...mindless ferocity in a turban...attacks in northern 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...
and central Pashtun-infested Logar provinces on Tuesday night, local officials said on Wednesday.
Eleven Afghan cops were killed in festivities with the Taliban in Sar-e-Pul province in Sozma Qala and Sancharak districts when the Taliban attacked security checkpoints, said Zabihullah Amani, a front man for the provincial governor. "The festivities continued for three hours and most of the fighters came from Jawzjan province," Amani said.
The Taliban also took casualties but "we don’t have the exact number," he added.
A security source told TOLOnews on Wednesday afternoon that 19 police had been killed at the Mes Aynak Copper Mine in Pashtun-infested Logar province on Tuesday night, but earlier, Qadir Mufti, a front man for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, said eight security forces had been killed.
And in Kandahar, "at least 31 Taliban'"were killed in an attack on security checkpoints in Zherai, Meyanshen and Spin Boldak districts of Kandahar province on Tuesday night, Kandahar police confirmed on Wednesday, adding that "seven Afghan forces were also maimed in the attacks."
The Taliban has grabbed credit for Sar-e-Pul but has not commented on the attacks in Kandahar and Pashtun-infested Logar.