The UN envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday said that the indigenous chapter of the Islamic State group now appears present in nearly all Afghan businesses and “ decreasingly active”. Briefing on the Afghanistan situation following the Taliban’s preemption, Deborah Lyons, UN special representative for Afghanistan, told the UN Security Council that the Taliban “ appears to calculate heavily onextra-judicial detentions and killings” in its response against suspected Islamic State-Khorasan members.
“ Another major negative development has been the Taliban’s incapability to stem the expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and in Levant Khorasan Province. Once limited to a many businesses and Kabul, ISILKP now seems to be present in nearly all businesses and decreasingly active,” Lyons told the Council.
S-K, a sworn adversary of the Taliban, has been responsible for a self-murder bombing outside Kabul field in August and recent multiple bombings in Shia kirks.
The UN envoy said the Taliban’s “ genuine trouble” to present itself as a government are incompletely constrained by the “ lack of coffers and capacity”, as well as a “ political testament that clashes with contemporary transnational morals of governance.” She also stressed “ serious internal division” in the Taliban set-up as an manacle to establishing full trust with important of the Afghan population and persuading them of their capacity to govern.
The Taliban’s broader acceptance among the Afghan population has been a cause of concern as the each-manly press is largely made of Sunni Pashtuns. The transnational community has been constantly calling for a further inclusive government where women and ethnical nonages get enough representation.
“ Eventually, still, the Taliban must decide on whether to govern according to the requirements and the rights of the different Afghan population, or whether to rule on the base of a narrow testament and an indeed narrower ethnical base,” Lyons added.
