...the Pashtun equivalent of men...fighters were killed in Ghazni and 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, wich 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...
provinces.
MoD in a released statement said that Afghan cops backed by air support clashed with the Talibs in Muqur, Gilan districts of Ghazni province, and in Raheen and Gomba areas of Alishsheng district in Laghman province.
The bulletin noted 20 Taliban fighters were killed in Ghazni and 12 others were killed in Laghman province. Six Taliban fighters were also reported injured in Ghazni province, and their weapons and ammunition were destroyed by the ANDSF.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard...
Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid tweeted that an Afghan cops convoy was hit by IED in the Tasang area of Deh Yak district in Ghazni province. The Taliban ambushed the convoy on Saturday in which three APCs were destroyed, 3 security force members killed and another was injured.
This comes as MoD tweeted that 90 Taliban fighters were killed and 17 others were maimed in Laghman, 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..
, Wardak, Badghis, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Kandahar province of Afghanistan during the past 24 hours.
According to the statement, the Taliban suffered casualties due to reciprocal operations conducted by the Afghan national defense and security forces.
MoD further wrote that ANDSF discovered 37 IEDs, and a large number of weapons and ammunition belonging to the Taliban were also destroyed.
A Taliban boom-mobileing incident was thwarted by Afghan special forces in Kandahar province. Taliban planned to carry out a boom-mobileing attack in Panjwai district of Kandahar province on Saturday night. The Afghan commandos were able to stop the attack in time before the Taliban jacket wallah could detonate the explosive-laden vehicle.