President Ghani set a delegation to investigate Kundoz disaster

Afghanistan Presidential Citadel determined a special delegation to investigate the Kundoz disaster, to study the fall of Kunduz and that security and government officials found responsible would be punished.

President’s deputy spokesman, Zafar Hashimi says that the special delegation includes tribal elders, national and government figures to identify those who negligence in Kundoz incident.

The Taliban has captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last Monday, as government security forces fully retreated to the city’s outlying airport.

The Taliban’s sudden victory marked the first time the militant group has seized a major city since 2001.

With the collapse of Kundoz, the opposition group has also claimed to have freed hundreds of inmates from the city’s prison.

Meanwhile, Afghan security forces announced of recapturing the major parts of the Kundoz province.

Senior security officials in Kundoz say that the armed Taliban will not be able to show their presence in the province and they will even follow them into villages.

As Taliban entrenched against Afghan forces, clashes were still underway between government forces and the Taliban on the city’s outskirts.

In Kunduz, the Taliban were deploying a variety of tactics, including using the homes of locals to hide and wearing Afghan security force uniforms to confuse their enemies. Although there were scattered reports of some Taliban leaving the city, it appeared that many were still there.

In the first hours of the Taliban’s consolidation of control, many residents hid in their homes in fear. But others wandered the streets to gawk at the city’s new conquerors. Some even described holding on to hopes that the Taliban would bring order to a city long plagued by feuding militias and gangsterism.

But now residents of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz began venturing out of their homes as calm returned to the streets after Taliban blitz last week Kundoz for three days.