Afghanistan: Backgroung and U.S. policy in brief (By Pooja & Keshvam Punj)

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President Biden's April 2021 declaration of his goal to completely pull-out U.S. powers by September 11, 2021, drew both applause and analysis across sectarian lines from certain Members of Congress who for quite a long time had discussed the overall expenses and advantages of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Some invited the declaration, refering to what they describe as U.S. counterterrorism victories or a need to reprioritize U.S. worldwide interests.[1] Other Members encouraged President Biden to reexamine for a circumstances-based approach.[2]

The Taliban's takeover pulled in extraordinary legislative and public consideration. Numerous Members described the August 2021 withdrawal as tumultuous and harming to U.S. interest and worldwide standing; a few said they upheld the expulsion of U.S. troops yet not the manner by which it was conveyed out.[3] In the months since the Taliban entered Kabul, U.S. public consideration seems to have diminished, however Afghanistan stays the subject of critical legislative interest as some Individuals look to represent the clear disappointment of U.S. endeavors and wrestle with the truth of the Taliban's recharged rule.

No less than six legislative panels held hearings on Afghanistan in the weeks after the Taliban's takeover.[4] Some of these hearings zeroed in on contemporaneous U.S. strategy activities, while others looked to inspect the twenty years of U.S. strategy choices that went before the Taliban's takeover. The most exhaustive work to research U.S. endeavors in Afghanistan is Congress' foundation of the Afghanistan War Commission (Section 1094 of the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, P.L. 117-81). The Commission's 16 individuals are to be appointed by the seats and positioning individuals from the Senate and House equipped administrations, international concerns, and insight panels, as well as by House and Senate larger part and minority pioneers, in the span of 60 days of sanctioning. They are accused of inspecting "the key vital, conciliatory, and activity choices that relate to the conflict in Afghanistan" and creating "a progression of illustrations learned and proposals for the way forward" in a last report to be given in three years or less.

Meanwhile, a few Members express a plan to stay zeroed in on improvements in Afghanistan. A part of these Members contends that a U.S. inability to stay occupied with Afghanistan might prompt a more extensive cultural breakdown and common conflict much the same as the climate in which Al Qaeda flourished and arranged the September 11, 2001, assaults after the 1989 Soviet withdrawal.[5]

How Afghanistan squeezes into more extensive U.S. system is one issue on which Members could connect with, particularly given contending financial needs considering the COVID-19 pandemic as well as contending U.S. strategy priorities.[6] The Biden Administration at first outlined and has since shielded the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as assisting with making the United States more ready to go up against other, and apparently more decisively significant, challenges, for example, those presented by Russia and China.[7]

Going ahead, U.S. strategy, including legislative activity, will be affected and logical obliged by various elements, including:

• a deficiency of data about elements in Afghanistan, given the absence of U.S. ambassadors and other on the ground eyewitnesses and Taliban-forced impediments on writers; and

• the authentic tradition of U.S. struggle with the Taliban, which might make collaboration with the gathering, even to progress U.S. strategy needs, politically troublesome.

Changes in elements in Afghanistan, like further decay of the compassionate circumstance or activities by the Taliban (counting the arranged March 2022 returning of state funded training for Afghan young ladies), could provoke a few Members to start or call for new U.S. strategy measures. Notwithstanding immediate legislative activity (counting appropriating, approving, or restricting financing for different purposes), legislative choices for administering the Administration's way to deal with Afghanistan incorporate went ahead with hearings, letters to presidential branch authorities, public explanations, revealing prerequisites, mentioning evaluations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and regulation relating to sanctions strategy or different issues. The Administration's February 2022 declaration on the demeanor of U.S.- based Afghan national bank resources might be one approach region for legislative commitment and oversight.

Past the difficulties of how to form U.S. strategy toward the new circumstance in Afghanistan, Members might look to well-spoken and shape what U.S. aims in Afghanistan ought to be. Numerous Members express an interest in limiting helpful misery, having provincially based psychological militant gatherings, and going ahead with help for Afghan ladies and young ladies. Simultaneously, numerous Members (with the obvious help of the Biden Administration) clearly try to try not to any activities, incorporate the arrangement of advancement help, which could have the impact of helping the Taliban or advancing the gathering's situation in power.

