The
US-puppet Afghan Government's Military Commander, Ismail Khan, the 70
year-old ex-Mujahideen commander, has surrendered to the Taliban on
Friday 13, August 2021. What a bad Omen - Friday 13!
The Afghan
commander Ismail Khan, known as the ‘Lion of Herat’ returned to the
front lines in the western city of Herat last month amid growing threat
from the Taliban. He is the highest respected commander fighting for the
corrupt US-puppet Afghan government.
"He was handed over with
the Provincial Governor and Security Officials as part of an agreement
with the Taliban," said Provincial Council Member Ghulam Habib Hashimi
on Friday. He did not elaborate on the agreement.
Khan’s capture
was confirmed by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid . It comes amid an
offensive that has seen 18 provincial capitals fall from government
control in eight days.
Herat is a major urban centre in Western Afghanistan, near the border of Iran. It is the country’s third most populous city.
Photos and videos showing Khan in the hands of Taliban fighters were widely shared on social media.
A
spokesman for Khan said that the Afghan Commander had been allowed to
return to his home to see his family, after negotiations with the
Taliban. He would probably retire and serve the Taliban as an adviser or
consultant.
Khan has been involved in the country’s wars
stretching back to the Anti-Government uprising that triggered the 1979
Soviet Invasion, which he had fought against for nine years.
The
Afghan government forces under Khan had agreed to withdraw from the
Herat airport and the Army Corps Headquarters, the last centres under
their control 9 miles from the city.
The Taliban agreed that they will not pose any threat or harm to the government soldiers and officials who surrendered.
After
the surrender of the Army Corps commander, the Herat Governor, the
Security officials and soldiers, the city became very quiet and eerily
peaceful, like a Ghost Town. Local people with their families have
either left the city to the countryside or are hiding in their houses.
Curfew has been imposed after dark.
Within three months, the
Taliban has tripled its territory and in the last eight days, it has
captured at least 18 provincial capitals. This speedy success has no
parallels in history. It is a significant tribute to the leadership of
the Taliban and their followers, as well as the immense support of the
Afghan people.
The US is leaving Afghanistan after 20 years of
occupation, but what is it leaving behind? It is leaving behind a
war-torn country in ruins and a people played out wholesale, with the
rugs pulled out under their feet.
After 20 years of direct
bombings, intimidation, destruction and killings of the Afghan people,
Washington decides that the future of Afghanistan is for its people to
decide. What a sinister joke!
For those countries like Singapore
that still trust the US to defend you, think three times. LKY was right.
Never trust the Whitemen to protect you. They will play you out.
LIPS At Your Service.
8/15/2021
Afghanistan - Game Over For Remnants Of US and EU Aggressions
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Small countries are just pawns in the power game. They have little choice when coercion is used like 'you are either with us or against us' threat. And when Saddam and Gaddafi were taken out as a lesson of 'killing the chicken to teach the monkey', what else can small countries do?
Afghanistan: BREAKING News
The Taliban Nationalist Forces now effectively surround the Capital
Kabul from North, East, South and West, after capturing the northern stronghold of Mazar-i-Sharif, 4th largest city, and the eastern Jalalabad, and four other provincial capitals on Saturday.
The capitals and major cities fell like dominoes, without much resistance. Most of the Afghan government commanders simply succumbed and surrendered or agreed to a negotiated pull out.
Taliban's capture of Jalalabad and Maza-i-Sharif effectively leaves Kabul as the last major urban area under pro-US government control.
Taliban forces now are in full control of 24 of the 34 provincial capitals and cut off all the border-crossings with neighbouring countries.
Kabul is now totally isolated and will inevitably fall without a fight, just like many of the major cities and provincial capitals. The remnants of the Ghani Administration's security forces are in low morale and short of ammunition and food supplies. Surrendering is the only option to prevent further bloodshed of own people fighting own people, instigated by the foreign powers.
In just 9 days, the whole country, except the Capitol Kabul, the Taliban Nationalist Forces have taken full control of Afghanistan.
The total capitulation of the US-puppet Afghan Government is inevitable.
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From Aljazeera today
The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan’s Jalalabad without a fight, according to officials and a resident, effectively leaving the capital Kabul as the last major urban area under government control.
The key eastern city, which is also the capital of Nangarhar province, fell early on Sunday morning. It’s fall followed the Taliban’s seizure of the major northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
The armed group posted photos online on Sunday showing them in the governor’s office in Jalalabad.
