Hamid Karzai - A Man facing immense Challenges

Hamid Karzai - A Man facing immense Challenges

 
The Afghanistan situation is challenging but not impossible to resolve if we know the laws of cultural engineering and keep in view the historic perspective of Afghanistan. In case of Pashtuns,it is the time in history where they need to change their direction to national goals and targets in consonance with the laws of history and strive for freedom in Pakistan instead of becoming a cannon fodder for the imperialist designs of Arabs, Punjabis or any other alien force.

In case of Afghanistan one has to know the gravity of situation in which Hamid Karzai is leading the country.

Hamid Karzai is taking Afghanistan through these difficult times when Afghanistan is going through a transitional phase of trying to rehabilitate from the devastation of three decades of internal and external war. It is a very herculean and uphill task.

It should be noted that Afghanistan is a country which is inhabited by a nation which is an amalgam of the progressive Non Pashto speakers and the conservative Pashtuns, in a tribal culture but with a glorious history, and which has been a battle ground for centuries due to its geo strategic position in the past. It is one of the toughest terrain for urbanisation and mechanisation, which has been constantly under threat by its neighbours due to their imperialist designs and historic enmity with Afghans.

Hamid Karzai is a son of the soil who has been using US might to supervise the rehabilitation of the devastated land. He has played an instrumental role in converging the human and capital resources of the world not only to secure Afghanistan but also to rebuild it.

He has used the differences of the ethnic groups to the advantage of the country proving himself to be a person which statesmanship skills and an expert is statecraft.

The scattered and disillusioned Afghans with immense potential to become a glorified nation need a person who feels at home with national, local as well as international community due to his profile, who knows the business strategies devised by the movers and shakers of Halliburton on one side and the diplomatic skills to convert disadvantage to the advantage of Afghanistan, on the other.

He is the person who is well versed in the Pashto and Dari in addition to English which gives him an edge. He has worked in the higher echelons of power by the virtue of belonging to the aristocracy of the Afghans and even has been closely associated with those who were involved in the Afghan and post Afghan war.

He has taken a stand against the collateral damage as well as the opinionated US lobby who were unwilling to accept the results of the 2009 presidential election due to their political reservations. He had the courage to invite Taliban to talks despite knowing their mentors.

The foreign policy which has been pursued in his tenure has been successful in convincing the world community about the seriousness of the unrest in the Afghans due to the infiltration of Arabs, Persian, Ex-communist states , Punjabis and the ISI backed Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Afghans and Pakhtuns should appreciate a mature political approach as this is a matter of life and death for them and their motherland. Criticising unnecessarily, the Afghan struggle for the restoration of their past glory and becoming a progressive nation in the 21st century after living in a fool's paradise and Idealistic fantasy for decades, is not going to help Pakhtun and Afghans.They will have to adopt a realistic strategy.

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousMay 31, 2010

    Hmm... I'm not sure I should, but I will...

    It's not that I disagree with your view, it's just that I feel like there's something missing in between the ideas. Not sure if it's because I'd need to read the entire website to understand your points but, in any case, I'm talking for what I've read in this one post.

    It's not very easy to find someone who'll talk openly in defense (in the lack of a better expression) of Karzai like you did. The ones I've seen doing so are immediatelly pointed as some sort traitors. Corruption, innability or even not much of a willingness in fighting the drug lords, and so on, are just the beginning of the list of critics... so, your words came to me as a surprise. Mainly because, despite not being Karzai easily accepted even by Pashtuns, you still point him as some sort of (and again, in the lack of a better expression by the time being) “savior” to Afghanistan at the moment.

    Still, I finished the reading with more questions than proper answers . It doesn’t seem to me like Karzai is the actual man to unify the Afghan nation. Is he? Doesn’t seem to me like even Pashtuns take him easy, let alone the other tribals. I didn’t get you when you say that “Afghanistan is a country inhabited by a nation”, it’s a personal understanding that, if Afghanistan wants to actually become a nation (like, the real deal), it’ll have to be stripped from the idea of Pashtuns as a nation (sorry, but this is a matter to such a long conversation) and start to function as an unity. Pashtuns, Hazaras, Aimaks, Tajiks... as long as they identify themselves primarily like that, Afghanistan will have a problem to remain one. Karzai is the president not only to Pashtuns, but to each and every one of the tribes in the country. And the nation he has to build cannot be Pashtun. Else, it won’t be build in that place. I happily read your last post, in which you rehearsal a new approach of how to build some sort of unity through means other than wars. Unless the means to unification change, there won’t be many Afghans in the end to tell the story.

    Now, I more than agree with you when you say that Pashtuns and Afghans should appreciate a mature political approach. I’m just not sure, for what I’ve been watching in the last years, that many Afghans, even the more politically engaged ones, can understand the kind of struggle they’re going for, or what actual results they’re up to get. In fact, I’m not sure they’re even aware of the audience they’re talking to, or the actual goasl they’re persecuting.

    Anyway, it was really good to read your post to get in touch with a whole other point of view for a change.

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