With the US’s pullout from Afghanistan less than a month away, the Taliban have already gained massive ground and currently more than two-thirds of the country, and are fast approaching Kabul.
Cornered, the Afghanistan government has offered them a share in the government if they agreed to shed violence. The Taliban have already overrun several Afghan military outposts, town and villages and surrounding major cities, fuelling fears once again that they could topple the government.
The militants, ousted in the weeks after September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, captured the city of Ghazni on Thursday, the ninth provincial capital they have seized in a week, as US intelligence said the capital, Kabul, just 150 km to the northeast, could fall to the insurgents within 90 days.
The Taliban control about two-thirds of Afghanistan, with the last of the U.S.-led international forces set to leave by the end of the month, and their guerrilla army has waged war on multiple fronts,…