October 14, 2009

Those with free conscience in the world know that America and NATO member countries have been shedding blood of the innocent Afghans for the past eight years under the pretext of terrorism. Tens of thousand of miserable Afghans including women, children and old men have become victims to this fatuous pretext. Still more, this spree of killing, prosecution and torture at the hand of the invaders has been continuing unabated.

Our parent are not able to send their children to schools with a peace of mind, fearing they might be killed because the invaders have frequently shelled seminaries and schools under the excuse of being training centers of terrorists. Our common public passengers fear they may get stuck between military convoys of the invaders and lose life. Many a time, it has happened that the so-called international security forces have run over common people’s vehicles. Afterward, they claimed that the passengers had not paid attention to their signals. In order word, they consider passengers’ not heeding to their signal a justification to kill them. Our businessmen are grappling with various problems in their daily commercial activities, being not able to perform their normal business routine. They fear, their goods may be damaged by foreign troops while transporting them from one province to another. They also fear that some officials in uniform will loot their commodity. A few days ago, foreign forces set fire to 2,000 shops in Gandum Raiz bazaar, Zamindawar area, Kajaki district, Helmand province, burning them to ashes. Other bazaars of the district are under similar threat. Our farmers are not able to work in fields with solace because the enemy helicopters and fighter planes are hovering over them. Some times they take peasants farm equipments to be weapons and the farmers to be armed militants busy erecting outposts, so they open fire at them. Our common men could not go to sleep without tension because the foreign troops usually raid people’s houses and kill elders of the households or take them to Guantanamo, Bagram, Kandahar, or other notorious jails. In fact, our nation is hostage in the hands of the foreign forces in Afghanistan. They have been terrorizing our people, ostensibly under the name of fighting terrorism.

Despite the atrocities that they have unleashed, still a great part of Afghanistan is under the control of the Islamic Emirate. The problem is that the American and NATO forces are in complete jittery and are suffering from psychological diseases. They think every Afghan, child or a mature person, male or female is going to attack them by blowing up him or herself. So they fear from every rock and every bush of Afghanistan, considering them to be their enemy, thinking, Taliban might have planted a landmine under it. They open fire at every direction.

The invaders have turned our country into an inferno where the oppressed Afghans have been burning. Therefore, we urge the participants of the Shanghai Summit to render assistance in the work of liberation of people and countries of the region from the claws of the colonialists and take a decisive stand regarding the West’s invasion of Afghanistan.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan , as a liberation movement, wants to play a positive role in peace and stability of the region besides its current mission of liberating the country.

The esteemed Amir of the Islamic Emirate [Mullah Omar] has touched upon this matter in his recent message as follows:

"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan wants to have good and positive relations with all neighbors based on mutual respect and open a new chapter of good neighborliness of mutual cooperation and economic development.

We consider the whole region as a common home against colonialism and want to play our role in peace and stability of the region. "

We remind the participants of the Shanghai Forum to be aware of being swayed by the black propaganda launched against us by colonialism. We do not have any intention to harm our neighboring countries but we want to gain independence of our country which is our natural right and establish an Islamic system as a panacea for all our economic and social problems, for which, we have been offering tremendous sacrifices unremittingly.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as per its peaceful policy wants to have constructive interactions with Shanghai forum member countries for a permanent stability and economic development in the region on the basis of mutual respect.