Season 3, Episode 5 - “Have the Taliban really succeeded in developing sustainable armed forces for Afghanistan?”.

Prompted by a boast by Emirate Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi, we consider whether the Taliban have achieved a goal which has eluded Afghanistan for two decades – the creation of security forces paid for by Afghan revenues. To answer the question, we look at what the Taliban have done with the security structure they inherited from the Republic and how Taliban fighters have made the transition from the insurgency into acting as state forces and how the Taliban pay for this.