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| Afghanistan |
| Heavy fighting continues in Kunduz |
| 2016-04-19 |
| [DAWN] Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday as Death Eaters stepped up their bid to retake the northern city that they had captured briefly last year. The attacks on Kunduz, involving hundreds of krazed killers, have intensified days after the Taliban announced the start of their annual ’spring offensive’, aimed at driving out the Western-backed government 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.... Attacks overnight appeared aimed at cutting off Chardara district on the southwest outskirts of the city, with several checkpoints targeted, Kunduz police chief Qasim Jangalbagh said. "They wanted to cut the road which connects the district to Kunduz city to stop us sending reinforcements," he said. Urban warfare causes spike in child, women casualties, says UN In addition, he said a major attack was driven back at Charkh Ab, to the east, as the Taliban sought to stretch the city’s defences. Kunduz police claimed 49 Taliban fighters had been killed and another 61 injured, while the defence ministry said 38 were killed and 13 maimed over the past 24 hours. A police front man said four members of the security forces were killed and 11 injured. Kunduz public health director Saad Mukhtar said six dead and 107 maimed had been brought to city hospitals over the past three days, which have been put under heavy strain by the destruction of the hospital run by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in a US air strike last year. The fall of Kunduz last year followed months of attacks that began in the spring. The attacks weakened security forces before Taliban fighters seized the city centre at the end of September, holding it for two weeks before pulling out. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... officials have made a major effort to reassure residents that there would be no repeat of last year’s demoralising collapse. The heavy fighting around Kunduz, Afghanistan’s fifth-biggest city underlines the concern highlighted in the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ’ latest report on civilian casualties, which pointed to a sharp rise in the number of children killed or injured as a consequence of combat in built-up areas. |
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