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2021-07-03 Afghanistan
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MoI to Probe Govt Forces Withdrawal from Districts' Centers
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[ToloNews] Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) will probe recent evacuations by government forces from the centers of various districts across the country.
Over the last two months, the Taliban
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has taken over dozens of districts across Afghanistan, raising strong criticisms among the public and analysts who are citing poor leadership and mismanagement of the war as key reason that the Taliban has taken over large swaths of land in the country.
Reports say that in some districts as instances in Shireen Tagab and Pashtun Kot and Qaisar districts of Faryab, and Qarabagh and Muqur districts of Ghazni, hundreds of security force members surrendered to the Taliban without any resistance.
"There is speculation that the security forces were asked not to fight, but it is not confirmed who said this," said MP Khan Agha Rezaee.
In the past two months Taliban has taken control of more than 120 districts.
| In the past two months Taliban has taken control of more than 120 districts. |
"Investigation is underway to find out the main reason," said Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, the acting minister of interior.
Referring to the factors behind the evacuations, the Ministry of Defense said that lack of equipment and delay in the delivery of emergency assistance to the security forces are among the factors that have led to the problem.
"We evacuated some areas in order to prevent casualties among civilians and military personnel, and to prevent the damage to residential areas and delay in on time delivery of supplies to our personnel," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, front man for the Ministry of Defense.
Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of Afghan intelligence agency, said that the Taliban is seeking to takeover some strategic and important areas.
"The Taliban want to expand fighting in central provinces and to take control over the supply routes to Kabul and then go to the negotiating table where they will make major demands, and if their demands not met, they will focus on other objectives they seek," said Nabil.
Taliban significantly increased their offensive after foreign troops started withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Prior to the Taliban
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offensive, which began in earnest on May 1, the date that the U.S. government originally committed to completing its withdraw under the Doha agreement, the Taliban controlled 73 of Afghanistan’s 407 districts, and contested 210, according to an ongoing assessment by FDD’s Long War Journal. The Biden administration moved the withdraw date to Sept. 11, 2021, the 20-year anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attack on American soil — which it plotted and executed largely from Afghanistan.
The Taliban began to seize territory once the May 1 deadline expired, and as of June 29, 2021, now controls 157 districts. Much of the Taliban gains are in the north, and that has put multiple scenic provincial capitals under threat. Taliban fighters have entered the cities of Kunduz and Pul-e-Khumri and are on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif and Taloqan. Other scenic provincial capitals, such as Maimana and Faizabad, are under direct Taliban threat.
The Taliban has largely gained ground in districts that were previously contested. The number of contested districts dropped from 210 on May 1 to 157 today. However,
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at least 10 districts flipped entirely from government controlled to Taliban controlled without ever being labeled as contested. 
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