Letter From Afghanistan

In the Life
The essays below have been submitted by Afghan women and girls. Most of the articles have been lightly edited to assist with English grammar by Alliance volunteers, but the ideas, thoughts, and sentiments are all directly from the Afghan authors.

Security of Afghanistan

By Robina

Security means freedom, defense of our territory, and security means to keep our nation from enemies. As we know, fighting is going on for 30 years in Afghanistan, which has brought many disasters to our country, such as killing, injuring, destruction and joblessness. These entire problems have influenced the life of poor Afghans.

There are many widows and handicapped people in our country who don't have any ability in their family to solve their economical problems, so it has caused to increase the number of robberies and beggars in our country.

In fact, if we compare the current circumstances with the previous situation, we will understand that current conditions are too bad because in the past there was security or tranquility and there was no corruption and there weren't kidnappings, killing, robbery, suicide attacks, and bomb blasts in the country, unfortunately there were no schools and centers for people but they had rules and laws for every legal and illegal work. For example: If a person killed someone the Taliban would kill the killer.

But in the current situation we have schools, centers and universities, but unfortunately there is no security. The people don’t have peace and unity between themselves. Everywhere there are suicide attacks and bomb blasts. The enemies of the country can do anything they want because they are not afraid of the government.

Today we have people in parliament but they aren't working for the people, they just do the work that have benefits for themselves, Also, many people of Afghanistan are uneducated, they are ignorant, they don’t know about human rights, so the current situation is understandable. The enemies of our country pay money to the jobless people of our community to kill people by firing and exploding mines, however the people are obliged to do any illegal thing even selling their kids to get money to improve their economical condition.

I hope that the day will come that our people will stay together and there will be job opportunities. Also the most important part of the country is security, so I hope that they will train good police to keep good security to prevent all these problems, because without security it's difficult for progress and development of our country.