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Afghanistan

Critics See 'No Change' on Battlefields Despite Recent Reshuffles

2021-07-24

[ToloNews] Two politicians and military experts on Friday raised their deep apprehensions over the Taliban
Taliban

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’s continued advances in various regions of the country, saying there has been no change on the ground despite the recent reshuffles in the country’s security entities.

A month ago, 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...
announced the appointment of Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi as acting minister of defense, Gen. Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal as acting minister of interior and Gen. Mohammad Wali Ahmadzai as Chief of Army Staff.

MPs argued that 70 districts, 6 customs and border towns were fallen to the Taliban since the appointment of new security chiefs over the last month.

"It would be quite difficult for them (new security officials) to bring a sudden change. These discussions should have started at least one year or one and half years ago," said Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of the NDS.

"There has been no positive change on the ground with the arrival of these officials due to the large intensity of the war," said MP Mir Haidar Afzali.

Military experts said there is a need for unity and better coordination within the nation’s security agencies and in the leadership level to fix the fragile security situation.

But officials from the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the Ministry of Defense said security forces managed to retake 20 districts from the Taliban since the appointment of the acting defense and interior minister and that there were better mobilization of forces in the fight against the holy warriors.

"They suddenly started fighting in 400 points across the country. In some cases, there were negligence or issues weren’t addressed and then there were some tactical retreats," said Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal, acting minister of interior.

"We tried to remobilize and support. We have identified the priorities, we will use all available resources to defend the people, the cities and the districts where we are deployed now," said Mohammadi.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 ^
An opinionated wannabe tyrant,
like a dog looking for a hydrant.
Don't ask him to tell you
or he'll surely yell you,
or himself into a state expirant.

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-07-24 10:47

#2 Don't sugarcoat it, Dron. Tell us what you really think ;-)

Posted by: Frank G 2021-07-24 08:46

#1 How can they not have lost?

Afghanistan is hideously moslem to its core. The government can only recruit Afghans not Danes or Japs can they?

When half of your force is ideologically inseparable from the what the Taliban stands for, and the other half are corrupt and selfishly motivated, what is the point of fighting? When all of your society leans towards the same ideas and rationales, what do the AFG forces really fight for? Freedom from shariah? They already have shariah!Self determination? The moslemness of AFG's liberals in only a thin line of intensity away from full sasquatch anyway.

There are only a thousand or less christians in Afghanistan and they have to hide in attics and tunnels to pray.

I'll tell you what the fight is for. The bid was to try and establish a foreign funded socialist utopia for Afghan bureaucrats, politicians and officials. A parliament of men posturing as 'moderate islamics' for the west to leech as much moolah as neighboring Pakistain has from the world banks for 'development'. A gravy train, that sweet goose that every third world leadership so desires. Every penny of that anyway was going to go into secret accounts and property in islam infested liberal countries, or in go-bags for when the next violent coup occurs. Because it woulda remained an islamic nation in either case, don't forget that.

The Taliban had seen the extent of western civilizational confidence after 9/11 already and they chose to reign in their hell rather than serve in some promised socialist heaven. Imagine their morale when friends of Bin Laden sat across the tables from Washington officials at Doha. We in the east knew they had won even then.

Pakistain fueled and aided their madness, aiming to control them later to extort China long term, piggybacking on others' muscle and interests to fund their own jihad in Asia and the EU.

Almost everyone in Asia who knows moslems and moslemness sees this, and most in the ⭔ know too, but will not say it out loud. What their grand vision was, why they chose to burn trillions of their citizens' dollars in a foregone conflict, I suppose no one will ever know.

Posted by: Dron66046 2021-07-24 04:24

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