Presidential Elections in Afghanistan

The second presidential election in Afghanistan was held on 20 August amid bomb explosions, raids on poling stations, bloody clashes with the occupation US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces. Could it be possible for the candidates to organize election processions, meetings, and establish contacts with the voters in the shadow of the bayonets of the collectively 300,000 police personnel and Army of the puppet Karzai administration, including 100,000 NATO forces? The general of the US occupation military had already determined the winning candidate in the elections and have planned for "positive results." Tactics of force, threats, and forgery have been used and its open proof is that the vote counting has not been done yet, but Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah have announced their success. They claimed to have secured 50 percent votes.

Abdullah Abdullah has expressed his reservation in a very humble and formal manner that the rival may not obtain even 50 percent votes. Therefore, the second phase of the elections will become inevitable in October. However, a person involved in corruption and drug trafficking from his head to toes claims on the decrees of his US masters that he has won 50 percent votes. If the results that would be officially announced two weeks later confirm his assertion, it will be clear that the results have already been determined. Therefore, claim and counterclaim have no validity except another deception.

Fake Presidential Candidates
Moreover, the statement by Zadria Barkazai, deputy chief of the so-called Election Commission of Afghanistan, discloses the claim of the fake presidential candidates that 40 to 50 percent votes were cast in the elections, whereas this ratio of casting votes was 70 percent in the presidential elections of 2004. He has refused to confirm the claims of Karzai and Abdallah saying that the Election Commission will announce the results. Therefore, both candidates should demonstrate patience and tolerance. However, what will these power-hungry persons and traitors of their homeland get?

Rigging and Interventions
A respected and reliable organization EFFA has expressed concerns over widespread rigging and interventions in the elections, while International Republican Institute, a US-based organization now occupying Afghanistan, has opined that, although the election process confirmed serious problems, yet it was reliable. However, the US organization did not explain the serious problems interfering in the election process, and in spite of those problems, the election process was transparent.

More than that, Ibrah Second (first Ibrah attacked Mecca before the birth of the holy Prophet) Obama sitting 11,000 km away welcomed this drama and expressed his determination to continue the policy of military deployment in Afghanistan.

He has showered praises on this election drama, for it is being staged according to his plans, and his favorite candidate will be declared successful. However, the elation of Obama and Gordon Brown ended when three soldiers of the US occupation forces were killed in eastern Afghanistan in the bomb explosions on the roads and subsequent shelling. Moreover, two British soldiers were also killed in Helmand Province. Therefore, Obama will receive election gift of the dead bodies of three brigands and Gordon Brown will received two. This is life, sometimes happiness, sometimes grief.

The media of this crusading Christian faction are airing the impression that large-scale attacks could not take place during the elections as expected. This was also echoed in a statement by Richard Holbrooke, US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, who is running amok between these two countries like a pawn.

The readers should understand that as the dialogues of some script are learnt and repeated for rehearsal, similarly the statements of the Ibrah Second, Obama and the US organization, International Republican Institute have also been learned and repeated, for they are professional liars.

The United States and the United Kingdom pressure and television channels give a wide-scale coverage to the election congregation of Mir Hoseyn Musavi, instead of the meeting and processions of his rival Mahmud Ahmadinezhad. Even this was not enough; forgery and journalistic dishonesty went up to its extreme when the Western media presented the greatest procession of Ahmadinezhad as Musvai's procession; the same trick was played in Afghanistan. Why does Karzai live underground, if he is so popular? How many electoral campaigns in the country has he led? Why should he conduct campaigns? The US occupation forces are doing this job for him. The people were threatened to be killed along with their women and children, if they did not participate in the elections. More than 135 incidents of violence occurred on the elections day, in which 26 soldiers and common people were killed. Four huge explosions took place in Kandahar. Rockets were fired on the residential areas, while the provincial chief Muhammad Kabir Andrabi of Gaghlan Province said that the battle has been going on since morning and the fighters have been pushed back. More than 22 fighters have been killed.The chief of the Election Commission admitted that the voting process got topsy-turvy in Kabul.

Taliban Factor
The Taliban stormed three polling stations in the western province of Herat, set a building on fire and destroyed all ballot papers. This was reported by the district governor. The Taliban were pushed back in Kandoz when they stormed a polling station. Tow suicide bombers were killed in Gardez. Gen Muhammad Zahir Azimi of the defense ministry claimed this.

What would happen after that? This is the question in the mind of everybody. Obama is not in his daydream, for it he pitted Shiite, Sunni and Kurds against one another in Iraq and established a coalition government, while remaining in the background. In other words, the United States would continue its hold on the military bases and it has full control on oil. Similarly, it will set up a remote-controlled government in Afghanistan too. However, the first point is that stability could not return to Iraq and it cannot be brought over there, too. The reason is that the United States has started disintegrating the country by dividing it among Shiite, Sunni and Kurds. Moreover, it has removed the Ba'ath Party from the scene and paved the way for the Iranian intervention. This move will intensify tension among the Arab and non-Arab (Iran).

Similarly, the United States intends to establish supremacy of the non-Pashtuns in Afghanistan by breaking their (Pashtuns') power. Therefore, it would never want to bring any Tajik or Uzbek into power. It has to place some Pashtun on the seat of the head for just show. It wants to appoint him on the post of president as a hostage besieged by Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara tribes.

However, it is confronting threats to its neo-colonial plans from Pashtun tribes living across the Durand Line. Therefore, it intends to crush the Pashtuns of Waziristan, Swat, Buner, Dir, Kurram, and Oarkzai Agencies to cope with this situation through the Pakistan Army by throwing the bait of financial support, military aid and showing the way to power corridors to the Pakistani rulers, and it has been successful in its strategy so far.