Civil war looms over Afghanistan after Taliban splits

Washington, Sep 12: Two years after the US forces abruptly left Kabul, Afghanistan is headed towards a civil war, the Taliban is now riddled with factionalism, and the country is fast becoming a safe haven for foreign terrorists, a former Afghan commander has said.
“I believe that the situation in Afghanistan is very critical and dangerous and it’s going in a dangerous direction, which could be a civil war again, or which could be a split to Afghanistan because you see that in last two years Afghanistan has been controlled by the terrorists and it has fallen into terrorist hands,” Lt. Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, who was chief of staff for the army at the time the capital city of Kabul fell to Taliban in August 2021, said.
Alizai currently lives in the US and has recently launched an initiative to unite Afghans outside the country.
Expressing his deep dissatisfaction over the current situation in Afghanistan, the former Afghan commander blames the Biden administration for abruptly leaving Afghanistan and its people at the mercy of the Taliban.
The number of terrorist organisations in Afghanistan has expanded during the Taliban regime, he said.
Even the African terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab have established a foothold in Afghanistan and they have started training its militants, he alleged. (PTI)