Lieutenant General Sami Sadat said that eight months the Taliban government had convinced many Afghanists that military action was the only way forward.
He said the operation could begin next month after the Eid al -Fitr Islamic festival, when he planned to return to Afghanistan.
Hardline Islamists swept the whole country in just 10 days, because the last NATO forces led by the last after the 20 -year -old military campaign.
Speaking for the first time about the plan, Lieutenant General Sadat told the BBC that he and others would “do anything and everything in our strength to ensure Afghanistan was released from the Taliban and the democratic system was rebuilt.
General underlined how the Taliban had re -introduced increasingly louder rules – including severe restrictions on the rights of women and girls – and it was time to stop their authoritarian orders and start a new chapter.
What we see in Afghanistan in the eight months of the Taliban government is none other than the restrictions on more religious, wrong quotation, misinterpretation and abuse of manuscripts from the Koran for political purposes.”
He initially planned to give a 12 -month Taliban to see if they would change, he said. “Unfortunately, every day you wake up the Taliban have something new to do – torture people, kill, disappear, lack of food, lack of nutrition of children.”
But in a country torn by more than forty years of conflict, many Afghan citizens are tired of war, despair to leave, or struggle to survive in the midst of deeper economic crises. The United Nations talks about a country marked by combat fatigue” with millions of people on the verge of starving.
Many in rural areas that bear the burden of the NATO war against the Taliban have welcomed relative calmness now because the US and Afghan War aircraft have left the heavens and the Taliban attacks have ended.
Lieutenant General Sadat, who led the Afghan government forces in the South Helmand province in the last month of the Taliban offensive, was also accused of ordering an attack that killed civilians. When asked about the accusation, he denied them.
In August last year he was appointed to lead the Afghan Special Forces and arrived in Kabul on the Taliban Day Sweeping and the Supreme Commander Ashraf Ghani Reduced from the country.
Asked whether there was an alternative for another war, Lieutenant General Sadat said he hoped that the Taliban was moderate, which was known to be uncomfortable with an increasingly larger restriction raft that reminded the Draconian Taliban government in the 1990s, could be part of a new government.
We do not oppose the Taliban,” he said, only against their current “textbook”, “describing an Afghanistan where” everyone is suitable, not a country only for the Taliban. “
In recent weeks, an audio message where Generals talked about armed battles against the Taliban with the aim of launching” Afghanistan leaked to the media.
In the past, armed groups including the Taliban won the Afghan War with the support of neighboring countries, the foothold in the country, and foreign funding.
I think they are holding their land pretty well. But I also tell them, you know, more confidence in themselves, because sustainable support from NATO and other countries can stop.
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