The latest unrest in Helmand comes after President Ashraf Ghani made a diplomatic outreach to Pakistan – the Taliban s historic backers – aimed at restarting peace talks with the insurgents.
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The claims from the Afghan interior ministry and army could not be verified and came after the Taliban appeared to have seized control of most of the key town in the southern Helmand province.
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Mr Stanekzai told reporters at a press conference in Kabul: “The military is in position and the operation is ongoing”.
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Sangin was the scene of fierce fighting during the full Afghan campaign, with more than 100 British troops dying in and around the town. “Same as before, they will face a bitter defeat and disgrace, as they faced in the past 14 years”. “But it’s when they’re left to their own devices that they seem to struggle”.
Intense fighting washed across the town for a fourth day since Taliban fighters pushed into the town at the weekend.
The Taliban began advancing on the district centre after storming government buildings, sending civilians fleeing as fears grew that the entire province was on the verge of falling to the insurgents.
Taliban forces first entered Sangin on Sunday. “They are not deployed in a combat role and will not deploy outside the camp”.
Both sides suffered heavy casualties, according to Abdul Majid Akhundzada, deputy head of Helmand provincial council. “Even soldiers with minor injuries lost their lives”.
The Afghan government has resorted to airdropping in supplies to its forces trapped inside of Sangin.
A few hundred police and soldiers have taken refuge at an army barracks about 7km (four miles) from Sangin, and are besieged there. With insurgents on the outskirts of Helmand’s capital Lashkar Gah, and districts across the province either in Taliban hands or threatened with takeover, “it’s time for the president to recognize that he is not an academic anymore, he is a war president and he has to tell the people what he can do”.
Local source also said the Taliban had resorted to shouting threats and taunts to the soldiers, encouraging them to surrender. The bombing was meant to bolster embattled government forces who may be on the verge of losing control over the country’s largest province.
Lord Dannatt, former chief of the general staff, said the Government must think “long and hard” about any expansion of the UK’s role as it balances other military demands while operating with a smaller Army. “Otherwise they will lose the district and all the forces will be killed”.
Stanekzai pleaded for patience, saying Afghan forces were fighting without the extensive array of tactical “enablers” from close air support and helicopters to surveillance assets that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops had used when they were involved.
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This week North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military advisers have been sent to Helmand, but no foreign troops will participate in combat operations on the ground.
