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At least 17 people were killed and 37 were wounded in the southern province Uruzgan, in Afghanistan, as the militants launched an attack on Thursday on governmental buildings, targeting the governor’s house and the police headquarters with explosives and guns.

Taliban took credit for the coordinated attack, releasing the information that six suicide bombers participated in it.

At least one child, among other civilians, was reported by medical authorities among those killed during the attack. BBC added that a 25-year-old man also perished during the same attack.

This unleashing of extreme violence coordinated by the Taliban is linked to the fact that the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan is beginning to pull out its troops and the security issues are being transferred to the new Afghan security agencies operating on the field.

The drawdown is expected to begin this year, and be completed until 2014, as the plan issued by Obama administration shows. Tens of thousands combatants will be evacuated from Afghanistan, including the 4,000 French troops.

Against this background comes the bolder attacks of the Taliban, who have now a larger maneuver ground, since Pakistan decided to implement security in its own terms, and for its own interests, after the financial aid was canceled by the United States.

Pakistan withdrew troops from the border, allowing the Taliban the possibility to come to Afghanistan easier than before.

The Taliban, who suffered many losses among their high ranks as a result of coordinated attacks of the coalition and of the unmanned drones, seem to have maintained their appetite for attacking those whom they deem as the enemies and their collaborators amid the Afghan people.

The president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, and his Pakistani counterpart, Ali Zardari have voiced rage at the American drone attacks which killed many bystanders, putting pressure from tribal leaders in the area where Taliban hide on both leaders’ shoulders.

As a consequence of all these realities combined, the Taliban thrive, and announce their claim to the leadership of the country soon after the Americans go.

That is why the American command of the coalition decided on Wednesday to launch an all-out attack on the insurgents, in hope that they could be eliminated while the troops are still in Afghanistan, given that after that this goal will be less attainable.

Meanwhile, Taliban are making a very powerful comeback, displaying power and impunity by targeting and eliminating key figures in Afghanistan.

They started with the president’s half-brother, whom they executed through a bodyguard of his. The man was known as a controversial person, and at the time his demise seemed like a gift from heaven for the Americans.

Then a bomb exploded at his funeral day, targeting a governor who had come to attend the burial of the presidential brother.

Then, one of the presidential advisors was killed, and all thought that the Taliban were targeting the president himself.

On Wednesday, they claimed the killing of one of the most charismatic leaders in Afghanistan, mayor of Kandahar Ghulam Haider Hamidi, an American Afghan, whose assassination shows that the Taliban are willing to take out all those who hold an office in the country, and are in good relations with the Americans.

Under these circumstances, the departure of the American combat troops are likely to return the country to the same situation it had before the beginning of the war, in 2001, with a fundamentalist Taliban regime in power, and with no prospect for democracy or stability in the region.

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Yesterday, in New Delhi, the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan signed accords of cooperation in the field of fighting terror. How they will deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan remains to be seen, especially since the Americans have high hopes that India will ensure security in the region, now that Afghanistan is “India’s problem,” and the largest democracy in the world has its own agenda to expand cooperation in the Central Asian region, and adversity toward Taliban in Afghanistan would make the job a lot harder.

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