Baada ya miaka mitatu bila vita nchini kwao., Wataleban wanasema wamechoka kukaa ofisini na sasa wanataka kupigana vita.
Msemaji wa Taleban Mullah Janan, alinukuliwa akisema "Tuna kiu ya vita sasa, tunatarajia tutapigana vita karibuni, tumechoka kukaa tu ofisini na tunategemea karibuni tutakuwa vitani"
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Sitting in an office is boring’: Taliban soldiers long for war
From the ‘thrill’ of guerrilla warfare to the humdrum of government jobs, former Afghanistan insurgents are struggling to cope with change
Mullah Janan stares blankly at the stack of papers on his desk each morning, the weight of boredom pressing down on him.
For over 15 years, he fought foreign and Afghan forces in southern Helmand province, leading his band of fellow Taliban fighters in a seemingly endless insurgency.
But those days are long gone now.
Three years ago, after two decades of war, the Taliban took over Afghanistan following the withdrawal of international forces.
They entered Kabul on August 15, 2021, after Ashraf Ghani, the US-backed president, fled and the Western-supported Afghan security forces collapsed.
‘I ask myself what exactly I am doing’
Many of the Taliban who once celebrated the “victory” are now disillusioned by the confusing peace and the monotonous routine of office jobs. Across the country, government departments are staffed by bearded men whose primary experience is waging war.
Mullah Janan, 38, was offered a desk job at a local district office in November 2021.
It was a far cry from the “thrill” of guerrilla warfare, the adrenaline of ambushes and firefights.
“It does not look like I thought. It is boring,” he tells The Telegraph on a hot August day in Helmand after working for eight hours.
“We did not expect to take over the country that fast, so we never had a chance to think about adequately governing the nation,” he recalls.
“We had some sort of shadow governments in our controlled areas before, but we would go to war before and after that.”
Now his days are consumed by the monotony of bureaucracy – filling out forms, processing paperwork, and attending mind-numbing meetings.
“Sometimes I ask myself what exactly I am doing. I was raised and trained to be at war, to be a fighter not behind a desk with my green and black [tea] always ready,” he says.
From the ‘thrill’ of guerrilla warfare to the humdrum of government jobs, former Afghanistan insurgents are struggling to cope with change
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