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On September 30th<\/sup>, 2014, Afghan national security advisor Hanif Atmar inked the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with NATO\u2019s senior civilian representative to Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n Like BSA agreement with USA, the entire aspects of SOFA agreement with NATO were too not reviewed; and, the esoteric points with multiple meanings and different interpretations and perceptions were not questioned, also. To deceive the public, like\u00a0 every other agreements, only those points were highlighted that were apparently on the benefit of Afghanistan, including \u201cshared commitment\u201d to a sovereign, secure and democratic Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Preface of this agreement states: \u201cConfirming the shared understanding of the Parties of the threat to the international community posed by terrorism and their shared commitment to taking effective action to counter that threat and to ensuring that Afghanistan never again becomes a safe haven for terrorists; Recognizing that the mission of the ISAF will be concluded by the end of 2014;<\/span><\/p>\n Recalling the commitment of NATO and other members of the international community to standing with Afghanistan and the Parties’ agreement at the NATO Summit in Lisbon to renewing and building a robust Enduring Partnership complementing their past security cooperation and continuing beyond it; \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The end of this preface states: \u201cReaffirming, finally, the Parties’ agreement on the value of NATO leading a non-combat, training, advising and assisting mission in Afghanistan beginning after 2014;\u2026\u201d [1]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n NATO\u2019s officials were always emphasizing that the purpose of NATO presence would not entail a combat mission in the post-2014 Afghanistan, it would only be a ‘non-combat’ mission.. However, the two clauses \u00a0of Article 2, is contradictory with the NATO’s new ‘non-combat’ mission, because in the \u00a0case of shared understanding, NATO forces can have a combat mission in Afghanistan, also.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On October 27th<\/sup>, 2014, BBC reported that the last British combatant soldiers had left Afghanistan and the war is over for British forces in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n According to this agreement, NATO, apparently, has ended their war in Afghanistan and was supposed to return to their countries, however, it did not happened; American Special Forces have continued their military operations in the villages of Afghanistan and recently, the British forces have also joined them.<\/span><\/p>\n According to English newspaper, \u201cMirror\u201d, the British Special Forces are back to \u00a0war in Afghanistan, fighting both Islamic State’s terrorists and the Taliban. However, the exact numbers of these troops are not yet known, but, \u00a0Taliban claims in its statement regarding the 96th<\/sup> Independence Day\u00a0 \u00a0that recently more than 2000 fresh British soldiers have arrived in Afghanistan\u201d [3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMirror\u201d quoting senior defense sources says that the British Special Forces are planning and leading counter-terrorist operations in Afghanistan. A senior British military source has told \u201cMirror\u201d: \u201cIn the last six months the British special forces have gone from training Afghan commando units to kicking down doors and arresting Taliban suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n When NATO announced that it is going to change its \u00a0combat mission to a non-combat one and would only be training, advising and assisting the afghan security forces,\u00a0 and American officials declared that from now onwards they do not recognizes Taliban as their enemy anymore, and the war of Afghan forces against the Taliban, is related to themselves. NATO carries out the non-combat training, advising and assistance mission only.<\/span><\/p>\n Since last year, the suspicious movement under the banner of Daesh has taken place in Eastern Afghanistan, and the Afghan officials have also propagated about this \u00a0this new group. Now, some political analysts think that the emergence of this group is a subterfuge for foreign forces to return to Afghanistan and to continue their military activities. American and British forces that were busy in the ‘night raids’ and and killing and arresting suspicious people by the name of Taliban in the past is now doing the same due to Daesh . However, this time \u00a0the new government is silent and does not criticize their actions.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Gordon Duff, a senior editor in Veterans Today, in one of his analysts said that the United States wants to stay in Afghanistan in order to keep its profitable heroin business in the country. In his interview with the Press TV, he said: \u201cThe only reason the United States would stay there, frankly, is to keep its multi-hundred-billion-dollar heroin business. The ‘opium’ has always been a portion of Afghanistan’s trade.<\/span><\/p>\n When the United States went came to \u00a0Afghanistan in 2001, Afghanistan had almost ended\u00a0 every aspect of narcotics production,\u201d Duff said. \u201cAs of last week, Afghanistan was producing 98 percent of the world\u2019s heroin. Cultivation of opium poppies, which are processed into heroin, amounting to 209,000 hectares that causes Afghanistan to remain as the world’s largest opium producer, He added. [4]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Abby Martin, in his article \u201cHow Opium is Keeping US in Afghanistan: CIA\u2019s Shady History of Drug Trafficking\u201d wrote: \u201cWar has always been about resources and control.\u201d [5]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n He said, as reported by\u00a0Global Research<\/a>: \u201cImmediately following the October 2001 invasion, opium markets were restored\u2026By early 2002, the opium price (in dollars\/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>The writer said, back in the fifties, the CIA turnedblind eye to drug trafficking and \u00a0flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia; du<\/em>ring the eighties, the CIA financially and logistically backed anti-communist contras (well-known as Iran-Contra) in Nicaragua who also happened to be international drug traffickers. CIA is busy with this job in Afghanistan, also, he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Though, analysts’ considering the return of British troops to Sangin District of Helmand Province in Afghanistan solely due to drugs and opium \u00a0cannot be considered as a reason for the return of British troops, because the British servicemen, besides fighting the armed oppositions, were responsible for tackling the narcotics in the past 13 years, also; however, they were not that much successful in its war on drugs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Return of British fresh troops in Afghanistan is an effort to re-extent their military presence in the country with different subterfuges including fighting the Islamic State group of terrorists. In the case, they, in the past 13 years, could not control the activities of anti-government elements (AGEs) in the areas of its responsibility (mission).\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This time, NATO would have fewer forces in Afghanistan, and the combat activities would be conducted by drones to a large extent, after that, however, the return of the American and British Special Forces in Afghanistan, and carrying night raids on Afghan houses and aimless assaults on residential areas could, once again, affect the public opinion in Afghanistan negatively.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, the people expect the government to control the recent presence of these forces in a way that \u00a0they would \u00a0not be able to conduct operations other than what is mentioned in the agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n The End<\/span><\/p>\n [1]<\/a> See online:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/mfa.gov.af\/Content\/files\/SOFA%20ENGLISH.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [2]<\/a> Previous source<\/span><\/p>\n [3]<\/a> See online:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/alemara1.org\/?p=24581<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [4]<\/a> see online:<\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/detail\/2013\/12\/06\/338440\/us-aims-to-stay-in-afghanistan-for-heroin\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nThe Non-combat Mission<\/span><\/h3>\n
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But, British Special Forces are Back in Helmand<\/span><\/h3>\n
The Emergence \u00a0of \u201cDaesh\u201d\u00a0 in Afghanistan<\/span><\/h3>\n
Opium Trade<\/span><\/h3>\n
Some analysts believe that \u00a0the return of British troops has connection to narcotics.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
Reasons and Consequences<\/span><\/h3>\n