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2022-09-18 Afghanistan
Former Guantanamo guest is injured in Panjshir war
[KhaamaPress] Sources in northern Afghanistan claim that Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, a popular Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
fighter who leads Panjshir and Andarab war, has been injured.
Also an aspiring rapper
The news spread widely in social media as a couple of local news agencies covered the story of the former Guantanamo prisoner and the popular Taliban commander for the Panjshir and Andarab war.

The Taliban has not yet showed any reaction to the news and due to restrictions for access to information within the Taliban administration, the media outlets are unable to verify and reaffirm sensitive incidents via government sources.

Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir was one of the prisoners in the U.S Guantanamo prison for several years after the US and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
troops fought Taliban in 2001.

The war has intensified as the Taliban have reportedly deployed over ten thousand military troops in Panjshir to clear the area from the opposition forces.

Both sides claim infliction of casualties, but there are no independent sources to verify and confirm.

This comes as the peace negotiations between the former Afghanistan administration and the Taliban failed last August as the Taliban took over the country after the flee of former Afghanistan's Caped President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
Posted by Fred 2022-09-18 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11152 views ]  Top
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#1 say what you will but these men look resolute.
Posted by irish rage boy 2022-09-18 12:01||   2022-09-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Looking resolute is easy, irish rage boy.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-09-18 23:27||   2022-09-18 23:27|| Front Page Top

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