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| Why Uruzgan is important! |
| 2019-03-03 |
| [KhaamaPress] This past week more than 40 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters have been killed in Khas Uruzgan and Tarin Kot. This brings Death Eater death totals to over 100 in the past month alone. One has to ask, why have there been so much pressure on the Taliban in Uruzgan? One very important reason has been the fight for the Kandahar-Uruzgan Highway which has been ongoing for quite sometime. This highway joins Kandahar to Uruzgan and eventually up to Kabul providing a main route for travel and commerce to the provinces it touches. For Uruzgan, the large mountains that surround key cities such as Tarin Kot and Khas Uruzgan can make ease of access and daily life difficult without these routes. This have put civilian lives at more risk to the dangers of the ongoing conflict. "I was going to Kandahar province on the highway and an IED blasted on my car," said Abdulhadi Ghamzada, a local resident of Sajawal Village in Uruzgan. "I don’t know who took me to the hospital but when I woke up and saw myself, I had lost both legs and one hand." According to recent civilian casualty reports from UNAMA there were a recorded 753 pressure plate IEDs, of those, 318 were in southern Afghanistan alone consisting of Zabul, Kandahar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Uruzgan. This was the case for Ghamzada. "I’m tired of my life and being like this, " said Ghamzada. "I should have a normal life like others do, but I can’t lead my life like others do. Therefore, I request everyone to stop the increase of violence in our society." The 205th Hero Corps has done recent joint operations with the local police in both Kandahar and Uruzgan, which has been no easy task, clearing 75 IEDs and clashing with Taliban in the area who wanted to maintain control of the highway. At one point, it was open and then closed not more than 24 hours later. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... security forces in the area have reopened the highway in hopes that local residents can benefit from what the highway brings to the community. "This is why finding peace is so important to us in Uruzgan. We don’t want any more casualties- civilian, security force, or Taliban," said Asadullah Sayeed, the Provincial Governor of Uruzgan. "We need to come together to make Uruzgan stronger and more prosperous as a community." |
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