The new face of violence in Afghanistan seems to be the suicide bombers who have become a gruesome reality in the region which has constantly battled long for stability and levelling. One of the recent features that the desperate government and the military have introduced is the strategy of raids which they assume would enable them to curb and monitor terrorist activities in the region.

Taliban, which has its dominant roots in the region has started to use and employ suicide bombers as a means of fighting and asserting their influence just as the Iraqi violence has surged in Iraq. Gereshk and Helmand are the two main provinces in Afghanistan which have been the hub of the terrorist activities especially of suicide bombings. These suicide attacks have increased in the present and is being the newest feature if the marked violence in the regions.

As more and more instability is being credited to Afghanistan, the human factor has taken on as the means to an end and also as the most dangerous of all the violence caused as more and more young men and women are falling prey to the brainwashing of the militants and terrorists for the sole purpose of becoming suicide bombers.

What the government seeks to initiate is a strategy which is full of doubts and fissures as they themselves cannot apply these strategies to the core. These raid operations seem to limited as a Major Crispin d’Apice of the Coldstream Guards says:

We cannot frankly justify going into peoples’ homes in a situation like this, kicking down doors, all guns blazing. That would be simply counter-productive.

Although in the pretext of these raids, men have been detained and the weapons seized, ammunitions found and other activities have been uncovered, there are limitations to it as residents and people living in these areas are puzzled and stupefied because of these sudden and incongruous military operations. But it is about time we see how Afghanistan is going to unleash the terrorists who are living in the shelter of protection of the civilians including those who are not a part of the terrorist activities.

Source: Independant

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