Comments by "ThatDutchguy" (@thatdutchguy2882) on "Why has Afghanistan seen so many attacks in the last week?" video.
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The attacks in Afghanistan happen for a plethora of reasons from many groups involved even foreign one's. You can't claim that there's only one agenda or only one perpetrator involved in Afghanistan.
You've got the Taliban whom control 70% of the territory of Afghanistan effectively, with aid of some elements within large tribal Afghan communities and their leaders, sometimes aided by a part the Pakistani secret service the ISI.
ISIS terrorist have managed to get a small but consistent foothold into Afghanistan, aided by a group of Afghan tribes in conflict with the majority of the other Afghan tribes. These are financed via Saudi-Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Koeweit and some very rich and politically connected families based in Jordan and Pakistan.
ISIS enjoys the support not only in finance but logistics and political cover from these countries, not mention intelligence via their secret services, even a part of the Pakistani ISI is again involved in this.
Then you've got the main Pakistani Government involved in the conflict with Afghanistan, it sees that country as it's own backyard. Conflict is good for them there because then they can to some degree control Afghanistan, unity in that country is seen as unfavourable in Pakistan, so they play all of the parties involved.
This sometimes gets out of hand and their Government troops aka the Pakistani Military and Pakistani civilians get hurt or killed in the process, but it's seems that Pakistan's Government takes that on the chin as a cost of doing business there, not to mention, they've lost full control over their secret service the ISI along time ago, so their agendas don't always match, not even within the ISI itself.
Rampant corruption in the Afghan Police Forces only ad to the troubles there. That, and the tribalism in the Afghan Police will remain an enormous cause for concern, because most police units are actually tribal militias and their ranking officers are the tribal leaders, so, alliances can shift as fast as the wind does for any reason at any time.
Then come remains of what was one's the Northern alliance of Masud, they vehemently oppose the Taliban, ISIS and the remaining Al-Quaida elements still left in Afghanistan. They are underfunded and mistrusted by the current Afghan Government because of a power struggle were elements of the Afghan Government occasionally side with the Taliban although they're idiotically incompatible with one another, so, it's not about tribalism or religion but clearly politically motivated.
It gets even deeper if you get into the Pashtun area's spread over both Afghanistan and Pakistan, there too are many side's with as many agendas involved. Put untop of that the difference between the EU and US visions of a future Afghanistan and their approaches to achieving that and it's a perfect storm.
Don't forget,....there are still elements of Al-Quaida there in conflict with everybody els and Russia and China are there in background because they want to exploit the vast untapped natural resources of Afghanistan.
Karachi is a whole separate issue too, but very much part of the Afghan conflict as the main international transport hub (harbour) in Pakistan but for that entire region really, needed by both Afghanistan and Pakistan but all the parties involved too, it's vital to control the harbour, problem is, non of them do, it's a very powerful criminal family that in reality control that harbour.
But I've heard that Donald Trump is going to easily fix the problem,....so i'm not worried anymore lol ;-).
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