From an End to the Start: Settling the Status of the Foreign Terrorist Fighters from Transnational Criminal Law to Contemporary International Law. (original) (raw)

“The Road to Kabul” epitomes the romance involved in the freedom struggle of the Afghan Fighters against the Soviet Union occupation. The soap opera was aired during the festive season of Ramadan in the year 2004, but after airing for eight episodes the opera was cut off due to “technical difficulties” . Nonetheless, “The Road to Kabul” is a perfect parable narrating the contemporaneous violent paradigm shift from “Foreign Fighter” to “Foreign Terrorist Fighters.” Through a budding romance, it introduces the audience to many complex characters, which highlights the contemporary fragile status of “Foreign Terrorist Fighters.” Over the decades of the failure of the UN Conflict resolution , the problem of “FTF” from national transcending to the Balkans and then Iraq and Syria, a transnational phenomenon now attracts the immediate attention of the International Community. The status of “FTF” is no longer transnational concern, rather it is the International crisis have to be dealt by the UN. The TV show centers on the influx of “Arab Afghan” volunteering from the various parts of the Arab world to fight for freedom against a forceful foreign occupation, and then the narration triggers the contemporary violent transformation from “Freedom” to “Terrorism”. The fight for “Kabul” always seen as a perfect tunnel through which the “Arab Afghan” metamorphosed Into “Al Qaeda” fighting against the Western invasion and injustice onto the Islamic world. The Contemporary legislation, treaties, agreements, committees has transpired the immediate attention of “FTF” under International Law. The paper through the origin of “Freedom Fighters” forth the reader to understand the emergence of “FTF,” It also tries to settle the status of “FTF,” through differentiating between romance and establishment of cohesive Islamic world order. Due to lack of efficacy to curb the emergence of “FTF,” unacceptable has become the UN’s “Urgent Global Security Matter” . As a student of International Law and Politics, I view the hegemony of the West and the Europeans to be defining the terms of International crisis to serve their purpose. The Contemporary International crisis in Syria draws the immediate action, but Russia permanent member of the UNSC always vetoed ‘quash broadly supported draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions designed to censure the Assad regime.’ Such abuse of International power not only creates an imbalance in “equal status for nation-states” under Public International Law but also, in consequence alleviate the crisis. From a transnational identity of Islam, through decades of consolidation, and civil wars, fanatically transformed “Freedom” to “Terrorism”. To substantiate my proposition, observation made by Andreas and Nadelmann, that ‘International crime control is one of the most important – and one of the most overlooked – dimensions of US hegemony in world power.’ With power play mostly by the US and Russia in the present political unrest in Syria, has only resulted in causalities of innocent civilians. The UN’s primary concern is the protection of the civilians. But, the UN sadly but expectedly failed to protect civilians, history of failures in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan and now in Syria, civilians always have to suffer. The current world politics is biased and limited, and no sense of justice and equality; however, there still exist Western and Middle East imperialism and therefore, resulted in the foundation of “terror,” now triggering the gun at them, and so the conscience effort arise to deal with the crisis immediately.