Karim Khurram says lack of national unity and global isolation may push Afghanistan into another era of foreign domination.
Kabul – Afghanistan risks becoming a battleground for another round of great power rivalries unless it urgently builds national consensus and restores institutional legitimacy, warned former presidential chief of staff Karim Khurram in a post on social media platform X.
In a powerful message, Khurram likened the country’s fragile political and societal structure to a “time bomb” waiting to explode. “The 21st century is defined by US-China rivalry,” he wrote, “just as the previous two centuries were shaped by US-Soviet and British-Russian conflicts. Afghanistan stood at the crossroads then—and stands there again now.”
Khurram, once a close aide to former President Hamid Karzai, criticized the country’s political disintegration, warning that without national unity, Afghanistan risks being used once more as a proxy zone in a new Cold War between global superpowers.
