The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the security forces conducted 15 joint and 97 special operations or tasks to suppress the bully boy groups.
Furthermore, the Afghan Air Force conducted 11
...KABOOM!...
s to support the ground forces.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operations in Pashtun-infested Logar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Ghazni, Faryab, Uruzgan, Ghor, Balkh, Kapisa, Zabul, Takhar, Kunar, 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..
, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, which is apparently Olde Macedonian for
Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, 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...
and Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...provinces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
the defense ministry said the security forces killed 65 turbans during the operations.
Furthermore, the ministry of defense said the security forces also maimed 28 turbans during the same operations.
In addition, the security forces arrested a suspected bully boy during the operations.
The Ministry of Defense also added that the coalition forces also provided support to the Afghan cops during the operations.
The anti-government armed turbans including Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
have not commented regarding the operations so far.