Before the Talibans came into power in 1996, the previous governments succeeded in destroying the country through different factions, ethnical tribes, languages and even religion.  Instead of stabilization, civil war broke, overtaking the capital city Kabul and Afghanistan as a whole.

During the governing period of Mujahidin’s, millions of Afghans were brutally killed. However, mujahidin leader Professor Sayaaf who destroyed Kabul city and commanders like Zardad fell far below humanity standards that they chose the most inhuman way to torture people through his tamed Militia named Abdullah Shah who was known as the Human Dog. Abdullah Shah was mostly clamped in chains and would attack humans like a wild dog upon commands by his master Zardad who is in United Kingdom Jail for his inhumanity Acts.

 

I quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faryadi_Sarwar_Zardad

 

This vicious cycle had already occurred during the Communist regime prior to the overruling by the Mujahidin where many Afghans returned in the hope of a peaceful country being established by the Mujahidin after going through extreme hardships, sacrificing their own lives and living in exile for several years. However, ongoing wars forced greater number of people to flee the country once again.

People were extremely devastated, and faced extreme hardship throughout the Communists regime and Mujahidin government which gifted golden chance to Americans and their great allies Pakistan to establish a group that was easily acceptable to the Afghans due to their culture, religion by working towards their long-term strategic goals in the region.

Both took great advantages of this vacuum, formed Taliban government, and supported them to fight for their objectives which both Americans and Pakistanis had on their agendas in regards to having dominance over Afghanistan by dispelling the Mujahidin government with the thought of establishing a western type democracy in the country, which was already in chaos. However, they made a huge mistake in evaluating the true intentions of the Taliban.

 

These uneducated Talibans had no knowledge of modern science, technology and civilization. Therefore, Americans and Pakistanis bestowed their full support to Taliban's to establish their strict extremist government based on very strict Islamic laws (Sharia) which was just named to intimidate people.

Later on, they started punishing the citizens, especially women, excluding from all activities including education and enforced many restrictions on their movement’s and  rights which messed up life for every Afghan and pushed them to the edge. They turned against the standard education, closing most schools, and transforming them to Dini-Madrassa (Religious School) where only culture was taught and this destroyed the lives of educated people.

 

Although Afghans had fled the country during the Mujahidin regime that overtook Afghanistan, the number of refugees significantly increased because the Mujahidin government was scattered into many factions as the civil wars began. This was a major reason why the Taliban Government was formed to stop the country from falling on the wrong path with the thought that Taliban’s were much respected and honest people. Later, the Talibans implemented their strict religious rules and regulations, including corporal punishments in public where no difference was designated between man and women.  

Success of the Taliban meant more stripping away of personal autonomy and vindictive punishments by the ‘Soldiers of God’. They acted completely against God's will and misused religion in order to maintain their tight grip of power without giving anyone their human rights. The general insanity of a country that has lost itself to the brutality of these people and those who preceded them, especially  people who denounced modern science but instead ruled by power of modern guns, is witnessed by the Author as he struggles to come to terms with the horrors occurring in the land of his birth.

 

Is Afghanistan destined to live in perpetual hell?