{"id":91047,"date":"2019-07-06T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/baghlan-on-the-verge-of-collapse-to-the-taliban\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:13:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:13:31","slug":"baghlan-on-the-verge-of-collapse-to-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/baghlan-on-the-verge-of-collapse-to-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghlan on the verge of collapse to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/july\/06\/\u0628\u063a\u0644\u0627\u0646 2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PUL-I-KHUMRI (SW) &ndash; Civil society activists in Baghlan on Saturday expressed concerns over the mounting Taliban assaults on Pul-i-Khumri city.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Salam Watandar, the activists said the security officials in the province seem&nbsp;unable to control the situation. They charged the situation here is alarming, but the officials are reporting absolutely opposite to their higher-ups in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>However, Niazm Mohammad Niazmand, provincial police chief, discarded the fears about deteriorating security as baseless. He added additional support has been sought from Kabul, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, well-placed sources&nbsp;in Herat told SW at least 25 security forces were killed in the Taliban&rsquo;s attacks in Pashtun Zarghoon, Karkh and Ghoryan districts. At least 20 more security forces are reported injured in these attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The governor of Ghoryan district, Farhad Khademi, said the Taliban attack\u062b\u06cc&nbsp;a team of security forces tasked with the security of the railway line, and killed six of them.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kamran Alizay, chairman for the provincial council, lack of resources and security personnel is causing the unrest and surge in the Taliban attacks.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Jailani Farhad, spokesman for the police in Herat, acknowledged the surge in attacks, but vowed that soon a clean-up operation would be launched.<\/p>\n<p>Amid ongoing seventh round of talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, fighting has accelerated across Afghansitan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-I-KHUMRI (SW) \u2013 Civil society activists in Baghlan on Saturday expressed concerns over the mounting Taliban assaults on Pul-i-Khumri city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91047","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\/91047","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=91047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}