A former general in the Afghanistan army has said that he along with ex-soldiers and politicians are preparing to launch a new war against Taliban. BBC quoted Lt Gen Sami Sadat, who commanded Afghan government forces in the southern province of Helmand during Taliban’s offensive, as saying that eight months of Taliban rule has convinced many Afghans that military action is the only way forward. He said that the war could begin next month after Eid, when he plans to return to Afghanistan. The former general said that he and others would “do anything and everything in our powers to make sure Afghanistan is freed from the Taliban and a democratic system is re-established. “Until we get our freedom. Until we get our free will.
We will continue to fight”. BBC quoted the general as emphasizing how the Taliban had been reintroducing increasingly harsh rule. Including severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls. And it was time to stop their authoritarian order and start a new chapter. He said. “What we see in Afghanistan in eight months of Taliban rule has been nothing. But more religious restrictions, misquotation, misinterpretation and misuse. Of the scripts from the Holy Koran for political purposes”. He said that Taliban was given 12 months to see if they would change. But “unfortunately, every day you wake up the Taliban have had something new to do. Torturing people, killing, disappearances, food shortages, child malnutrition.” “We are not against the Taliban,” he said, adding that Afghanistan should be a country where “everyone fits in, not a country only for Taliban.”
