...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...
on Thursday met with residents of Faryab and Sar-e-Pul provinces where he said any soldier that neglects in their duty will face legal action by relevant organizations.
"We implement the law on all the military personnel. No matter who they are. If they are police chief or head of security or anyone else, we ask them about the security situation and we have the authority to punish them," Dostum said.
| Trust me, officer, you don't want Dostum unhappy with your policing tactics... |
"Taliban should be fully uprooted from Kunduz. I will not return to 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....
until Kunduz is not cleared [of the Lion of Islam group]," he added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was wondering if Buck was okay. He suspected he wasn't...
Dostum said Pakistain's Chief of Army Staff (Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
) is behind the increase in insecurity in Afghanistan.
"Pakistain's chief of army staff, who is going to retire within the next few weeks, is behind the conflicts in Afghanistan. He orders the war and it is good that he is about to retire and someone else is going to replace him," Dostum stated.
Dostum's remarks on Pakistain come at a time that according to reports, Pakistain has recently tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
a few senior members of Taliban, including Mullah Ahmadullah Nani, in the outskirts of Quetta, the placid provincial capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
.