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That they do have a vision for a kind of more liberal regime. whether, you know, whether they actually have the authority across the country. you have got to remember, afghanistan is a tribal nation and the remit, you know, the sources of power are quite localised. and so local tribal elders and chiefs will affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis.
Affiliate with the taliban. so it isn t a centralised authority, so they need to work with all these different power centres. whether they can keep a lid on all of that is a completely open question i think at this stage. particularly when, as we have seen, is k were quite capable of carrying out that attack also, they have said, at the airport. isis k is only, there is reckoned only to be about 3000 fighters in is k and it is quite localised, the support of isis within afghanistan. and, as you say, they have fought, the taliban have fought a war with isis. they have been fighting isis since isis first emerged in afghanistan. they are formally enemies, as we said. marc, we know that these flights to get people out are coming to an end. borisjohnson, for his part, has said he will do everything he can to keep trying to get people out of the country but we know that there have been queues of people trying to get across the land