Credible reports coming fr Logar, Zabul & Wardak provinces that disenchanted fighters are leaving TB ranks in droves & joining their arch nemesis, Daesh
#ISKP is offering $350/ 35,000 Afg / month for the new recruits, whereas TB are struggling to pay & feed their fighters.

#Taliban looted & facilitated the pillage of precious military and gov assets as war booty.

Here, a Ford tactical pickup truck of the previous army is parked at a Kuchi/nomad tent to provide solar electricity for the family.
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Credible reports coming fr Logar, Zabul & Wardak provinces that disenchanted fighters are leaving TB ranks in droves & joining their arch nemesis, Daesh
#ISKP is offering $350/ 35,000 Afg / month for the new recruits, whereas TB are struggling to pay & feed their fighters.

Two civilians & 4 alleged Daesh members are reportedly killed in a Taliban operation on a hideout in southern city of Kandahar.

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UN says the number of people facing famine in #Afghanistan   has risen to 8.7 million, an increase of 3 million from earlier this year.
The World Food Program also reports that about 24 million people, or 60 percent of Afghanistan's population, are facing extreme hunger.

Ghulam Rasul, a former special forces officer of the now defunct ANA, was killed in Kohistanat district of northern Faryab province today.

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New directive from #Taliban ’s morality police, regulating the affairs recreational parks:

- parks should be sex segregated
- women must observe Islamic hijab
- men & women cannot visit parks at the same time
- Playing live music is forbidden

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A large convoy of ‘rebranded’ Taliban fighters on-board US supplied Navistar International’s “Navistar 7000” military trucks in #Kabul city.

To actually change perceptions, #Taliban need to stop killing former military & gov officials & their family members.
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#Pakistan is not safe for former government officials.

Engineer Tawab Ahmadi, a native of #Panjshir , former civil servant at Kabul municipality & a one time NDS officer has died in Islamabad.

His brother has claimed that Tawab was killed in a “mysterious terrorist incident”

Hameed Saighani a journalist with Ariana TV is confirmed killed in the explosion on a van in Kabul’s western Barchi area.

He was an ethnic Tajik from central Bamiyan province.

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Shattered dreams!
#Taliban have brutally killed Azizullah Sangin & his nephew in Khost o Fering district of Baghlan province today. Azizullah, younger brother of an #NRF supporter, was a promising young man with a masters degree from India.
#Taliban Amnesty
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#ChangedTaliban ?

#ISKP claims an attack on “the apostate Taliban militia” outpost in Sawki district of Konar province, eastern Afghanistan.

5 #Taliban fighters including one leader were allegedly wounded in the attack

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A magnetic IED explosion targeted a passenger van in Dasht-e Barchi, a Hazara/Shia neighbourhood in west Kabul. Casualties feared.

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Sister of a former soldier had claimed in a video released yesterday that #Taliban ’s head of CID for 11th police district in Kabul had tried to sexually assault him. After she resisted, she was beaten and lashed.

Taliban confirm that she’s been arrested today for investigation

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Taliban executes Jafar Sanjani, an ex officer with the former ANA’s 111 Capital Division.
According to his relatives, Jafar was dragged from his home in Hesa-e Awal district of northern Kapisa province and shot dead.

A Patch of ASMassoud can be seen on his arm

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2 former female police officers shot dead in Gardez city, capital of Paktia province.

According to local media, the two women appear to be from ShakarDarah, a district in the Shomali plain, north of Kabul.

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Reassurance!?!

“Afghanistan doesn’t need a large army & we don’t want the former ANDSF members. We’ll have a small army”, said #Taliban foreign min in his speech at the Institute for Strategic Studies in Islamabad.

Quite symbolic place to deliver this message..

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