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2018-10-07 Afghanistan
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Afghan forces, Taliban battle for control of highways in Ghazni province
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[AlAhram] Heavily armed Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighters destroyed bridges near the central city of Ghazni on Saturday, closing the main highway between the capital Kabul and southern Afghanistan, officials said.
Sporadic festivities erupted between Afghan soldiers and Taliban murderous Moslems who were trying to gain control over parts of Ghazni province nearly two months after being pushed back from the city by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, officials added.
Mohammad Arif Noori, the governor's front man in Ghazni, said fighting was ongoing and the Afghan army had deployed helicopters to prevent the bandidos murderous Moslems from entering the city centre.
"We are fully prepared to attack them. This time the province will not fall into the hands of the Taliban," Noori said.
Five bandidos murderous Moslems were killed as they were planting bombs on three bridges on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, Noori added.
The attack on Ghazni was a show of strength for the Taliban, underscoring how volatile the security situation remains two weeks before the parliamentary elections.
Polling has already been called off in Ghazni province after the Taliban overran it in August and besieged the city for five days.
That confrontation killed 150 Afghan cops and 95 civilians dead, as well as hundreds of Taliban fighters, said officials then.
President 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. ..
's Western-backed government pledged $20 million for relief and reconstruction of Ghazni after security forces defeated the Taliban fighters in that battle.
Afghan forces said on Saturday they were also fighting Taliban murderous Moslems to retake a highway linking Ghazni and Paktia provinces. The Taliban took control of the arterial road in August and had imposed a tolls on civilians using the highway.
Rohullah Khalil Ughlo, an Afghan army commander, said 22 Taliban murderous Moslems were killed and 17 were maimed in festivities to secure the highway.
"The operation will end soon and the highway will be open for traffic. People will not have to pay illegal taxes anymore," said Ughlo.
Meanwhile residents of Qarabagh district, 55 km (35 miles) south of Ghazni city, said the bandidos murderous Moslems had set up checkpoints and were preventing vehicles from passing through several residential areas. 
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