...the Pashtun equivalent of men...used their highest strength in the past week to takeover some strategic areas in at least six provinces of the country, but security forces repelled their offensives and foiled all their planning and military agendas.
General Yasin Zia, the Afghan Chief of Army Staff and Acting Minister of Defense, said that over 1,000 Taliban fighters have been killed and maimed in encounter with the Afghan cops during this period in Kandahar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Farah, 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 Baghlan provinces.
Zia however did not provide any detail about the casualties among the government forces.
But the Taliban have rejected their casualties.