[Tolo News] First Vice-President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
on Tuesday said the Taliban and other bad boy groups have sold out and are puppets to foreigners.
| Like the ISI? But the Taliban have always been responsive to the desires of the ISI. |
Dostum, who is currently visiting battle-weary Faryab, drove home the fact that unless the Taliban drops their weapons, they will be taken down by the security forces.
"Let me tell you one thing that they [Taliban] cannot confront us," Dostum said, warning that "if they try to confront us, I will hit them wearing my suite and tie."
Talking about Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title
Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
's death he stated that he has known for a year that the late Taliban leader was dead. He said the world knows who is killing Taliban leaders.
He went on to say that the continuation of the war in Afghanistan following Mullah Omar's death is confirmation that the war is led by others.
'Others'.... which cannot be named due to existing agreements and political intrigues. All further confirmed by the failed reporting of his [Mullah Akhtar Mansour's] demise for two solid years by those in the know.
Meanwhile in reaction to the Taliban's new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour's recent remarks, where he called for Jihad against the Afghan government and security forces, Dostum said Jihad must be led against the Taliban - not the government and security forces.
"I am telling Mullah Mansour that 'Jihad is not obligatory on you but it is obligatory on us; it is obligatory on the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Afghanistan because you are coming from out of the country but our security forces inside the country are defending our territorial integrity, our national illusory sovereignty and the elected government of national unity," Dostum added.
In addition he said anti-government armed oppositions were fleeing Faryab.
Dostum however praised the Afghan special forces in Faryab for their commitment to fighting insurgency in a bid to restore peace.