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Britain is failing in Afghanistan, says Warlord Britain - and Prince Harry - are failing in Afghanistan, says warlord One of Afghanistan's most feared and wanted warlords has warned that the country could collapse into a murderous civil war after the withdrawal of Nato troops next year.
Hekmatyar, a veteran of that bloody war, warned: "Today the scenario of Afghanistan is exactly like that of one year before the withdrawal of Soviet Union. The Americans and their allies are tired of fighting.
"The fact is that the government has failed. The authorities have lost heir credibility completely. They have fallen victims to severe internal disputes and seem hopeless and worried.
strategy of blocking girls' education, Hekmatyar was outraged: 'We are against the blowing up of schools and other institutions not only in Afghanistan and Pakistan but elsewhere in the world. I don't think that a devoted majahid They can neither bear the "The foreign forces have failed could be involved in such casualties nor the expenses of and the situation is worsening things.' In the bleakest assessment yet this war any more. They are by the day. We might face a Hekmatyar denied any links of Afghanistan's future, Gulleft with no other Yet it cannot dreadful situation after 2014 with the Pakistan Taliban, and buddin Hekmatyar called for be ignored since it comes from which no one could have antici- accused foreign intelligence a "peaceful transition of the one of just a handful of Afghan pated." agencies of being involved in government" to democracy. warlords. But this dire assessment was attacks on schools and other But, in a wide-ranging interaccompanied by a warm atrocities. view arranged with he feared a When asked what he believes language about the democratic descent into chaos and anarchy will follow when combat troops future of Afghanistan. 'It seems that some British similar to that which followed pull out in 2014 his answer was authorities still dream about the withdrawal of the Russians both terrifying and When asked whether he supthe times of the eighteenth and in the 1980s. encouraging: ported the Pakistan Taliban nineteenth century and they
want their ambassador to be treated like a viceroy and their prince to go out in uniform to hunt for human beings and play the satanic role that they used to play in the past.' But Britain's historic role in creating such conflicts is now finished, adds Hekmatyar: 'The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have proved that Britain has to go and take part instead in proxy wars – and this is what she cannot afford even for a short space of time.
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