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2020-03-06 Afghanistan
Afghan Govt: Taliban Attacks Decreasing
[ToloNews] Although official numbers are not in from the Afghan government or military, TOLOnews' Whatsapp reporting line only received notifications of three attacks, in Kapisa, 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...
and Farah, on Thursday, March 5.

For the previous day, Wednesday, March 4, the reported Taliban
...Arabic for students...
attacks were down to 11, according to Nusrat Rahimi, a front man for the Ministry of Interior. Rahimi said there were 11 fatalities--both Afghan forces and civilians--in that time.

And the above numbers are a dramatic decrease from March 1-3, which was 76 reported attacks, with 30 Afghan soldiers and four civilians killed, as reported by Jawed Faisal, a spokesperson from the National Security Adviser's office.

"The Taliban had attacked 76 in the first three days of March--that is in contradiction with the deal," said Jawed Faisal, front man for the Office of National Security Advisor.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-03-06 01:07|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top
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