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23 Civilians Killed Last Week: NSC
[ToloNews] The National Security Council (NSC) on Saturday released data on civilian casualties, saying 23 non-combatants were killed and 45 others were maimed in Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
violence over the last week.

The Taliban has not responded.

Figures by the National Security Council indicate that 16 provinces of the country have witnessed 284 attacks by the Taliban in the last seven days.

NSC front man Javed Faisal said in a tweet that "the Taliban continue to take the lives of civilians in Afghanistan" and that "this violent mostly peaceful phase of attacks on civilians can only deteriorate the already shaken trust on the will of the Taliban."

According to data from the NSC, the violence happened in 16 provinces, including Kabul, Kandahar, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
and Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
This comes a day after an official of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights (AIHRC) called for practical steps by the Taliban to reduce violence.

Abdullah Abdullah
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation who with a speech closed a consultative meeting on peace with envoys from 20 countries, on Thursday called the level of violence by the Taliban unacceptable and urged for efforts to move the grinding of the peace processor forward.

Statistics by AIHRC show that 86,823 non-combatants were killed and maimed in 2019 in Afghanistan.

But a Taliban front man has claimed that the attacks initiated by the group have reduced by 60 percent. In the US-Taliban deal, the Taliban committed to not attack cities and highways in the country.

Critics say that Taliban violence will continue at least until the US elections in November, because of the uncertainty of the fate of the US-Taliban deal signed in February.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-12
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