The Taliban meet this Tuesday half a year since his return to power in Afghanistan, plunged into a serious economic crisis and trying to convince the world that they can be trusted, while the population daily experiences the loss of rights, such as work or female education.
The international recognition It is key so that the fundamentalists can recover the funds for the reconstruction of the country that were suspended after they came to power, and that if they did arrive, they would be a relief to avoid a humanitarian and economic catastrophe in Afghanistan.
But during these six monthsthe Islamists “have not been able to be recognized by the international community and have not been accepted as a legitimate government by the afghan society“, since they did not take into account “ethnic diversity” when forming a government and the security state “is also not up to the task,” Afghan political analyst Ahmad Saeedi explained to Efe.
While the fundamentalists have yet to achieve their goal, political analyst Fazal Hadi Wazin believes they are at least making progress internally.
“So far, for the last six months, the Islamic Emirate government (as the Taliban call themselves) has done well in terms of governance. When the war ended, the security situation improved and the Islamic Emirate eliminated the islands of power in the country and built a strong and centralized government“Wazin told Efe.
Externally, however, the Islamists “lack an inclusive government that is made up of with good reputation of all ethnic diversity and it needs a more active diplomacy to meet the demand of the different ethnic groups and the international community,” the analyst said.
System on the verge of collapse
While the Taliban try to achieve international recognition, the Afghan population tries to get ahead in the midst of the severe economic and humanitarian crisis it suffers.
After the suspension of funds, the country’s assets were frozen and the activities of the private sector were reduced by 40%, while many of the public sector workers have not been paid for months.
“We are going through a very bad economic situation, more than 24 million of our people need urgent humanitarian aid, the banking system is blank or collapsed due to lack of cash, and the Economic sanctions and the inability of the Taliban caused the financial impact and the economic system on the verge of collapse,” Mohammad Arfi Nikmal, a private sector specialist in Afghanistan, told Efe.
The lack of funds also severely affected the system of Health Afghan, that is at the limit due to the lack of means, infrastructure, medical personnel and the help of international humanitarian organizations.
Health workers believe that the system will not recover unless the Taliban and the international community take urgent action to prevent the country from facing an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.
“I call on the Islamic Emirate to appoint professional workers for the health sector and attract the support of the international community pTo recover the health sector, otherwise it will be on the verge of collapse,” Afghan doctor Baz Mohmmad Shirzad told Efe.
women’s rights
With the takeover of the fundamentalists, women also saw how the advances of the last two decades of US occupation in terms of Rights, they completely vanished.
Within six months, the Taliban abolished the Ministry of Women’s Affairsrestricted their education and work, prohibited athletic sports for women and appointed a government cabinet without the participation of the female sex.
“In the last twenty yearss we had great achievements in all fields of society with the contribution of women, But six months after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, all our dreams seem to have vanished, the Taliban still don’t believe in women’s rights,” Hamasa Jahanbin, a women’s rights activist, told EFE.
To this is added the disappearance in the last month of several social activists who continuously participated in protests in favor of the educational and labor rights of women and against some rules of the almighty Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Freedom of expression
Despite the promises ofe support for the Afghan media by the Taliban, the media have seen their rights and freedoms curtailed in Afghanistan.
“Until now, the Islamic Emirate has not allowed the media to be free as required, and with the arrest of journalists, media workers are under more pressure,” Mir Ali Akbar, a member of the board of directors of the Afghan Federation of Media and Journalists, told Efe.
A survey of mid-January by the National Union of Journalists of Afghanistan (ANJU) denounced that 95% of the journalists surveyed in the 34 provinces of the Asian country claimed to suffer from a lack of freedom under the Taliban regime.