Afghans armed to prevent Taliban’s overrun in Pul-e Khomri

The armed Taliban group have reached near the Pul-e Khomri city and people have armed to prevent Taliban’s overrun to the city.

A number of uprising forces leaders in Pul-e Khomri city ciritisized government’s measures against Taliban, saying according to an agreement government forces do not shoot on Taliban.

After the collapse of Kundoz, Pul-e Khomri city was another target of Taliban that they had eye in it.

It has been few days which Baghlan inhabitants do not have security and several villages have been captured by the armed Taliban group.

Taliban fighters are expanding the fight to other northern provinces after Afghan government troops backed by NATO special forces evicted them from the centre of the strategic city of Kunduz.

The Taliban has been fighting to remove the Western-backed government in Kabul since its removal in 2001.

When a few hundred Taliban advanced on Kunduz at dawn on 28 September, they met little opposition from the estimated 7,000 government forces stationed there.

By midday they had captured half the city, freed hundreds from jail, looted banks, government buildings and UN and Red Cross offices, and set up the first Taliban administration in a large Afghan city since their defeat by US forces in 2001.

Afghan security forces have been left mostly on their own since the NATO withdrawal last year, although a smaller mission has remained to train and advise them, while US drone attacks still target militant leaders. An American counter-terrorist force is also deployed in the country.