.
Saleh was a powerful political figure in Afghanistan and has been the target of numerous assassination attempts. An outspoken critic of the Taliban and Pakistan, Saleh has been described as combative and as having a hard-working nature.
Following the August 15, 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Ashraf Ghani fled the country and Saleh relocated to the Panjshir Valley. There, Saleh proclaimed himself the caretaker president of Afghanistan and announced the formation of the National Resistance Front, an anti-Taliban resistance movement, alongside Ahmad Massoud.
Recall, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary-General Imangali Tasmagambetov told Sputnik Belarus in an exclusive interview on November 15 that the territory of Afghanistan is indeed still a source of very serious problems.
“The long-term actions of the Western allies in Afghanistan have complicated the situation and have not brought us any closer to a positive solution. Today, the CSTO member states are striving to do everything possible to help normalize the situation in that country,” said the CSTO secretary-general. “Our actions include, among other things, diplomatic and socio-economic measures, but our position on combating drug trafficking, the terrorist threat and the threat of terrorist extremism has been and will continue to be the toughest.”
He emphasized that leaving Afghan society to chance will not lead to anything good for the country, the region or the world.
