| The announcement was last Friday, 12 April. It sounds like all parties involved have been busy since then. |
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, and Faryab provinces.
The statement further added that 77
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, Talibs intensified their attacks in northern parts of the country after announcing their spring offensive but the Afghan armed forces effective responded and repulsed the attacks with the resistance of the ground forces and
s carried out by the Air Forces.The 209th Shaheen Corps also confirmed that 7 security personnel also bit the dust during the festivities and 11 others sustained injuries but the civilians have not suffered casualties so far.
The anti-government armed
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students...
have not commented regarding the report so far.