...the Pashtun equivalent of men...launched attacks and other "destructive activities" in 23 out of 34 provinces of the country in the last 24 hours.
One of their attacks was on the center of Maymay in the northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, where according to Hujjatullah Kheradmand, an MP from Badakhshan, at least 25 members of Afghan cops were killed and seven more are missing.
"The foreigners are leading the war in the border areas of Badakhshan, according to the reports we received from local people in Maymay, foreigners were also present. Their role was significant," the politician said.
He said that imported muscle provided big support to the Taliban in their attack on Maymay district.
"Some members of the security forces and the public uprising forces were martyred. Some of them had their heads chopped off after being arrested, which is a war crime and crime against humanity," Badakhshan governor Zakaria Sawda said.
Also in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said on Friday that at least two non-combatants were killed and 20 others were maimed in a magnetic IED blast in the province.
"Two of coppers were also martyred. Our reserved forces arrived at the scene and then the Taliban fled the area," Badakhshan police front man Jawed Besharat said.
"The brave Afghan National Security and Defense Forces repelled and foiled plots by the enemy. They also inflicted massive toll to the enemy," said Rohullah Ahmadzai, front man for the Ministry of Defense.
Sources on Thursday said that the Taliban has staged attacks on the centers of at least 50 districts in 16 provinces of the country following the signing of the peace deal with the US in Doha in February and most of these attacks happened in the last two months after the start of the negotiations in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
on September 12.
Violence has intensified in various parts of the country despite ongoing efforts in Doha by negotiating teams of the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Afghanistan and the Taliban.