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students...
and other murderous Moslem groups are refraining to agree on a ceasefire despite repeated calls by the Afghan government, the international community and the members of the public.
Figures compiled by Anadolu Agency suggests that an additional 300 civilians were maimed in a series of IED blasts, suicide kabooms, assassinations in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Ghazni, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Jawzjan, Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Ghor, Badghis, Zabul, 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...
, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul
...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...
, Kapisa, Baghlan, Maidan Wardak, and Kabul provinces in Ramadan which started on May 6.
The last two days of Ramadan, June 2 and 3 witnessed five IED blasts which left seven people dead and more than 20 others maimed. In a recent incident on Monday, June 3, an IED kaboom targeted employees of the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission, leaving five dead.
The Anadolu News Agency’s research shows that Kabul city alone was rocked by three terrorist attacks in the last week of May, killing six soldiers and five civilians, while injuring over 20 civilians.
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
Ghazni remained the most volatile province of all 34 provinces in the country this month, the report says.
According to the report, during Ramadan, 33 Afghan children and 14 women were killed, while 34 more children and 9 women got injured in different violent incidents.
The Taliban refused to agree on a ceasefire during the month of Ramadan instead, they increased their attacks.
On June 2, the group captured Bala Murghab district in northwestern Badghis province and set on fire the district governor’s office as well as the police headquarters as a member of the Badghis Provincial Council described.
On June 1, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement that more than 100 Taliban fighters, most of them from the so-called red unit of the group, were killed in Afghan Army operations in Ghazni province in the center of Afghanistan. A day after the operation, a Humvee bombing targeted a security facility in the province which reportedly had some casualties.
This comes as presidential candidate and former head of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
, Rahmatullah Nabil, said at a presser on Sunday, June 1, that the Taliban does not believe in peace and democracy and that the group is seeking power in Afghanistan.