Afghanistan extremity Highlights In his first televised address to the nation since Taliban advance, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani Saturday said he'll not allow " the assessed war" on Afghans to bring further killings, loss of the earnings of once 20 times, destruction of public property and continued insecurity, reported TOLOnews. " I assure you that as your chairman my focus is to help farther insecurity, violence and relegation of the people," TOLOnews quoted Ghani as saying. Ghani also said that he was consulting original leaders and transnational mates regarding the situation in the country.
The Taliban captured Logar fiefdom, positioned lower than 80 kilometres south of Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, reported The Associated Press. Homa Ahmadi, a legislator from Logar, claimed the Taliban now controlled the entire fiefdom including its capital, and had indeed reached a quarter in the neighbouring Kabul fiefdom.
In another development, the mutineers took over the main radio station in Kandahar on Saturday, and renamed it the Voice of Sharia, or Islamic law. In a videotape released by the group, an unnamed revolter said it would be hereafter be used to broadcast news and recite the Quran. Music would no longer be played on it.
Fears are growing that an assault on the capital megacity of Kabul could be near. The Indian Express' journalist Shubhajit Roy reports from Kabul " This is a megacity nervous and fearful of what lies ahead, dreading the study of a return to times when women had no rights, music was impermissible and life, as they've known it these history numerous times, didn't live.
" Officers and diplomats in Kabul are watching the Taliban advance with great concern. The political situation is unfolding fleetly in Kabul, and there's enterprise of a change in leadership, maybe a power- participating arrangement that will stop bloodshed. But no bone is sure, and rumours fly thick and fast."