A part of these needs might come into pressure: giving philanthropic guide might be adequate to fight off mass setbacks yet is not going to support the Afghan economy. Monetary help could work on the Afghan economy, improving the philanthropic circumstance, however, goes with the gamble of redirection of an asset to the Taliban. Going ahead, Members might gauge the monetary and social expenses of giving philanthropic help endlessly the political and moral expenses of supporting (or if nothing else forgoing subverting) the Taliban's standard.

[1] Representative Andy Kim, “Congressman Kim Statement on Announcement of U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” April 13, 2021; Senator Ed Markey (@SenMarkey), Twitter, April 13, 2021, 1:29PM.

[2] Senator Jim Inhofe (@JimInhofe), Twitter, April 13, 2021, 1:26PM.

[3] Barbara Sprunt, “There’s a bipartisan backlash to how Biden handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” NPR, August 17, 2021.

[5] Letter available at https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-crow-malinowski-meijer-press- president-biden-release.

[6] See, for example, CRS Report R43838, Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress, by Ronald O'Rourke.

[7] See for example “Remarks by President Biden on the Way Forward in Afghanistan,” White House, April 14, 2021; “Remarks by President Biden on the End of the War in Afghanistan,” White House, August 31, 2021; Department Press Briefing – January 24, 2022, U.S. Department of State.

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Afghanistan: Backgroung and U.S. policy in brief (By Pooja & Keshvam Punj)

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Title: Afghanistan: Backgroung and U.S. policy in brief

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[1] Jonathan Schroden, “Afghanistan’s Security Forces Versus the Taliban: A Net Assessment,” CTC Sentinel, January 2021.

[1] Susannah George, “Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions,” Washington Post, August 15, 2021; David Zucchino, “Collapse and Conquest: The Taliban Strategy That Seized Afghanistan,” New York Times, August 18, 2021.

[1] Fazelminallah Qazizai, “The Mysterious Public Appearances of the Taliban’s Supreme Leader,” Newlines, December 20, 2021; “Haibatullah Akhundzada: Shadowy Taliban supreme leader whose son was suicide bomber,” Reuters, September 7, 2021.

[1] Martine van Bijlert, “The Focus of the Taliban’s New Government: Internal cohesion, external dominance,” Afghanistan Analysts Network, September 12, 2021.

[1] Stephanie Findlay, “Haqqani network’s clever game culminates with Afghan government roles,” Financial Times, September 10, 2021.

[1] “Who Will Run the Taliban Government?” op. cit.

[1] Zia ur-Rehman and Emily Schmall, “The Taliban have staffing issues. They are looking for help in Pakistan,” New York Times, January 13, 2022.

[1] Khudai Noor Nasar, “Afghanistan: Taliban leaders in bust-up at presidential palace, sources say,” BBC, September 15, 2021; Ali Latifi, “How deep are divisions among the Taliban?” Al Jazeera, September 23, 2021.

[1] Andrew Watkins, “An Assessment of Taliban Rule at Three Months,” CTC Sentinel, November 2021.

[1] Loveday Morris and Ruby Mellen, “Portraits of fear and loss,” Washington Post, January 12, 2022.

[1] Trevor Filseth, “After Renegade Province’s Fall, Panjshir Resistance Leaders Surface in Tajikistan,” National Interest, September 23, 2021; Lachlan Markey, “Taliban resistance ramps up U.S. lobbying efforts,” Axios, October 27, 2021.

[1] Samya Kullab, “Islamic State attacks test Taliban’s control in Afghanistan,” Christian Science Monitor, October 13, 2021; Amira Jadoon and Andrew Mines, “The Taliban can’t take on the Islamic State alone,” War on the Rocks, October 14, 2021

[1] Susannah George and Ezzatullah Mehrdad, “Space for dissent opened in Afghanistan after the Taliban was ousted 20 years ago. Now the militants are trying to slam it shut,” Washington Post, September 12, 2021; “Thousands protest against Taliban in Kandahar over evictions,” Reuters, September 14, 2021.

[1] “Afghan women call for rights, protest alleged Taliban killings,” Al Jazeera, December 28, 2021

[1] Jeff Seldin, “US Calls Death of al-Qaida Official a Major Setback for Terror Group,” Voice of America, October 26, 2020.

