Dustom warns Taliban of revenge

Afghanistan vice president, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum says he will take the revenge of Kabul’s recent suicide attack from Taliban in Jawzjan.

Gen. Dostum once again prepared to eradicate the armed Taliban group and the Khanqa district of Jawzjan province is his first target.

Dostum noted that he will go to Sar-e Pul after clearing the Jawzjan province and is ready to go to Kunduz for another operation.

“We will pursue Taliban where they have retreat and hidden and will give the revenge of all our innocent people,” first vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum said.

General Dostum has mustered his own militia to defend northern province but is waiting to get green light from president

Since early spring, Afghanistan’s north has borne the brunt of an intensified Taliban offensive, buoyed by an unusually high influx of foreign fighters, including Uzbeks and Chinese Uighurs.

Perhaps Ghani has tried to assuage the concerns of his Pashtun supporters who loathe the idea of bringing a man they see as a mass killer to power.

One of the most notorious of Afghanistan’s war hardened strongmen, Dostum is perhaps best remembered by opponents and human rights organisations for his ruthless militia which plundered and raped during the civil war, and for allowing hundreds of Taliban prisoners to suffocate in shipping containers