The peculiar case of Taliban

Dr. Jassim Taqui

DG Al-Bab Institute for Strategic Studies

Islamabad, July 23, 2021: Unheard of. How can the Taliban(T) aquire95 percent of the Afghan lands in just 7 days? Nobody would ever believe its story, Yet, most military observers confirm that T had concurred crossing corridors with Iran, Pakistan, Russia, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, and Turkmenistan. Ostensibly, T is composed of supermen. Or, T has some supernatural power or Some unseen forces fought along with the fighters of T.

Those unseen fighters made the superpower of the region look mediocre.

However, my scientific background rejects all those theories. Since there are slight elements of truth in those theories, I find myself taking refuge in the Bohr Postulates that served as the foundation stones of Quantum physics.

Postulate 1: Pakistan helped T due to their known affinity. My mind rejected this postulate since the scale of support and logistics are beyond Pakistan.

Postulate 2: India helped with money and volunteers. I dismissed this postulate since India is a staunch enemy of T.

Postulate 3: Russia helped to neutralize T in CARs. This could be slightly feasible but I reject it since it contrasts with the style of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Postulate 4. Iran helped T. I quickly dismissed this postulate since T had committed the worst ever massacres against the Shiites in Mazar Sharif. T continues with the notion that “Shiites are Kafir.” Thus, Iran would be the last one to help T in this mission.

Postulate 5. The US helped T. This could be slightly possible. However, T is not credible. Nobody in the international community wants to make a transaction with it. Even Qatar would change its mind when discovers the atrocities of T.

Postulate 6: Trump administration made a secret deal with T. The deal was controversial. It made US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis resign. This could be the closest to reality. The deal included a deliberate mechanism for the military expansion of T in Afghanistan. T waited until the withdrawal of the US troops from Bagram base to initiate the secret deal. Once, we know the details of the secret deal, one might find an ingenious plan that was done by the supercomputers of  A.L (Artificial Intelligence.)