[1] Michael Balsamo, et al., “Concerns over US Terror Threat Rising as Taliban hold Grows,” Associated Press, August 15, 2021.

[1] Robert Burns and Lolita Baldor, “US commander: Al-Qaida numbers in Afghanistan up ‘slightly,’” Associated Press, December 10, 2021.

[1] Kathy Gannon, “Taliban say they won’t work with US to contain Islamic State,” Associated Press, October 9, 2021.

[1] See, for example, Remarks by President Biden on the Way Forward in Afghanistan, White House, April 14, 2021.

[1] “Transcript of Taliban’s first news conference in Kabul,” Al Jazeera, August 17, 2021. Sharia refers broadly to concepts and principles of Islamic religious jurisprudence that vary in their interpretation under different schools of practice. For more, see Matthew Nelson, “The Taliban’s (Islamic) Isolation,” Chatham House, October 21, 2020.

[1] John R. Allen and Vanda Felbab-Brown, “The fate of women’s rights in Afghanistan,” Brookings Institution, September 2020

[1] Margherita Stancati, “After Taliban Return, Afghan Women Face Old Pressures from Fathers, Brothers,” New York Times, December 15, 2021.

[1] Rachel Pannett, “Who leads Afghanistan’s new government? Here is what we know about the Taliban’s top officials,” Washington Post, September 8, 2021.

[1] Patricia Grossman, “Afghan women’s rights activists forcibly disappeared,” Human Rights Watch, January 24, 2022; Sudarsan Raghavan, “Faced with disappearances, beatings and intimidation, Afghanistan’s women’s rights activists go quiet on the streets,” Washington Post, February 8, 2022.

[1] David Zucchino and Fatima Faizi, “They Are Thriving After Years of Persecution but Fear a Taliban Deal,” New York Times, March 27, 2019.

[1] Aftab Khan, “PIA prepared to run regular flights to Kabul: CEO,” Express Tribune, November 13, 2021

[1] Courntey Kube et al., “First flight of American evacuees in months leaves Kabul airport for Qatar,” NBC News, January 27, 2022.

[1] See CRS In Focus IF12039, Afghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis, Economic Collapse, and U.S. Sanctions.

[1] “Afghanistan Food Security Update,” World Food Program, December 8, 2021.

[1] “Half of Afghanistan’s children under five expected to suffer from acute malnutrition as hunger takes root for millions,” UNICEF Afghanistan, October 5, 2021.

[1] Jonathan Landay, “U.N. chief: Liquidity needed to stem Afghanistan economic, humanitarian crises,” Reuters, October 11, 2021; U.S. Department of State, “Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a Press Availability,” December 21, 2021.

[1] For more, see CRS In Focus IF10604, Terrorist Groups in Afghanistan, by Clayton Thomas.

[1] White House, Remarks by President Trump on the Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia, August 21, 2017. Some Pakistani officials disputed that charge and noted the Taliban’s increased territorial control within Afghanistan itself. Author interviews with Pakistani military officials, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, February 21, 2018.

[1] “Pakistani Taliban ends ceasefire, future of peace talks uncertain,” Al Jazeera, December 10, 2021; Abdul Sayed, “The Evolution and Future of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 21, 2021

[1] Pakistan, the United Nations, and others recognize the 1893 Durand Line as an international boundary, but successive Afghan governments, including the Taliban, have not. See Vinay Kaura, “The Durand Line: A British Legacy Plaguing Afghan-Pakistani Relations,” Middle East Institute, June 27, 2017.

[1] Bruce Pannier, “For the Turkmen and Uzbek leaders, a meeting of minds on Afghanistan,” RFE/RL, October 9, 2021; Orkhan Jalilov, “Turkmen, Afghan Officials Discuss Energy and Transport Projects,” Caspian News, January 18, 2022.

[1] Matthew Funaiole and Brian Hart, “Afghanistan Is No Treasure Trove for China,” Foreign Policy, September 28, 2021.

[1] Senator Jim Inhofe (@JimInhofe), Twitter, April 13, 2021, 1:26PM.

[1] Barbara Sprunt, “There’s a bipartisan backlash to how Biden handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” NPR, August 17, 2021.

[1] Letter available at https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-crow-malinowski-meijer-press- president-biden-release.

[1] See, for example, CRS Report R43838, Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress, by Ronald O'Rourke.

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