The UN envoy for Afghanistan on Wednesday said that the regional affiliates of the Islamic State group now appeared in almost all Afghan provinces and “increasingly active”. The briefing in the Afghan situation after the Taliban takeover, Deborah Lyons, a UN special representative for Afghanistan, told the UN Security Council that the Taliban “seemed to be very dependent on the detention and extra-judicial murder” in his response to its suspected Islamic members. .
“The other major negative development has become the inability of the Taliban to stem the expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and in the Province of Khorasan Levant. It is limited to several provinces and Kabul, ISILKP now seems to be present in almost all provinces and is increasingly active,” Lyons said to the council.
Is-k, the enemy sworn from the Taliban, has been responsible for suicide bombings outside Kabul airport in August and several recent bombs in Mosques Shia.
The UN envoy said the “Sincere effort” of the Taliban to present himself as the government was partially limited by “lack of resources and capacity”, and “the political ideology that clashed with contemporary international governance norms.” He also highlighted the “serious internal division” in Taliban set-up as a barrier to building full trust with many Afghan populations and convincing them about their capacity to rule.
The wider acceptance of the Taliban among the Afghan population has become a cause of worries because the cabinet of all men is mostly made of Pashtun Sunni. The international community has repeatedly called for a more inclusive government in which women and ethnic minorities get sufficient representatives.
“However, in the end, the Taliban must decide whether to rule in accordance with the needs and rights of a diverse Afghan population, or whether to rule on the basis of narrow ideology and even more narrower ethnic base,” Lyons added.