Countries’ Mindset Questionable

On May 15th, a UN Security Council meeting was held in order to find a solution to the current crisis in Pakistan. No solution was found. Instead, countries were still arguing over how to negotiate with the seemingly nonnegotiable Taliban. Some countries tried to negotiate with the Taliban by exchanging their freedom for the nuclear weapons. Alex Sale representing France suggested we (the countries) “give the Taliban our demands instead of negotiating around theirs.” However, the countries of the UN Security Council are not in a good position to negotiate as they still have yet to put the Taliban under military pressure.

Even though countries must start putting pressure on the Taliban, Sabrina Bral of India said that “Indian troops will be deployed on the Indian-Pakistan border.” Along with India, Israel and Great Britain both were deploying troops on the border while the other countries except for Russia wish to prevent military intervention. Russia suggested that the UN force should support the Pakistani army throughout this crisis.

In addition, countries are trying to stay indirectly involved by using Pakistan as a mouthpiece. In a statement recently sent to the media, Sabrina Bral of India said that “we would all be supervising and guiding Pakistan, but that Pakistan would be the only one directly negotiating.” If India is in the most danger, then wouldn’t India be doing everything they can to put an end to this? Countries are relying too heavily on the Pakistani military which has recently shown their incompetence when trying to stop the Taliban in the past. It seems as though many countries are taking this matter too lightly.

At the end of the meeting the Taliban gave assurance that they had the actual launch codes and they said that “an unnamed entity has provided us nuclear technologies which allow us to hit Israel and farther.” This fact still remains unconfirmed and if true, the Taliban may be able to fire nuclear weapons at any country they choose. After that statement, the Taliban said that “the threat is very real, do not take it lightly.” But will this statement by the Taliban make countries take this threat more seriously? The members of the UN Security Council need to start making the hard but necessary decisions to end this crisis for good.

By Jeffrey Albrecht
Edited by Corey Parks