By Afshain Afzal

As Taliban stood aside honouring the pace agreement, local Pashtuns and other communities continued making advances. Interestingly, US and allies have armed and funded locals who remained loyal to the occupying forces since last two decades but where are they? Are they the same who are holding control of building s and premises? However, they claim to be on the side of Taliban and no one has either accepted their claim nor contradicted it.

Meanwhile, Washington has issued a tough warning of “strong, decisive response” if their presence is challenged in Afghanistan. Interestingly, no one is there at the military bases or elsewhere, except Embassy lower staff at Kabul. There were some helicopters at low flight near Kabul but there were no further inputs. The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned commonwealth nations, “Nobody should bilaterally recognise the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan”.

Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe remained center for activities for Afghanistan, where US and NATO presence was reported. There were also reports of Indian personnel wearing collation uniform. Increased air and personnel movement is being witnessed from the last three days at Indian military air base located near the town of Farkhor in Tajikistan and Ayni Airbase. Some 1800 foreign troops joined the forces at the military base. Late night air-maintenance and serviceability reports were circulated of Su-25 fighter jets, Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters.

New Delhi has been asked to place its troops at Afghan soil, which may attract strong reaction from thousands of Afghan refugees living in India since decades. There were reports that Indian aircrafts had flown over Pakistan airspace two days back could not be confirmed. However, Washington has been persuading Islamabad to cooperate to jointly handle Afghan situation.

In the Afghan capital Kabul one Taliban leader said. “we do not know who is doing that we are just watching implementations of peace talks”. Reports of some of important Afghan leaders fleeing to Tajikistan and UAE have bee confirmed. One Afghan pro-Pashtun leader said we are expecting an ugly U-turn by the end of this month. He, however, did not revealed any further.

There are expectations of target attacks and high altitude droppings but noting could be confirmed at present. The western nations and India are trying level best not to allow Taliban to form the government. Indian Ministry of External Affairs and foreign collaborators have planned neither to allow Taliban to form the government nor give a chance to participate in democratic process. As most of the Afghan refugees have already left Afghanistan, the Afghan situation would be clear by the end of this month.