The very first step towards fighting the problem of Warlords in Afghanistan.

 A friend posed a question about how to fight the problem of warlords in Afghanistan and to remove them from key and leading positions in Government; fill their gap with young leaders belonging to the new generation.

          Of course the new generation must try to merge with today's leadership trends and try to dissociate and get rid of warlords especially those holding  vital positions in governmental and non-governmental bodies. But before you fight your enemies you need to know them very well. Unfortunately our people have witnessed war and destruction for decades and everybody wants to know the reasons and the warlords behind these wars. We all know after the defeat of Taliban and the establishment of a new government in Afghanistan there hasn't been found any such committee or court to subtly scrutinize and create a precise and accurate definition for the term WARLORD. A person is recognized as a warlord in north but he is recognized as a hero in the south and vice versa.

          Also the legitimacy and the causes of the recent wars are addressed differently in different regions and among different religious/ethnic groups. So according to me, if we want to solve the problem of warlords, the very first step would be to establish an impartial organization who would perform two main functions:

1) Provide a comprehensive description of the nature of wars and further weigh their legitimacy, assess their causes and categorize them under different names such as civil war, Jihad, wars fought against terrorism and invaders etc.

2) State a fine definition of "warlord" so to come up with the identity crises and accordingly recognize and put to trial those involved in the wars.

Have you got any better ideas ???

                                                                                Abdul Basit Radmanesh 

 Saturday, 19 April 2014
Bhopal-India