KABUL commanders, hardliners who did not want to join the peace process are going to join ISIS.
“That threat may increase over a period of time,” Mohib told Fox News on Tuesday. “For the time being, ISIS is not a strategic threat to us. We have been able to get rid of them in places they have taken hold, he said.
“But if the peace process goes wrong and doesn’t really integrate all of the Taliban, the hardliners may join ISIS, which is when it will become a strategic threat to us and our international partners.”
Mohib, who has been in the US to attend the UN General Assembly, told the American news outlet: “Now we are in a very good place to begin real peace negotiations. It was not all a waste. I think there are parts we can salvage,” adding that they are analyzing what prevailed and what can be redeemed for future use.
He said the Taliban had said they would blow up polling stations but fourteen suicide attacks were prevented on the night before the elections alone. “On the day, (they) tried to launch 273 attacks, some did result in casualties in the case of security forces, but no civilians were harmed. I’m very proud of our security forces of being able to manage such a high-level of threats.”
“We wanted to make sure the elections happened, and security was good, we focused on that and delivered on that,” Mohib asserted.
“We have re-created our country out of the rubble in the last 20 years. There was literally nothing there. The man-made infrastructure was destroyed. “Now Kabul looks like any other capital. People are connected, culturally sophisticated, tech-savvy. That is the biggest progress in the world, and we have the US to thank for that.”
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