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Taliban Unprecedentedly Step Up Attacks in Key Provinces of Afghanistan
The armed Taliban group has step up attacks in Kunduz, Baghlan, Farah and Helmand provinces, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said.
MoI says the Afghan security forces have witnessed heavy and difficult clashes in the battlefields.
“Kunduz, Baghlan and Helmand were the main provinces that the armed Taliban group has focused more and the priorities of security forces were thwarting these attacks,” said Najibullah Danish, deputy spokesman of MoI.
According to MoI, the Taliban group is trying to use all efforts and forces to disturb the overall security of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, a number of parliament representatives considered the reason for the recent insecurities the negligence of government officials.
“Farah is on the brink, so serious efforts should be done for suppressing the Taliban group,” said Muhammad Sarwar Osmani, representative of Farah.
Previously, a US official, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen said about Taliban attacks that in southern parts of Afghanistan’s provinces, particularly Helmand violence is up more than 60 percent.
Afghanistan now seems to be experiencing “a classic insurgency” that requires a well-coordinated counter-insurgency strategy that touches upon military, diplomatic, political and economic realms, Mullen said.
Afghan soldiers are taking the lead in more and more anti-insurgent operations, Mullen said. However, there’s been less success with the Afghan National Police, he acknowledged, as that force suffers from training deficiencies and corruption.
Training police forces is a skill that not too many countries do well, Mullen explained, and he said there’s a long way to go get Afghanistan’s police up on their feet.
This comes as numerous soldiers said the lack of coordination between security forces was the main reason for districts falling to the Taliban.
According to them, they have been fighting Taliban for days – with no coordination among themselves.
The soldiers blasted government for not providing them with enough ammunition and food and said the lack of coordination among the different security branches was the reason for the growing problem.
At least 18 people have died and two others have been injured following floods in Faryab province on Saturday night, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced Sunday.
The flash floods occurred in Pashtunkot, Almar, Qaisar, Belcheragh, Khyber and Dawlat Abad districts, the ministry said in a statement.
560 houses, 850 acres of agricultural land, 110 shops and a mobile clinic were destroyed as a result of the floods, according to the statement.
In addition, 300 livestock perished and 2,000 fruit trees were destroyed, the statement said.
This comes just a week after deadly floods left over 300 people dead in northern Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Justice announced Saturday that Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has approved the law on collection of beggars and preventing begging.
The law has three chapters and 27 articles, and is published in the official gazette of the Ministry of Justice.
According to the law, begging is prohibited for healthy and working people and those who can secure their one-day meal.
The law also prohibits the use of children and the disabled for begging.
According to the law, professional beggars who use a child or a mentally ill person or a disabled person for the purpose of begging, will be sentenced to one month in prison by the court, and their organizers will be sentenced to up to six months in prison.
In 2022, the leader of the Islamic Emirate ordered the collection of beggars. Tens of thousands of beggars have been rounded up so far.
The United States understands the importance of Chabahar Port for continued humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and to provide the country economic alternatives, India’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
India recently signed a 10-year agreement to develop and operate Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port as New Delhi aims to boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, bypassing ports in its western neighbour and arch foe Pakistan.
But the deal has prompted a thinly veiled threat of sanctions from the United States, with whom India has developed close economic and military ties in recent decades.
India’s foreign ministry spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, noted that since 2018, India has supplied 85,000 metric tons of wheat, 200 metric tons of pulses and 40,000 litres of pesticide Malathion to Afghanistan through Chabahar Port.
“The United States also has an understanding…understands the importance of Chabahar Port for continued humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and to provide Afghanistan economic alternatives,” he said in a press conference.
“Our External Affairs Minister also spoke on this matter in several forums recently, where he said that we should not take a narrow view of this particular project, it has an important role to play as far as the region is concerned, connectivity is concerned, particularly for the landlocked countries in the area,” he added.
He also said that Russia‘s special envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, met with an Indian delegation led by Joint Secretary, J.P. Singh, who looks after Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, in the Ministry of External Affairs, essentially exchange of views on the ground and the situation and how the two countries look at the situation.
He said that they emphasized on the need to provide development assistance and humanitarian support to the people of Afghanistan.
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