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Afghanistan: Taliban 'take centre of Helmand district'
[BBC] The centre of another district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... has fallen to the Taliban, officials say. The snuffies are reported to have taken over the police headquarters in Sangin, with fighting continuing in other parts of the district. Earlier, the deputy governor of Helmand complained of a lack of government support in an open letter on Facebook to President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar warned that the province could fall to the Taliban. He said at least 90 soldiers had been killed in the latest fighting and claimed Mr Ghani's entourage was not telling him the reality of the situation. "Helmand will collapse to the enemies and it's not like Kunduz, where we could launch an operation from the airport to retake it. That is just impossible and a dream," he said. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-21 |
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