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Taliban lack basic skills to govern: Analyst | Toronto Sun
''As the Taliban announce their new cabinet of the newly-reinstated Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, some analysts are questioning the group’s ability to handle even the most basic aspects of modern governance.
“They are good at fighting, they’re good at walking in the mountains, but they’re not good at using a Mac (computer) in 2021,” said Mohammad Ehsan Saadat, who before fleeing to Canada last month was head researcher for the Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization — a Kabul-based think tank.''
“They can’t use a cell phone, even their main spokesperson can’t speak English.”
Some of Afghanistan’s best minds were educated in western Universities, he said — and without their guidance, he sees dark times ahead for his country.''
PASSIFIUME: One family's odyssey from Kabul to Toronto | Toronto Sun
''Canada’s embarrassing Kabul evacuation notwithstanding, Saadat c
redits his family’s escape to both intuition and foresight on things to come.
As lead researcher with the Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization, part of his job involved attending out-of-town seminars and presentations.
It was during one such trip in March where he met colleagues involved with peace talks between the government and the Taliban — which were not going well.
“Some districts had already fallen after only a few months,” Saadat told me.
As peace talks collapsed and the Taliban advanced,
he could see the writing on the wall.
“I said to myself, something is wrong,” he recalled.
“I have to look for something.”
''After days of exchanging emails with Global Affairs Canada, Saadat spent 24 hours filling out paperwork — despite his colleagues’ skepticism.''
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Even my foreigner friends were telling me it was fake,” he said.
“I was discouraged, but I never stopped.”
From there, things moved fast.
Ten hours after submitting his application on Aug. 5, he was summoned to a biometrics appointment, and the next day informed they had 30 hours to pack and meet officials at an undisclosed location.''
