 Deadly earthquake, deadly floods, deadly, unseasonal snowstorm — Allah is sending messages of his displeasure with the Taliban rulers loud and clear. [KhaamaPress] Twelve children and hundreds of livestock were killed on Wednesday night due to a heavy snowfall in the north-eastern province of Afghanistan, Kunar, according to the local Taliban
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officials.
In order to assist those in need, officials claim that emergency and medical teams have been sent to the site, according to Bakhtar state news agency.
The incident has happened in the Dara-e-Gul district of Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, on Wednesday night, when the northern provinces of Afghanistan experienced a heavy snowfall, in summer.
According to Qari Khair Mohammad Ghazi, the provincial Director of Disaster Management in the 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...
province, rescue teams have been dispatched to the area to save people who are trapped in the snow.
Eight family members were killed and three others injured, according to local sources in Kunar province, when a roof collapsed as a result of heavy snowfall.
Further information regarding the incident is not provided by Taliban officials or the state news agency Bakhtar.
Previously, locals in the Bamyan province of central Afghanistan expressed concern that heavy snowfall at this time of year would endanger livestock and harm crop yields.
The loss of lives in Kunar province comes as a high magnitude earthquake stuck Afghanistan’s Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
and Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
s leaving over 2,500 killed and injured. 
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