Afghan Problem Lies in Jirga

Reconciliation is an established way and tradition in the collective Islamic and Afghan life. In the whole Afghan history, whenever differences appeared between different tribes, the heads of tribes and elders, who were honored by people due to their services, got together; called Jirga and endeavored to find solutions to the problems.

New Communist System

The supporters of the new communist system after the Soviet attack on Afghanistan, and similarly the leaders of Pakistani jihadist organizations dishonored this Islamic and Pashtuns-based sacred tradition of our collective life. Leader having roots in common people were either martyred or forced to migrate.
As a result of this cruelty, the foundation of Jirga was weakened in the country. People lost trust in the laws made by the government. Trust deficit and insecurity engendered among people. Government officials were unable to solve people's problems and maintain peace by enforcing laws.

Basic Human Rights

Our people have been burning in the flames of fire for the last 30 long years. The whole world can see with wide open eyes that the miseries of Afghan people have increased manifold and innocent Afghans have been sacrificed contrary to their basic human rights.
The first hard time for Afghanistan was the Soviet aggression in 1979 which was the culmination of all those communist interventions against the countries around the world. The Russians and their supporters tried to introduce a new communism-based system and structure against the Islamic and Afghan culture of Afghanistan.
They wanted to shape a new human being and a new Afghan who would work for the communists. Not only the plans and conspiracies of the communists failed in Afghanistan due to the sacrifices of Afghan Muslim mujahidin but the whole communist system and its political structure and sovereignty inside Russia was shattered into pieces by the sacred blood of the Afghan Muslim mujahidin.

Changing Afghan and Pashtun Culture

When jihad in Afghanistan got victory, Pakistan brought into the political field of Afghanistan those jihadist organizations which had been organized by Pakistan for achieving its political and strategic goals. The heads of these jihadist organizations, who were trapped and who had been sold out, were incited to be move ahead in order to be stake holders in Afghanistan and establish such government that may entertain the political and strategic interests of Pakistan. Pakistan wanted to change Afghan and Pashtun culture into Punjabi and Pakistani culture and tradition.
In fact, the goal of the Pakistani groups was to make Afghanistan a pet state and find a solution to Kashmir issue with the blood of the Afghans. Pakistan-tailored groups could neither establish peace, reconciliation and security in Afghanistan nor could they present a national leader before the Afghans. Thus differences appeared among these groups on the basis of share in the government.

Supporting Afghan Jihad

Right from the day of its inception, Pakistan has never wanted that a sovereign government having mandate of the oppressed Afghans be established in Afghanistan. Pashtuns living on eastern part of the false, illegal and the so-called Durand Line, do not accept the Pakistani system and they build their lives according to their Pashtun standards and wishes. They solve their problems by Jirga instead of bowing their heads before the Pakistani authorities.
On the one hand, Pakistan wants to beat Pashtuns with the might of the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops, and wants to break the nation wide resistance, while on the other hand, it sends its troops to its tribal areas, kills the tribal elders, religious clerics, and in return gets money, weapons and sophisticated technology from the US. Pakistani people detest this twofold policy of the rulers which is why they express their anger for the government by supporting the Afghan jihad openly and secretly.

Pashtuns Code of Conduct

The Americans attacked Afghanistan for taking revenge for the 9/11 attacks. It empowered the gunmen and warlords against the will of Afghan people. They tried to finish terrorism, establish democracy, and work for reconstruction with the support of these warlords. Just like the Russians, they appointed those Afghans on key posts in Afghanistan who had grown up in the US, who could not talk in their own national languages, and who were unaware of the Afghan culture and code of conduct.
The Americans expected them to spread in and impose American culture on the Afghan people. They also tried that the new human being and the new Afghan should be in accordance with the American culture and standard. They failed to achieve their targets because they were unable to understand the problems of the Afghan people. They could not make a way into their hearts and minds. Reaching these goals and achieving these targets can only be possible through the Afghan Jirga. Troops surge and sophisticated weapons can only broadens the Afghan problems and it increases the uprising and national resistance. No matter how much the Afghan casualties increase and the blood of innocent Muslims is shed, the extent of enmity and rivalry increases and the sentiments of revenge strengthen to the same extent, just in accordance with the Pashtuns Code of Conduct. If the Americans call for reconciliation with complete sincerity, sit with the Afghan elders whose hands are not stained with blood of anyone and who did not dishonor anyone, and make a way towards the fighters, and get ready to solve problems through Jirga and beg pardon, only then it is possible that the war my be stopped and a way to reconciliation may be found out.