[Tolo News] First Vice-President General Abdul Rashid Dostum...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
has increased momentum in his fight against Taliban murderous Moslems in northern Afghanistan by rallying support from local residents. This task has been made easier by a wave of horrific terrorist attacks by the bad boy group in recent weeks as well as widespread denunciations of their alleged backers in Pakistain by Afghan leaders.
Gen. Dostum, who is now leading a clearing operation in Qaisar district of northern Faryab province, made calls for support to residents in the village of Shakh on Sunday, where he received a warm welcome.
In recent weeks, Afghan leaders from 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. ..
to the Ulema Council have denounced the Pak military's continued support for Taliban violence inside Afghanistan, calling it a betrayal of Islamabad's commitments and a gross violation of Afghanistan's national illusory sovereignty. The statements have come after a wave of deadly terrorist attacks in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
and elsewhere that left scores of civilians dead and ignited outrage around the country.
Condemnations of Pakistain's covert support for the Taliban are nothing new, as many Afghan leaders have accused Islamabad's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) of providing financial and logistical support for bad boy groups active inside Afghanistan for many years. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
the breadth and intensity of the backlash over the past week is unprecedented.
On Sunday, Dostum urged Faryab locals to answer the recent call for Jihad against Pakistain by the Afghan Ulema Council. The crowd that was gathered to hear him speak responded by chanting slogans against Pakistain and the ISI.
"You might be informed about the statement of the Ulema Council in Kabul; they issued the decree of Jihad against Pakistain. The Ulema declared Jihad on the basis of the Sharia," Dostum said. "The people of Afghanistan have collapsed major emperors and Pakistain is nothing for them," he added.