Can the Afghan Taliban contain the threat from ISIL?

Collection of bombings in Afghanistan spotlight safety challenges since Taliban seized energy in August.

The Afghan Taliban says it has arrested the so-called “mastermind” of a bomb assault on a mosque.

Police say he's a significant ISIL (ISIS) operative, suspected of serving to to kill at the least 12 individuals within the northern metropolis of Mazar-i-Sharif on Thursday.

A lot of the victims had been from the Shia Muslim Hazara neighborhood.

ISIL claimed one other bomb blast on the identical day which killed 4 individuals in Kunduz.

On Tuesday, schoolchildren had been focused in a primarily Hazara space of Kabul.

A United Nations report final month discovered that ISIL was behind greater than 80 p.c of assaults because the Taliban takeover final yr.

So can the Taliban authorities leaders comprise the risk?

Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom

Company:

Faiz Zaland –  Government director of the Democracy, Peace & Growth think-tank

Rabia Akhtar – Director of the Centre for Safety, Technique and Coverage Analysis, College of Lahore

Neil Turner – Nation director in Afghanistan, Norwegian Refugee Council

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