A Taliban* commander was killed in an attack by the newly-minted group Pamir Tigers in the province of Badakhshan.
KUNDUZ, April 10 - Sangar, Jamshid Badakhshi. This is the first effective operation by anti-Taliban forces in Badakhshan since the Taliban took over the province in August last year.
An interviewee for the Sangar website, who identified himself as a member of the newly formed Pamir Tigers, said Javadullah Fadai, was one of the commanders of the Taliban group in Badakhshan.
“He was killed by our fighters in the Jazgun valley of the Verkhne-Yaftala region, in the eighth district of the city of Faizabad. He was very cruel to the people of the province,” he said.
According to him, Javadullah Fidai was a Tajik from the Jazgun valley and one of the commanders of Mavlavi Nisar Ahmad, the deputy governor of Badakhshan, and commanded a group of 50 people.
Two of Javadullah Fidai's bodyguards were also seriously injured in the attack by the Pamir Tigers. However, the source refused to provide information about the Pamir Tigers grouping, saying only that it supports the Afghan National Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud.
In the meantime, this marks the first serious loss of the Taliban in Badakhshan and the first effective operation by the Afghan National Resistance Front forces.
Badakhshan is the most Talibanized among non-Pashtun, especially Tajik, provinces. In the First Resistance, it was the only province that was completely under the control of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, led by the Badakhshan Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Badakhshan Taliban leaders figure prominently in the government of the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban, including Kari Din Mohammad Hanif, Minister of Economy, and Qari Fasihuddin, Chief of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense are from the province.
*The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
