MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Local officials on Wednesday said the Taliban had captured many localities in Gorzaiwan district of northern Faryab province, urging the government to act preemptively to prevent the fall of the district centre.
Abdul Razaq Kakar, the district chief, said hundreds of Taliban fighters, led by Mullah Shoib, Mullah Ahmad Shah, Qari Jailan and a Pakistani Sheikh, had attacked the district from east and west reaching four kilometres near the district centre.
He told Pajhwok Afghan News the . . .
