well Ali-sayed brother, the same fiefdoms also exist in pakistan look at karachi is that not a sort of fiefdoms of MQM and ANP. Rural punjab is being controlled by punjabi taliban and i dont think so south and east of afghanistan is in the hands of taliban. The current afghan army should not be under estimated, they have become a professional force and they are improving all the time. Previous mujahidden have filled the ranks and they have become professional. Another development in afghanistan in recent months is the uprising in Ghazni, Paktia, Laghman and Faryab by locals against taliban which has worried the talibans and it is called an unprising against punjab, as majority of taliban fighters either killed or captured are punjabi’s. The afghans do not longer make the majority of the taliban fighters and it is people from pakistan and especially punjabi’s.