local police commander provinces one of afghanistan's most volatile regions or let's speak to michael semple now who is professor at george mitchell institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast his via skype from belfast thank you very much for joining us are the taliban is denying responsibility for this latest attack in one province is this the work of i so you think. sometimes these suicide bombings are carried out in such a way that it's really difficult to determine who did them they the taliban have a pattern of denying responsibility for the most egregious attacks but they are also trying to destabilize the government and that's exactly what happens when this kind of bomb goes off so it's possible that they carried it out but are just of voiding taking responsibility or it's possible that that ice will carry that out nobody gets to know and right as he signed june between the taliban and the government has really had raised some hopes that the conflict could end with negotiations where two such attacks who seen an increase in the number of attacks rece

has seen a spate of my soul attacks and recent months the taliban has denied involvement and michael semple is a professor at at queen's university in belfast and has a ceasefire talks with the taliban and dead in the water from the the june cease fire i think from what ordinary taleban they are the ranks of the movement what they said when they came into town was that they want an end to this killing of muslims but the the leadership of the taliban movement took a very different view on it the leadership of the taliban movement still believes that they can win this war they were worried by the cease fire they thought that it could actually served in the enthusiasm of the ranks for the fighting so they rounded off as soon as possible and avoided entering a new cease fire for a deal curb on the taliban leadership is determined to fight on others not interested in negotiations for now i think that those who planned parliamentary elections which are jew in six weeks time did not anticipate this level of violence . i think that there are major major risks are around the elections and people ser

monger has seen a spate of isolate tax in recent months the taliban has denied involvement well michael semple is a professor at the george mitchell institute for global peace security and justice at queen's university belfast and he has proposed ceasefire talks with the taliban dead in the water. from the the june cease fire i think from what you know ordinary taliban they are the ranks of the movement what they said when they came into town was that they want an end to this killing of muslims but the the leadership of the taliban movement took a very different view on it the leadership of the taliban movement still believes that they can win this war they were worried by the cease fire they thought that it could actually survived in the enthusiasm of the ranks for the fighting they rounded up as soon as possible and avoided entering a new cease fire for a deal curb on the taliban leadership is determined to fight on and is not interested in negotiating for now i think those who planned parliamentary elections which are jew in six weeks time this not anticipating this level of violence i thin