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2021-05-10 Afghanistan
Taliban ‘utilized their full strength’ to take strategic areas
[KhaamaPress] Acting Minister of Defense General Yasin Zia in a presser on Saturday said that the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
utilized their full strength in the past week to some of the strategic areas in some six provinces of Afghanistan, but ANDSF foiled and rebuffed all their planning.

Zia added that over 1,000 Taliban fighters have been killed and maimed while encountering Afghan National Defense and Security forces in Kandahar, Helmand

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...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Farah, Baghlan, and 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...
provinces during this period.

But he did not provide any details on ANDSF casualties, and the Taliban also denied Zia’s claims.

Ahmad Zia Saraj, chief of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
on his turn assured that the Taliban won’t be able to reach power militarily, he added the "enemy" used its full strength and increased pressures on ANDSF, but they don’t "have more power than this".

He added that most the Taliban attacks and offensive programs are "planned in Pakistain, especially in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
According to Zia a limited number of babus government employees trying to cooperate with the Taliban will also be dealt with.

In the meantime, National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said, that all of the groups intending to fight against "terrorism" and the Taliban in Afghanistan must be formed and led under the Afghan military.

The international community including the United States will continue its supports to Afghanistan after the withdrawal process is completed, Mohib said.

Meanwhile in the past days at least 27 security forces were killed in Ghazni province.

According to sources, three government check posts were also fallen to the holy warrior group.

Moreover, the Ministry of Defense in a released communique on Sunday said that at least 18 Taliban including three Pak nationals were killed and 15 others were maimed in the Shaliz area in the outskirts of Ghazni’s provincial center.

The area was cleared of the Taliban influence, and their hideouts and strongholds were also destroyed.This comes as the corpse count from an attack on girls’ school on Saturday has reached 58 and at least 150 civilians were maimed according to the Ministry of Interior.

Most of the victims were children and school girls in the incident.

No one grabbed credit for the incident, but the Presidential Place in Afghanistan blamed the attack on the Taliban, and called it "a crime against humanity".

Taliban on the other hand denied being involved in the attack.

The brutal attacks in Afghanistan have become painfully a common thing, a nation rattled with terrifying violence, suicide kabooms, rocket barrages, and massive truck bombs for many years.

Head of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission tweeted that "I have lost count of attacks on education. I have lost count of civilians killed even just this month. This war must stop. This madness, this hurt, this pain."

She also said that "Denials & condemnations don’t stop the bloodshed or save lives. CEASEFIRE can".

According to New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

, at least 44 civilians and 139 government forces were killed in Afghanistan in the past week, the highest corpse count since October of the last year.

Abdul Salam Hanafi a member of the Taliban’s 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...
office and member of the group’s peace negotiating team in an interview during the initial stages of intra-Afghan talks had said that "100 percent ceasefire" proved that there are no other opposing armed forces rather than the Taliban in the region.
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