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Taliban controls 54% of Afghanistan Press
TV The Taliban has a stable presence in 54% of Afghanistan which puts it in grave danger of falling into Taliban hands, says a report. The 110-page report, released on Wednesday, has been issued by The Senlis Council, a Brussels-based international policy think-tank, on the basis of what it called an exclusive research. The Taliban controls "vast swaths of unchallenged territory" and is exercising a "significant amount of psychological control, gaining more and more political legitimacy in the minds of the Afghan people," the report revealed. "It is a sad indictment of the current state of Afghanistan that the question now appears to be not if the Taliban will return to Kabul, but when this will happen and in what form" and reaching the city in 2008 appears more viable than ever, it said.
The report suggested that NATO-led International Security Forces of some 40,000 troops should be doubled, and should also include forces from Muslim countries as well as NATO states which have refused to send troops to the country. Senior British and US military commanders reportedly agree with the report in private despite their public emphasis on short-term successes against Taliban fighters.
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