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Afghanistan

Public Forces in North Lack Weapons: Sources

2021-07-12

[ToloNews] Amid questions over the formation of public uprising forces and doubts about their capability, sources from within these fighters' ranks said on Sunday that they are struggling with a lack of military equipment to fight against the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
They said they have repeatedly asked the government’s high-ranking officials to provide military equipment and weapons to the forces, but their requests have not been heard so far.

While dozens of fighters have pledged loyalty to former vice president Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
in the northern provinces against the Taliban, an aide to Dostum said that the government has not met its commitment to support the public uprising forces.

"We contacted them repeatedly. We asked senior security authorities, including the defense minister, the national security adviser, the NDS chief and the interior minister from the address of the High Council for National Reconciliation and the parliament, but unfortunately, they are not paying the required attention to equip and supply the public uprising forces," said Enayatullah Babur Farahmand, a member of the leadership council of Junbish-e-Milli and the deputy head of the High Council for National Reconciliation.

"These forces will prove effective and the enemy will not succeed if they are not provided more support," said Murtaza Jalali, a media adviser to Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
’s faction led by Ata Mohammad Noor.

...alternately Atta Muhammad Noor, the ethnic Tajik from Balkh province who fought against the Soviets in the Mujahideen — they called him The Teacher for his passion for educating the fighters — then against the Taliban in the Northern Alliance. After the Taliban were defeated Hamid Karzai appointed him governor of Balkh, whereupon he introduced stability and erased poppy cultivation...

Thousands of people have taken up arms in recent weeks in various provinces of the country to fight the Taliban following advances by the group in many provinces. Most of these forces have been formed in northern Afghanistan.

"We are defending our soil. We are defending the people, the flag and this homeland," said a public uprising forces member.

"We have police, NDS and army forces. They are faced with problems in management. How will we manage those people who have taken up arms to fight the Taliban?" asked Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, a military analyst.

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces front man Gen. Ajmal Omar Shinwari confirmed in a briefing with news hounds that public uprising forces have not received equipment.

"Weapons and equipment are not handed over to anyone except when they have military training," he said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 sources from within these fighters' ranks said on Sunday that they are struggling with a lack of ~~military equipment~~ will to fight against the Taliban

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-12 17:02

#3 Just send someone on a shopping run to Peshawar — they’ll have everything wanted, and at very reasonable prices, too.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-12 13:48

#2 "Weapons and equipment are not handed over to anyone except when they have military training," he said.
Compare that situation to:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-07-12 10:53

#1 I suppose it would be impolite to ask where all of our money has gone for the last 20 years?

Posted by: Tom 2021-07-12 10:52

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