{"id":79977,"date":"2015-07-25T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/dostum-not-leading-the-operation-mod-clarifies\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T15:37:51","slug":"dostum-not-leading-the-operation-mod-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/dostum-not-leading-the-operation-mod-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dostum not leading the operation: MoD clarifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Dawlat&nbsp; Waziri, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Defense has clarified that Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shaheen was heading the fresh offensives in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Babur Farahmand, a Wolesi Jirga (lower house) member and close aide to Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum claimed Dostum was heading the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Waziri told journalists in Kabul that General Dostum&rsquo;s presence in the north boosts security forces&rsquo; morale and make the militants to join peace process. He was flanked by Siddique Siddqui, the Ministry of Interior Spokesman who briefed the press about internal security affairs<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Satar Barez, deputy governor Faryab told SW that military forces have carried out aerial attacks on militants&rsquo; hideouts during the past 24 hours in Qarayaee village, Almar district.<\/p>\n<p>He added that as a result of the attack around 18 armed militants including foreign fighters were killed and 9 others were wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.Barez added that three Taliban commanders Abdul Rahim, Mullah Wakil and Mustafa were also among those killed in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Both the spokesmen noted that the findings of investigation into foreign forces&rsquo; airstrike in Logar that led to the death of 7 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers will soon be made public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Dawlat  Waziri, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Defense has clarified that Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qadam Shah Shaheen was heading the fresh offensives in the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}