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2020-03-09 Afghanistan
ANDSF to End Defensive Stance: Khalid
Gooooooooo get ‘em!
[ToloNews] Acting Defense Minister Assadullah Khalid on Sunday said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) will end their defensive stance by the end of this week, criticizing the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
for "breaching" their commitments during the reduction in violence period.

Khalid, who appeared in a recorded video with the acting Minister of Interior Gen. Massoud Andarabi and the acting head of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
Ahmad Zia Saraj, said Afghan forces have given sacrifices in Taliban attacks during reduction in violence.

Figures by the Afghan government show that 22 security force members and nine non-combatants were killed in security incidents, mostly Taliban attacks, in 12 provinces during the weeklong reduction in violence from February 21 to February 28.

"Up until this moment that I am speaking, Afghan forces have been in defense mode respecting the (US-Taliban) deal and following the president’s decree... We will stay in defense mode until the end of this week, otherwise, we will chase the enemy anywhere in any hideout they are," Khalid said. "The current status (of the Taliban) is not acceptable to Afghan cops."

Khalid said the plan was to end the reduction in violence with a ceasefire but the Taliban "did not abide by the agreement" by continuing their attacks.

"Regrettably, the reduction in violence week, we could not reach a ceasefire and the enemy continued their attacks in different parts of the country in which there were military and civilian casualties," he said.

Figures show that during reduction in violence week, Kandahar, Kabul, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Uruzgan, Balkh, Kapisa, Samangan, Farah, Ghazni, Pashtun-infested Logar and Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
provinces faced security incidents.

According to a TOLOnews hotline, the highest number of security incidents during the reduction in violence week was eight in a day, while the lowest was two.

At the end of the reduction in violence week, the US and the Taliban signed an agreement in Doha, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, on February 29 while a joint Afghan-US declaration was announced in Kabul on the same day. Based on these two documents, the intra-Afghan talks should begin on March 10.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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