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Afghan forces conduct 112 Joint, Special Ops and 11 airstrikes in past 24 hours: MoD |
2019-07-08 |
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops conducted 112 Joint and Special Operations against the bully boy groups in the past 24 hours. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the security forces conducted 15 joint and 97 special operations or tasks to suppress the bully boy groups. Furthermore, the Afghan Air Force conducted 11 ![]() KABOOM!... s to support the ground forces. The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operations in Pashtun-infested Logar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Ghazni, Faryab, Uruzgan, Ghor, Balkh, Kapisa, Zabul, Takhar, Kunar, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, which is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... , Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Sar-e-Pul ![]() provinces. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point... the defense ministry said the security forces killed 65 turbans during the operations. Furthermore, the ministry of defense said the security forces also maimed 28 turbans during the same operations. In addition, the security forces arrested a suspected bully boy during the operations. The Ministry of Defense also added that the coalition forces also provided support to the Afghan cops during the operations. The anti-government armed turbans including Taliban ...Arabic for students... have not commented regarding the operations so far. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#5 To me, "Taliban" means the same as "Dead Man Walking"! |
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-07-08 20:50 |
#4 *Happy sigh* I would ask Mr, Wife, but he’s forgotten the Arabic he’d learnt while working in the Middle East. He shocked his Indian colleagues by reading the Urdu shop signs (nobody expects Americans to know foreign languages), but that was almost as long ago. ;-) |
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-07-08 13:44 |
#3 Perhaps not student so much as follower (tabie, تابع) or disciple (almurid, المريد) |
Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-08 11:41 |
#2 Actually, al talib would mean 'the student'. The 'an' sound at the end is like a respectful inclusion of a group. Like for all those present (haazir) in a room or gathering, the speaker says, 'haaziran'. So taliban should mean like 'all students'. Apparently speakers of the darned language do not regard any other students as students. So you're only a student if you're a talibaner. Drat ! |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-08 10:38 |
#1 not sure about the name Taliban in arabic an adult student is talib but I think the plural of that in arabic is altalib Taliban may be a Pashto word where the root 'talib' is borrowed from arabic and the suffix 'an' is taken from Pashto but I'm not sure of this |
Posted by: lord garth 2019-07-08 09:57 |