...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group turbans will resume after the ceasefire period extended by the Afghan government ended late on Friday night.
MoD front man Gen. Mohamamd Radmanish informed regarding the resumption of the operations as he was speaking during a presser shortly after President Ghani said the ceasefire with the Taliban has come to an end.
He said the ceasefire was originally announced from 27th of the holy month of Ramadan until the 5th day of Eid al-Fitr and was subsequently extended for another ten days by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..Gen. Radmanish further added that the ceasefire period has ended as per the instructions of President Ghani and the operations will resume similar to the past.
In regards to the latest operations conducted in the past 24 hours, Gen. Radmanish said at least 35 myrmidons, including five ISIS-K bad boyz were potted and at least 33 others sustained injuries.
He said at least nine of the turbans were killed in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, 6 were killed in Uruzgan, 5 ISISI-K turbans were killed in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, 4 turbans were killed in Faryab, 10 others were killed in Maidan Wardak, and another terrorist was killed in Sari Pul-Jawzjan highway.
Gen. Radmanish said the Afghan forces defended against the Taliban attacks in at least ten parts of the country while conducting counter-terrorism operations against al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other terror groups.
According to Gen. Radmanish, the Afghan forces also discovered and defused nine improvised bombs from various parts of the country during the same operations.