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Instructor: Christopher Henderson Date: 13 July 2012
Essay One – Argumentative
The peace and reconciliation process with Taliban started with full force at the beginning of 2011 while NATO, Afghan Government and Taliban realized that their objectives can’t be achieved with war. A decade of war-fought with Taliban is considered not in national interest of the NATO partners since the invested financial resources did not produce the required objectives and that numbers of troops being killed are increasing every year. According to a British MP (Around 130 Billion USD is spent annually in Afghanistan). Taliban are also divided into couple of groups of “extremist and moderate”; the moderate group showed signals towards negotiations for peace talks. The government of Afghanistan also created a peace-council to take part in the peace process therefore Taliban has also established a political office in Qatar. Meanwhile Unite States has also released some high profile Taliban members from Guantanamo. Although some people are against the peace talks, but the only solution to end the bloodshed and have a prosperous Afghanistan is to start negotiations …show more content…
These may lead us back to the era of “1996-2001” where girls were not allowed to go to schools, women were not allowed to work. People were punished under the desert-court-rule and there was no proper justice system available to people. Therefore the government has promised that Taliban joining and reconciling will accept Afghan constitution and signed international treaties. This is also a precondition for peace talks. So far the Taliban who has joined the Afghan government has accepted the Afghan