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‘We Won’t Give Up on Values That We Fighting For’: NSA Mohib
The National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib has said that the Afghan military forces are fighting for a purpose and that it is to protect the values that they have gained with the support of the international community.
Speaking at a Town Hall meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Mohib said that Afghanistan is not country of 2002 and its neighbors should think and fix what went wrong in 2002.
He said: “Afghanistan has come a long way. That’s completely a different country tangibly and intangibly and we are heading to our prosperous future and we are now able to bring the region together.”
The other participants of the Town Hall meeting were Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Uzbekistan’s Foreign Affair Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
In his speech, NSA Mohib also paid tribute to the Afghan soldiers who have made sacrifices to defend their country’s values and territorial integrity.
“My soldiers do not fight for $300 salary.” He said. “They are fighting for a purpose. They fight to defend our values with the support of our partners and millions of Afghans around the country and Taliban have lost the purpose and what they’re fighting for.”
“My soldiers make sacrifices and media call it causality; they are not causality, those are sacrifices we make on behalf of our country for our freedom, sovereignty and values we stand for and we will continue that as long as Afghanistan exist and a single Afghan exists in the country,” Mohib added.
He also expressed his sympathies with India over the Pulwama attack that left at least 40 Indian security personnel killed.
Referring to the ongoing peace efforts, Mohib assured that peace will come to Afghanistan, but he said it requires all of the stakeholders to involve substantively in the process.
“Peace is coming to Afghanistan. We will bring peace. it is the ultimate desire and wish of the major of the Afghan people. It is not going to be a simple process of meeting and facilitation. It requires all of us to involve and getting engaged substantively to ensure that everybody’s interests in the region who are involved in this conflict are taken care of but also it is a peace that’s acceptable to Afghan people,” he said.
The official stressed that under the last five years, the Afghan security forces made 45,000 sacrifices to protect the values that they are fighting far.
“I come back to the purpose point, there is a purpose that the Afghans are fighting for, it is our freedom, our values, and sovereignty and we will not give up on that,” Mohib said.
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
Ten people have been killed and six others injured by floods in Helmand province in the past week, local officials said on Friday.
According to officials, seven of those were members of the same family, and they were killed in Kajaki district last night.
“Most of the people moved from vulnerable areas to high lands and mountains, and thanks Allah the number of casualties is low,” Sher Mohammad Vahdat, the head of information of the Directorate of Information and Culture in Helmand, said adding rescue teams and security forces have been dispatched to help people.
It is said that the telecommunication system has also been disrupted due to the effect of floods in Kajaki district. Floods have also destroyed thousands of acres of agricultural land.
Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, met with the Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in New Delhi and discussed issues related to Afghanistan, it was announced on Thursday.
During the meeting, Otunbayeva thanked India for “its critical humanitarian support and longstanding friendship for the Afghan people” and discussed the importance of regional and international cooperation to address prevailing challenges in Afghanistan, UNAMA said on X.
Jaishankar also said on X that the sides exchanged views on the current situation in Afghanistan.
“Underlined that India has provided wheat, medicines, pesticides and school supplies. Appreciate the role of UN agencies as partners in these endeavors,” he said.
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