...the Pashtun equivalent of men...were killed and 99 others were maimed in various Afghan National Defense and Security Forces’ operations over the past 24 hours.
The ministry added that ANDSF also captured 22 Death Eaters during the operations.
According to the newsletter, 95 different types of IEDs and landmines were discovered and defused by the Afghan cops.
The defense operations in which the Taliban suffered heavy casualties were conducted in 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...
, Kunar, Paktia, Wardak, Ghazni, Zabul, 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...
, Farah, Balkh, Samangan, Jawzjan, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Nimroz, Takhar, Kunduz, and Baghlan provinces.
This comes as violence in Afghanistan have raged following the US-Doha agreement and the confirmation of foreign troops’ withdrawal from the country.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Interior affairs warned administrators of social media and chat groups to remove suspicious people who are campaigning against the Afghan National Defense and Security forces.
Tariq Arian, a front man for MoI said the Ministry will inform administrators of WhatsApp groups and other newsgroups to remove anonymous, suspicious people, terrorists, and murderers.
He said a number of holy warriors have infiltrated some social media groups under the name of "Reporter" and are continuously spreading propaganda against ANDSF.
Arian added that intelligence units and operative teams are working on this matter, and administrators of such groups will be held accountable unless they don’t take action.
The Interior Ministry says the Taliban have resorted to new tactics to carry out acts of sabotage, and this time they want to move and detonate their mines by trucks.
The Interior Ministry also announced that Taliban have resorted to new tactics to carryout acts of sabotage.
Arian also informed the public to check their vehicles after parking and be aware wherever they park their vehicles.
MoI indicated that the Taliban this time wants to use trucks and place roadside kabooms and IEDs and in recent months many of the murderous Moslem group’s subversive activities were exposed to the public and security forces.
Moreover, Shahpoor Ahmadzai, police for PD1 of Pashtun-infested Logar’s capital was killed in an unidentified armed man attack on Monday evening.
The incident took place at Shahidan square in Pul-e-Alam city.
No group or individual grabbed credit for the attack.