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| Taliban may take over Afghan districts in summer |
| 2007-04-06 |
| The security situation in Afghanistan’s districts bordering Pakistan is restive, particularly in Kamdesh district, which is close to the border, said Tamim Nurestani, the governor of Afghanistan’s eastern Nurestan province, in a report monitored by BBC. “We believe that the Taliban will launch an operation there in the summer. According to our intelligence reports, the enemies and the Taliban will come to Nurestan province from Helmand and Kandahar provinces to fight. As you know, it is a mountainous province and they approach some roads from the valleys ... they mistreat people for one or two hours or plant mines,” said the governor in the report. Nurestan is one of the eastern provinces of Afghanistan, and has a 240-kilometre border with Pakistan. The report said that a number of districts of Nurestan province were at the risk of being captured by the Taliban. It said if military forces of the government and NATO did not pay attention to this crisis, the districts bordering Pakistan would be captured by the Taliban. Tamim Nurestani said that a number of Taliban fighters had settled in most of the regions and valleys of the province, and were regularly threatening security in the region. According to the governor of Nurestan, the Taliban intend to send their fighters to his province to create unrest in the eastern provinces of Panjsher and Badakhshan in the summer. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 In Panjsher? Massood's power base? I don't dount tehy will send fighters there, what I doubt is if they will return. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-04-06 10:42 |