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Afghanistan

Ghani Visits Herat to Review Security Situation

2021-07-20

[ToloNews] President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
, leading a delegation of government officials, traveled to 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...
province on Monday morning to review the security situation, the Presidential Palace said.

President Ghani met with Mohammad Ismail Khan,

...one of the Northern Alliance/Jamiat-e Islami warlords, the Herat Tajik was an Afghan National Army captain under the Communists, mujahideen commander against the Soviets, twice governor of Herat province — first for the mujahideen, then after the Taliban were defeated — and finally Hamid Karzai’s Minister of Energy and Water. He no doubt expected that at 75 he would be sitting back and enjoying less active maneuvers as an elder statesman. Instead he stood up a local unit of the People's Resistance® Front, with plans to be formidable...

former mujahedeen leader, and discussed the current situation in Herat and support for the security forces, the Palace said.

The president met with local civilian and security officials in the province and discussed the security situation in the western region, the statement said.

President Ghani’s trip to Herat comes as 17 out of 19 districts in Herat, including the Islam Qala dry port, have fallen to the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
"Most of the districts fell to the Taliban recently without any fighting," according to the security sources.

Afghan government only has control of the Injil district and Gul Dara district in the province.

Government security officials recently said that they have plans to retake areas that have fallen to the Taliban, but security sources in Herat said that so far no operations have been launched to push back the Taliban.

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