Afghanistan during Taliban 2.0 Heading Towards Devastation

Abstract

Afghanistan is passing through a crucial stage of history since the Taliban 2.0 have assumed the reign of power in August 2021 through Doha accord with America and its allies by toppling a national government led by President Ashraf Ghani. The one-year and four mouths of the Conservative Taliban regime has played havoc with the economy, health, education, and human rights situation in the country. While at the same time, the country is facing horrific international isolation where no country in the world has formally recognized the government. After the 9/11 attack, the Taliban 1.0 government was toppled national governments were formulated two times each by Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani. It has been almost 1 year and 4 months since the Taliban have retaken the country after two decades in August 2021. Since then the state has been witnessing gigantic changes in the economic, political, diplomatic, human rights, education, and health sectors. Although the situation concerning these spheres was not good prior to the Taliban’s regime on the other side, it was far better than today’s Afghanistan. Although much has been written on the conditions of social, economic, political, education, health, and basic human rights during the Taliban rule but the ongoing research will focus on a comparative analysis of indicators before the Taliban regime and the current Taliban regime itself and their incompetency and will prove that the country is witnessing a great leap backward during the current Taliban regime. In the end, the research will concentrate on the best possible policy options for the Taliban to be taken to steer the country out of these whirlpools.