Pakistan Peace Deal Behind Increase In Attacks - Afghan official
6/21/2008
KABUL, June 21 (KUNA) — An Afghan spokesman Saturday said that the recent spike in insurgency in Afghanistan was the result of a controversial peace deal between Taliban and the government of Pakistan.
General Zahir Azimi, spokesman for Afghanistan’s Defence Ministry, told a news conference that the talks between the two sides had resulted in more attacks on the Afghan side of the border.
Addressing the media gathering, another senior Afghan officer General Sher Mohammad Karimi said the casualties mounted due to improvised explosive attacks by the militants.
Giving details about the operation against Taliban in Arghandab district of the strategic Kandahar province, Karimi said the Afghan and NATO troops had killed over 90 Taliban there.
Several villages of the lush green Arghandab district were seized by Taliban and they remained in control of the area for three days till they were pushed back as a result of joint operation by NATO and Afghan forces.
Karimi said they had counted 94 bodies of militants killed in the operation. Majority of those killed were foreigners, he told a questioner. Casualties among foreign troops have increased in the month of June.
According to unofficial figures, 32 NATO and coalition soldiers have been killed since the start of the current month in Afghanistan.
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The Taliban were a creation of the Paki military. This story gets a big fat “duh” from me.
And the Pakis are STILL supporting the Taliban. I hope sooner or later the old Norther Alliance gets together and takes the war to Waziristan; the same way they took it to the Soviets.
Face it. The only real mujhadeen in this war are in Kabul and Baghdad. They wear the uniforms and headscarves of the Awakening Movement and the Northern Alliance.
Haj is the mustifoon; muti scum. A sulphur pit awaits them. We need to speed up the process and send haj where he/she belongs….straight to hell.
June 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm