Times of India:

Taliban Mendakwa Kuasai Semula Daerah Yang Dirampas Pembangkang

(Taliban claims district retaken from opposition)

ISLAMABAD: Ketua duta luar Taliban berkata, pasukan militia berjaya merampas kembali Sabtu lalu, wilayah yang sebelum itu telah dirampas oleh pasukan tentera Pakatan Utara. Demikian yang dilaporkan oleh Afghan Islamic Press.

Daerah Aq-Kupruk, 70 kilometer di selatan bandar Mazar-i-Sharif, telah jatuh ke tangan Pakatan Utara pada Sabtu lalu apabila kira-kira 800 pejuang Taliban berpaling tadah dan menyokong pihak lawan (Ingat.... mereka kehilangan daerah ini bukannya melalui pertumpahan darah....-penterjemah)

Duta Taliban di Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, memberitahu AIP: "Aq-Kupruk di wilayah Balkh telah dirampas semula daripada pakatan Utara."

Zaeef juga menolak dakwaan pihak pembangkang yang mengatakan berlakunya kisah berpaling tadah secara besar-besaran di kalangan pejuang Taliban, kata AIP.

Asal:

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Taliban claims district retaken from opposition

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban's main foreign envoy said militia forces Saturday recaptured a district in northern Afghanistan lost earlier in the day to the opposition, the Afghan Islamic Press reported.

The district of Aq-Kupruk, 70 kilometres south of the key city of Mazar-i-Sharif, fell into opposition hands on Saturday after 800 Taliban fighters changed sides, the Northern Alliance said.

But Taliban ambassador to Islamabad, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, told AIP: "A little while ago our forces recaptured Aq-Kupruk in Balkh province."

He said there were "heaps" of bodies of opposition forces in the district.

Zaeef also rejected opposition claims there had been a mass defection of Taliban fighters, AIP said.