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Operation Launched in Uruzgan to Repel Taliban Advance
Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Tuesday said that a large-scale military operation is underway in Uruzgan to repel insurgents' attacks on some key areas.The operation started following reports of a Taliban takeover of a number of army check points in Chora district of the province. Meanwhile, a number of sources have said that at least 41 army soldiers had surrendered to the Taliban along with their weapons, but the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has said that the credibility of such reports needs to be verified. Soldiers deployed in Dehrawood and Charchenoi districts of Uruzgan have warned over a possible siege of their military units. They have also complained about the lack of ammunition. "Problems exist, there are attacks by the enemy, but our forces are continuing their mission over there," a defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said. "Chora district is now under siege, Trenkot center of Uruzgan is also under siege, our humble request from the ministry of defense is that do you want the Taliban to capture Chora ... so act now before they infiltrate into the area," said senator Hanif Hanafi. In addition to this, members of parliament from Uruzgan have said that the scale of threats in the province is much bigger than the statistics presented by the security officials. "Fatalities among our soldiers in Kandahar, Nangarhar and Uruzgan is a very concerning issue to the entire people of Afghanistan," said first deputy of senate Farhad Sakhi. Similar reports surfaced in the media in the past about the surrendering of army officers to the Taliban. But one of the complaints lodged against government regarding these issues is that the government, despite making commitments to investigate the issues, never shared the outcome of these investigations with the people. Posted by: badanov 2016-11-02 |
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