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Taliban Announce Start of ‘Spring Offensive’ in Afghanistan
Taliban armed group on Friday announced start of their “spring offensive” across Afghanistan, the group said in a statement.
The statement added that the Taliban’s spring offensive so-called “Mansouri” will consist of two parts; first is to establish good governance in their under control territories and second is to continue their proxy war and coordinated suicide attacks on government institutions.
The annual spring offensive of the Taliban normally marks the start of the new “fighting season”; however, this winter the group continued to battle Afghan security forces, most successfully in last week’s attack on Shaheen 209th Crops military base in northern Balkh province that killed and injured dozens of soldiers.
Deputy spokesman for the Defense Ministry, Mohammad Radmanish; however, said; “This operation is more of propaganda, Taliban doing nothing except killing people.”
Sources told Ariana News that the Taliban spring offensive was expected earlier but it was delayed because of internal divisions between Quetta Council and Haqqani Network.
However, the issues between the Taliban involved parties have been solved as follows:
– Each commander of Quetta Council to be given 400 thousand Pakistani rupees and the Haqqani Network that holds the outside financial outcomes could be given 600 to one million Pakistani rupees.
– The financial support of Russia, Iran, and some Arab countries should be divided between Quetta Council and the Haqqani Network in accordance to their participation in the operations.
Sources said that the Quetta Council has said to Haqqani Network and Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency (ISI) that they do not have enough financial support and can not rise up their attacks in Afghanistan.
This comes as the United States is expected to deploy about 1,700 more troops in Afghanistan. The fresh forces will come as replacement for other U.S. soldiers who have been involved in ongoing war for many years.
Mohammad Radmanish said: ” We welcome the troops. Their presence in combat against terrorism would be effective.”
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) say 7,000 incomplete projects of the World Bank are at risk of destruction in Afghanistan. They call on the World Bank to resume the work of these projects.
According to them, discussions have been held with the World Bank about these projects, but there has been no result yet.
“7,000 incomplete projects are being destroyed, and if the work is not started, these projects will be destroyed. We ask the World Bank to resume the work of these projects as soon as possible,” said Noorul Hadi Adel, the spokesperson of MRRD.
Meanwhile, members of the private sector also ask international institutions to resume their work in Afghanistan.
According to the officials of this sector, with the start of these projects, job opportunities will be provided for thousands of people in the country.
“These projects create employment for our people and the country will grow a lot,” said Mirwais Hajizadeh, a member of the private sector.
However, economic experts stated if the work of these projects does not start soon, they will be destroyed and the investments made in them will be wasted.
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