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Do banks make money for providing this money transfer service, I wonder. Maybe, when the population cannot do without it, the banks will sharpen their knives and show their hands. Bank charges on other services they provide are just daylight robberies.
On the other hand, banks have to tow the Government line to turn Singapore into a cashless society. They are trying extra hard. When the time comes, bank branches become redundant, with only ATM machines in it's place. Many places are already like this, branches closed and only their ATMs remain. And to add insult to injuring three ATMs will be reduced to just one. Soon, end of ATMs as well.
With cashless society, shop owners and hawkers cannot escape the net by under declaring their earnings.
Latest update from BBC:
Taliban control all key cities jn Afghanistan, except Kabul.
The worse is that the Old timers hawkers are been cheated by the Youngsters SMART cheaters who bluff bluff scanned their QR code but no payments.
If I ever see anyone do this, they better check their medisave balance. KNN.
New COVID cases in US soar 700% week-over-week since July 1, CDC says.
Since July 1, there's been a 700% increase in the week-over-week average of COVID-19 infections in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The information was presented Friday at CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting during a discussion of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for immunocompromised patients.
"There's no doubt we're seeing a surge in cases now," said Dr. William Moss, a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The United States was at a low point in new cases in late June, with an average of about 10,000 a day. Today the average is closer to 125,000 a day, he said.
As my Afghan friend said today, the cavemen are now in the city. Welcome to Stone Age 2.
US-Afghanistan War: It's Over!
The US-Puppet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan like a typical coward and devout crony of Western Hegemonic Imperialism.
The Taliban have entered the Afghan Presidential Palace and found it empty of people, treasures and valuable items. President Ghani has fled. He was nowhere to be found. He must have been in the first flight of the US embassy evacuation plane out of Kabul International Airport, direct to the US Oval Office to lick the boots of President Joke Biden.
Thousands of Afghans crowd Kabul International Airport after the Taliban entered Afghanistan Capital Kabul and seized control of the Presidential Palace and government buildings. Some of the Taliban leaders have been seen inside the Presidential Palace together with local leaders and senior police officials, surrounded by many bodyguards, military personnel and armed fighters.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political bureau, said in a brief video statement on Sunday that the real test of governing would begin with meeting the expectations of all Afghans and resolving their problems.
In just one day, the battle for Kabul is over. In just ten days, the Taliban Nationalist Forces have liberated the entire Afghanistan from the occupation, domination and control of the Evil US Empire together with Its European Axis of Evil.
The Taliban leaders immediately set to work by first calling for a Media Interview to address the journalists and reporters from the country’s seat of power on Sunday.
They entered the palace after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country amid the Taliban’s rapid advance, which saw its nationalist forces capture 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals in less than ten days.
The coward Ghani later wrote in a Facebook post that he fled to prevent further bloodshed (from his body).
“The Taliban have won with the judgement of their swords and guns, and are now responsible for the honour, property and self-preservation of their countrymen,” the coward US-puppet Ghani said with obvious ill intent.
Latest updates:
1. The Taliban have reconquered Afghanistan in a lightning surge 20 years after they were toppled by the US invasion.
They entered Kabul on Sunday, more than two weeks before the August 31 deadline set by Biden to complete the withdrawal of American troops from the country.
It was under US President Trump that the US brokered a deal with the Taliban in Doha in 2020 to allow US troops to withdraw by May 2021, in exchange for various security guarantees from the Taliban.
2. Former US president Donald Trump is quick to seize the opportunity to call for his successor Joe Biden to resign on Sunday over the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban Nationalist Forces, as US troops withdrew from the country after nearly 20 years of occupation and building of a fake Democracy in Afghanistan.
“It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan,” Trump said in a statement.
3. Shafiq Hamdam, the ex-adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, slammed Ghani’s decision to flee Afghanistan on Sunday amid the Taliban’s rapid advance on Kabul.
“It’s shameful. It’s embarrassing. People feel abandoned, people feel betrayed,” Hamdam told Al Jazeera by phone from Washington DC.
4. Iran has reduced its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, leaving a skeleton staff at the embassy in Kabul.
5. Gunfire could be heard as night fell near the Kabul airport, where foreign diplomats, officials and other Afghans fled, to escape retribution or to seek greener pastures.
Hundreds of Afghans crowded in a part of the airport away from many of the evacuating Westerners. Some of them lined up for what was to be the last flight out of the country.
6. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as usual from his motherhood statements notebook, urged the “Taliban and all other parties to exercise utmost restraint.
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