Afghanistan crisis: Scare, uncertainty grip Kabul although peace prevails

 The Afghan capital’s residents seemed doubtful about their future, pondering whether the current peace could be a lull before storm

Although the security situation is comparatively stable compared when the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15, the Afghan capital’s residents seemed doubtful about their future, pondering whether the current peace could be a lull before storm. Since Kabul’s fall to the Taliban, many government offices, schools and universities have remained closed.

The Taliban has however, repeatedly called upon government employees to return to their offices and resume their work normally, but many offices in the government and private sectors including banks, schools and universities have been out of business. “Since last Sunday I have not been to my office as no one knows what would happen next hour or in the afternoon,” a Kabul resident Noor Khan told Xinhua news agency on Sunday.

The 37-year-old Khan, an employee of the Passport Department in Kabul, claimed that none of his colleagues are going to return to the office. “So far no government has been formed by the Taliban and Afghanistan has no president or any other head of state, which virtually means a “vacuum of power,” another Kabul resident Ahmad Nawed told Xinhua.