Islamabad: Taliban has flooded Ghazni, the Capital of the Tenth Afghan Province, in less than a week on Thursday and has come in 90 miles from Kabul, the country’s capital.
While Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flew to the northern cities, such as Mazar-e-Sharif to seek help from the commander of the war, The Taliban March to surround the capital being taking steps per hour.
The fall of Ghazni means that the Taliban now control the most important highway that connects Kabul with the south of the country.
This also means that they have effectively disconnected the Ashraf Ghani government to important provinces such as Kandahar, Helmand and Farah.
A broad battle occurred around Ghazni for days and allegedly may be the next provincial capital fell to the Taliban.
Speaking to the media, Ghazni Provincial Board members said that armed groups had taken most of the city, including the governor’s compound, while Afghan forces are currently controlling the police in the suburbs.
The country’s interior ministry, meanwhile, said that Afghan police had arrested Ghazni Governor Mohammad Dawood Laghmani and his representatives in Wardak Maidan Province, South Kabul, after escaping from the provincial capital.
In South Afghanistan, the rebels, who surrounded Kandahar for weeks, claimed to have controlled prison and had released more than 1,000 inmates.
While the Afghan government has not confirmed the takeover of the prison, militant groups have shared videos that show the detainees running outside the prison.
In Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province in the south, militants have taken over the regional police headquarters.
According to government sources, several police officers had surrendered to fighters while others resigned to the nearest governor’s office which was still controlled by Afghan forces.
Fight between the Taliban and government forces have been going on for weeks in Lashkar Gah.
While the Taliban took control of the north, west and south of the country and might march towards the capital in a few weeks, the inability of co-trained and equipped defense defense forces to reclaim the lost land was worrying.
their supporters in the West.
Reminding the Afghan government that the US has spent more than one trillion dollars since 9/11 and has truly worked to stabilize the country and appoint defense forces to protect not only the government but the state, US President Joe Biden said, “We spent time.
A trillion dollar more than 20 years.
We train and be equipped with more modern equipment of more than 300,000 Afghan troops.
Afghan leaders must gather.
They have to fight for themselves, fighting for their nation.
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Taliban capture Ghazni, come in 90 miles from Kabul
