Provincial police chief Abdul Habib Syed Khel said sporadic clashes still continue and at leat 14 Taliban militants have been killed and 17 others have been injured so far.
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Taliban fought Afghan forces for two days in Sar-e-Pol province before capturing the district of Kohestanat on Monday.
Taliban insurgents have seized control of the administrative headquarters of a district in northern Sari Pul province, where fighting has been ongoing for days, officials said on Tuesday.
Gen. Baba Jan absolved police and blamed Nazirullah Shah, a senior border police official in the north, and ALP for reaching a shameful deal with the enemy and handing them over a strategically important base.
The loss of the base comes after an attack last month saw hundreds of insurgents assault security checkpoints in the province’s Yamgan district, forcing police to abandon them.
It did not say whether the captives joined their ranks.Jan later said the Taliban had released all the policemen and allowed them to return to their homes. Both also said they would take place on July 30. In Kunduz, the Taliban have seized around 70 villages in Khanabad district this week, a spokesperson for the provincial governor said. It highlighted the challenges facing Afghan security forces, which have seen their casualties soar in the face of stepped-up insurgent attacks.
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Regular payments to Pakistan under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) programme began in 2001 when Pakistan joined the US-led coalition in Afghanistan as a “frontline ally”.
