The United Nations Security Council's September 16 session on Afghanistan was billed as a routine quarterly briefing. It became, instead, a cumulative indictment. Five years after the Taliban regime seized Kabul, and nearly six since it signed the Doha Agreement promising to sever ties with terrorist networks and deny Afghan territory to any group threatening other states, the Council's deliberations laid bare a regime that has inverted that bargain rather than honored it. What emerged was a single, coherent picture: a government that has converted territorial control into a shield for terrorism, while marketing that same control abroad as stability.