Unfortunately, Suhail Shaheen and his media team didn't reply for inexplicable reasons. However, you will note Suhail Shaheen has made several statements in recent past that seem coincidentally to be a response to this historic questionnaire.
QUESTIONNAIRE
1. What made
you overthrow Ashraf Ghani through military means?
2. Do you
have popular support and mandate in terms of backing by majority of Afghan
people?
3. Why are
ordinary Afghans so scared of you that they didn't mind losing lives by
clinging to tyres or wings of flying planes and falling off from sky?
4. What's
your message to Afghans who have fled to other countries out of fear and
memories of brutality that Taliban is said to have perpetrated in 1990s?
5. What is basic
difference between present and past avatars of Taliban?
6. Media
reports are emerging of mismatch between your grand liberal statements and
actual behavior of your foot soldiers on
ground in Kabul and elsewhere with reports of harassment to ordinary people by
Talibani fighters trickling in. How far are these reports true?
7. Will you
take revenge on former ruler Ashraf Ghani, people, government servants
including police and military officials/soldiers who worked under Ashraf Ghani
Administration?
8. How will
you tackle challenges to your regime by other leaders and groups like Northern
Alliance that are poised against you?
9. What are
your plans for national and international Reconciliation to enable Afghanistan
enter a new era of stability and sustainable
peace?
10. Will you
permit international militants, extremists, and terrorist groups to use Afghanistan as a base, safe heaven;
and support them?
11. Will you
support militant groups like Jaish a Mohammad, Lashkar a Taiba that are
reportedly responsible for insurgency in Indian Kashmir?
12. Will you
give full freedom to women? Will you make their lives hell by enforcing Burqa
and other practices against their own sweet will? Will you let them go to
educational institutions for education, and work in offices and field alongwith
males on an equal footing? Are reports of your foot soldiers coercing ordinary
Afghans, looting their properties and honour, forcibly abducting females aged 15 to 47 years true?
13. Which
form of Islam shall Taliban government practice - Hardline inhumane version or
Liberal tenets of Islam?
14. How
shall Taliban regime help build a totally peaceful Asia and world by distancing
itself from extremist groups that it is allegedly thought to be associated
with?
15. What is
your message to people of Sanatan/Hindu-majority India and its present
government?
16. Why
should Indians and global community now trust you despite memories of brutality
practiced by Taliban in 1990s?
17. Symbols of
minority communities like statue of Budhaa were destroyed in past by Islamist
groups in Afghanistan. What’s the guarantee that these minority communities
like Christians, Sanatanis/Hindus, Sikhs, etc. shall not face religious
persecution under new Taliban dispensation?
18. How will
you ensure Afghan soil isn’t used against India by extremists? How will you
ensure the road linking India to Iran via Afghanistan shall remain safe? How
will you ensure various ongoing development
projects undertaken by Indians and Indian government shall not be harmed by
anyone?
19. What’s
your message to Indian Muslims?
20. How will
you ensure a free press and social media in Afghanistan?
21. What
shall be role of Taliban regime vis a vis India and Pakistan? It is believed
Taliban is a puppet created and controlled by Pakistani Establishment. How far
is it true?
22. How far
is the trust expressed by thinker, philosopher, and geographer Dr Swaamee
Aprtemaanandaa Jee in Taliban having really TRANSFORMED themselves into a humane organization true?
23. Anything
else that you would like to say?
- Sujata Kumari,
Chief Editor,
Aatmeeyataa Patrekaa
(Foto: Courtesy of @suhailshaheen1)
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