According to the report of the Taliban Ministry of Internal Affairs, at least 60 Taliban were killed in 16 provinces of Afghanistan in just two days.
DUSHANBE, February 26 – Telegram channel of Andrey Serenko - “Sangar”. A strange hunt for Taliban militants is unfolding in Afghanistan.
A source close to the Taliban Ministry of Internal Affairs told Andrei Serenko’s telegram channel that Sirajuddin Haqqani’s department is alarmed by the massive attacks on the Taliban in various provinces of the country.
“At the same time, it remains unclear who exactly is attacking the Taliban militants, what kind of people they are, what organization they belong to,” the source notes, emphasizing that “not only the Ministry of Internal Affairs but also the political leadership of the Taliban are alarmed by the situation.”
According to the report of the Taliban Ministry of Internal Affairs, which the source had the opportunity to get acquainted with, at least 60 Taliban were killed in 16 provinces of Afghanistan in just two days.
“They were killed in different ways, under different circumstances, without leaving any political statements, as is usually done by the resistance fronts of Ahmad Massoud and Yasin Zia. This makes the situation even more alarming - the Taliban do not understand who is killing them,” says the source.
The only thing that is reliably known so far, the source notes, is that the mysterious attacks on the Taliban are not carried out by fighters of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA) or guerrillas of the Freedom Front of Afghanistan (FFA). The source also ruled out the involvement of the Afghan affiliate of ISIS in these actions.
“This is some new force capable of operating in at least half of the provinces of Afghanistan. The Taliban are very afraid of these people, they have kept information about the massacres of their militants as secret as possible. The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the National Intelligence Directorate (NID) of the Taliban are taking additional measures to ensure security in various parts of the country, but there is no result. Killings continue every day," says the source.
According to him, the Taliban leadership is alarmed by the fact that in a month favorable conditions for the next fighting season will arrive in Afghanistan: “The Resistance fronts are intensifying their actions, and then there are these unknown ghosts killing the Taliban. The situation is taking a dangerous turn.”
At the same time, Sangar's sources say that behind the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and the Freedom Front of Afghanistan, which are the main anti-Taliban forces operating in Afghanistan, other fronts have entered into battle with the Taliban.
According to a special report received from Sangar's Taliban intelligence sources, at least four other fronts are involved in guerrilla attacks against the Taliban without officially declaring their existence.
“Four fronts, one in the central provinces, another in the south, and two others in the cities of Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif, have not yet been identified and it is unknown where they receive supplies. There is only scant information about one of them, which operates in the central provinces, including Saripul, Samangan, and Badghis. They are a mixture of ISIS fighters and former government soldiers and officers. These groups do not even announce their operations to the media, they act like ghosts,” the source said.
According to this source, the dangerous front that has officially declared itself to the Taliban is the National Mobilization Front, led by a man named Javed Dehsabzi, a Pashtun from the Dehsabz district of Kabul province.
“Yesterday, this front attacked a Taliban training center on the border with Pakistan, located in Parcho village of Lalpur district of Nangarhar province, causing significant casualties,” the source said.
According to him, as a result of this operation, 4 Pakistani and 2 Afghan Taliban were killed, and another 5 Pakistani Taliban were seriously injured.
“One of the dead Pakistani Taliban is Mawlawi Khanwali from the Pole Chaharsada area of Peshawar (Pakistan), who was supposed to transfer American weapons to TTP that he received from the Afghan Taliban,” the source said.
Those aware of the situation say Pakistan, in collaboration with the US, is using its proxy groups to punish the Taliban for supporting Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and working closely with the US's regional and international rivals. They recruited and supported these groups during the republic and after it, and now they have brought them to the battlefield to reason with the Taliban.
