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MoI: Afghan Forces To Launch Fresh Winter-Offensive Against Insurgents
As war games go, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) says that the Afghan National Army and Police forces movements will increase against terrorists in winter season.
Officials in MoI declared that with Afghan flags rippling in every parts of the country, the military operations will be more in those areas that the insurgents have presence.
“Our movements will increase in the winter season which most of them would be in areas that have previously witnessed insurgent attacks,” Sidiq Sidiqi, MoI spokesman said.
The current year was a bloody and deadly year for Afghanistan that the armed Taliban group tired to launch more of its attacks on the villages and districts of the country.
The 2015 fighting season between the Taliban and Afghan security forces is turning out to be the bloodiest on record since 2001.
Insecurity has significantly increased throughout the country, civilian deaths have shot up, and the Afghan security forces are taking large, and potentially unsustainable casualties.
The pressure from the calendar apparently led Afghanistan to begin preparing operation plans for the three months winter-offensive.
Heavy snows and freezing temperatures could arrive as soon as next two months.
Meanwhile, Afghan army commanders have also stress on winter operations to destroy and eliminate terrorist groups.
“We have our own projections and our operational plans in three months of winter season,” said Gen. Abdul Rahman, deputy of defense ministry’s department of strategic public relations.
However, winter will paralyze movement by most Afghans in the hills, including both the anti-Taliban fighters and the millions of Afghan civilians who are liable to face acute hardship or death in a harsh winter coming after the longest drought in the country’s memory.
In October 2015, President Barack Obama announced to keep around 5,500 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016.
This comes as the Afghan government tries to wind down its military operations against terrorist groups; which Afghanistan’s future remains precarious at best.
Reported by Marofa Zaki
Edited by Muhammad Zakaria
Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, the political deputy prime minister, said Wednesday in a meeting with a number of elders, scholars and youths of the Hazara ethnic group in Kabul that justice in light of Islamic Sharia is applied equally to everyone.
The deputy PM’s office said in a statement that Kabir stressed that discrimination and prejudice have no place in the Islamic system, but the main goal is to serve the people.
“There is no place for ethnic, sectarian and linguistic prejudices and hypocrisy in Afghanistan. All Afghans should work together for the construction, development and prosperity of Afghanistan,” the statement read.
At the gathering, elders and scholars of the Hazara community demanded resolutions regarding their legal cases and other problems and assured the IEA of comprehensive cooperation with the Islamic system, the statement added.
Eight security force members were killed and wounded in an IED explosion in Badakhshan province on Wednesday morning, officials confirmed.
The Ministry of Interior said three policemen died and five others were wounded in the explosion.
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, said: “Unfortunately, at around 11:00 AM today, a sticky mine (magnetic IED) that was already embedded in a motorcycle exploded in the Jawozon area of Faizabad city, Badakhshan province.”
According to Qani the device detonated while a convoy of police was traveling through the area. Police had been carrying out a poppy clearing operation.
Police are investigating the incident, Qani said.
So far, no group or individual has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Khurasan Faryab defeated Istiqlal Kabul 1-0 in the 35th match of Afghanistan Champions League (ACL) in Kabul on Tuesday, while Sorkh Poshan Khafi thrashed Sarsabz Yashlar 4-1 in the 36th match of the tournament on the same day.
Khurasan’s only goal against Istiqlal Kabul was scored by Farid Ahmad – who was declared man of the match.
In the second match of the day, Sorkh Poshan Khafi’s four goals were scored by Habibullah Hotak and Omid Rajabi.
Khurasan’s Habibullah Hotak received the man of the match award.
Wednesday’s matches will see Abu Muslim Farah FC take on Adalat Farah FC at 1 PM, while Maiwand FC will play Jawanan Wahedi FC at 3:30 PM.
The matches are broadcast live on Ariana Television.
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