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Kunduz-Takhar Highway Cleared Of Taliban
[Tolo News] The Kunduz-Takhar Highway was cleared of Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men... on Friday following heavy festivities between government forces and the group’s fighters in past eight days, the Northeast Zone Police said in a statement. Mahfoozullah Akbari, front man for the Northeast Zone Police, said that Khwaja and Katakhail police outposts along the highway were taken out of the turbans’ siege in the military operation conducted by Afghan security and defense forces. He said they had equipped police outposts along the Kunduz-Takhar Highway after they cleared the area of Taliban. The road from Kunduz city to Khanabad district in Kunduz province is closed to traffic for past eight days due to heavy festivities between security forces and Taliban. "The government forces were connected to each other from the two sides ‐ Takhar and Kunduz provinces - at 12:45pm on Friday," Akbari said in the statement. According to him, at least six Taliban fighters were killed and four others were maimed in Thursday night festivities in the province. He said civilians were not allowed to travel through the highway due to the existence of mines, adding that the forces are busy in reopening the highway to traffic by Friday evening. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) office in Kunduz said that Ahmad Shah, a Taliban Überstürmbannführer, was killed with his 11 fighters in an An NDS official in Kunduz said that at least 30 Taliban fighters including their commander was killed in recent festivities in Khanabad district in the province. On Thursday local security officials in Kunduz said mines planted by the Taliban and the group’s use of civilian houses as shields was slowing down their operations to clear the province of Death Eaters. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-13 |
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