[ToloNews] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday that at least 40 people were killed and maimed in separate Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
attacks in nearly 10 provinces despite a previous commitment by the group to halt fighting during the three days of Eid ceasefire.
"Mullah Hibatullah (Taliban’s supreme leader) has no authority on all factions of the group and his loyalists are not abiding by his orders." Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said. "The Taliban violated the ceasefire in several areas and provinces and it caused casualties among civilians and military personnel."
Taliban has rejected the allegations and has blamed the government for not honoring its ceasefire commitments.
During the three days of Eid, violence reported in Kandahar, Ghazni, Kunduz, 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...
, Farah, Uruzgan, Kapisa, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Maidan Wardak provinces.
"Taliban are not committed to the ceasefire. The group does not follow any other path except shedding the blood of the innocent people," said Abdul Sattar Hussaini, a member of the Afghan parliament.
According to the data gathered by TOLOnews, Baghlan, Faryab, Takhar, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Balkh, Pashtun-infested Logar, Kapisa, Farah, Herat, 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...
, Maidan Wardak, Kapisa, Uruzgan, and Helmand witnessed fighting between the government forces and the Taliban.
In the latest incident of violence, one police force member and two civilians were maimed in a kaboom in Sarubi district in Kabul on Saturday morning.
A police vehicle was targeted by the blast.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!...
Badghis governor Hissamuddin Shams said "heavy attacks" by the Taliban in the province.
"Today, we had supply activities in Jawand district. Taliban were planning to attack our helicopter. Fortunately, their plan was foiled and six of them were eliminated," said Shams.
Taliban has said that those mines that were detonated during the ceasefire were planted before Eid days. 
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