Taliban killed, injured hundreds of Afghan civilians during Ramadan
Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul
According to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, nearly 200 civilians were killed and some 400 others were injured following the Taliban's increasing attacks since the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan.
As the statement says, most of the victims were targeted either by roadside bomb blasts, car bomb attacks, or targeted assaults. This comes as intense fighting is underway between the Afghan national army and Taliban militants across some key provinces in southern and northern parts of the country.
Meanwhile, top military officials in Kabul say that counterattack operations conducted by Afghan government forces have claimed the lives of nearly a thousand Taliban militants over the same period.
While the Afghan government and the Taliban are struggling to have the upper hand on the battlefields, local Afghans continue to view the controversial Afghan peace talks as the only possible way for bringing calm and security to their war-ravaged country after years of instability.
Recently, US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmai Khalilzad said the Taliban have shown a green light to the Istanbul summit on the Afghanistan peace process. The summit was scheduled for April 24th, but it was postponed after the Taliban refused to attend it amid postponement of the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan.
In a peace deal between Washington and the Taliban signed in the Qatari capital, May the first was designated as the deadline for the US troops pullout.
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