"I acknowledge that the Taliban are in control of the country," Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News. "I mean, you don t have to be a political scientist to spot that s where we re at."
The longstanding war in Afghanistan reached a watershed moment on Sunday when the Taliban insurgents closed in on Kabul before entering the city and took over the presidential palace, forcing embattled President Ashraf Ghani to join fellow citizens and foreigners to flee the country.
The closure of the last major border crossing out of Afghanistan to fall to the insurgents follows their seizure of the eastern city of Jalalabad, on the main highway to the capital Kabul, earlier on Sunday.
Counselling the Centre to shun the alleged arrogance "which does not last in politics", Gehlot asserted that people understand everything and will teach it a lesson at an appropriate time.
It was not immediately clear whether the Taliban had given their final agreement to Jalali s appointment but he was seen as a potentially acceptable compromise figure to oversee the transition of power, the sources said.