RASC News Agency: Hamid Karzai, the former President of Afghanistan, who, during his tenure, played a pivotal role in the resurgence of the Taliban by leveraging American resources to equip, strengthen, and revitalize this militant group, now finds himself in a nation where these so-called “discontented brothers” have turned Afghanistan into a graveyard for its citizens. Karzai now calls on the Taliban to immediately reopen the doors of schools and universities to women and girls. He emphasizes that Afghanistan’s liberation from foreign dependency and the country’s progress hinge on the education of its youth, particularly Afghanistani girls.
Ironically, Karzai’s plea to his “brothers” to reopen educational institutions for girls comes after a period in his own administration when countless ghost schools existed in southern Afghanistan, and during his fourteen years of governance, not a single girl from that region graduated from school.
For the past three years, the Taliban have kept the doors of schools and universities shut to girls. The United Nations has reported that as a result of this Taliban decree, 1.4 million Afghanistani girls have been deprived of secondary and higher education. On Sunday, in a message commemorating the 105th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence under King Amanullah, Karzai stated, “Just as Afghanistan is the shared home of all Afghanistani people, I hope that every citizen of this land, with a full sense of ownership and freedom, will have the opportunity to contribute to the prosperity and advancement of our nation.”
Karzai makes these demands of his once “discontented brothers” while he himself failed to treat Afghanistan as the common home of all its people during his time in power. For the past three years, Karzai has lived in Kabul under Taliban rule, actively lobbying both within Afghanistan and internationally to legitimize the Taliban a group that epitomizes ethnic terrorism in the eyes of the world.
