For number of years now India is disturbed by incidents of extremists and terrorists from Afghan territory entering and operating in the disputed Kashmir region. Afghanistan was also used as a base by the hijackers of Indian Airlines plane during the infamous Christmas 1999 saga. There is an alarming increase in the cultivation, production and trafficking of drugs in and from Afghanistan. Also humanitarian and human rights situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating from bad to worst. There was a recent killing of seven demining workers working under UN auspices.
Women have no rights to speak of under so called Islamic law.
There is no safety and security for civilian population in the areas of conflict. Afghanistan needs rule of law and Taliban are not going to provide it. Prominent Protestant ex-guerrilla leader Johnny Adair was arrested in Northern Ireland yesterday, British officials said. The arrest followed days of violence in the Northern Ireland capital Belfast triggered by feuding between rival Protestant guerrilla groups. The renewed talks appeared to be the result of mediation efforts by US special envoy Dennis Ross, who has been in the region for nearly a week to prod the sides to bridge the differences left after the failed Camp David summit in July.