Taliban controls 54% of Afghanistan

The Taliban has a stable presence in 54% of Afghanistan which puts it in grave danger of falling into Taliban hands, says a report.

The 110-page report, released on Wednesday, has been issued by The Senlis Council, a Brussels-based international policy think-tank, on the basis of what it called an exclusive research.

The Taliban controls "vast swaths of unchallenged territory" and is exercising a "significant amount of psychological control, gaining more and more political legitimacy in the minds of the Afghan people," the report revealed.

"It is a sad indictment of the current state of Afghanistan that the question now appears to be not if the Taliban will return to Kabul, but when this will happen and in what form" and reaching the city in 2008 appears more viable than ever, it said. Press TV