103 security personnel casualties an unproven claim

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Interior Ministry has dismissed claims that dozens of security forces in 16 provinces have been killed and wounded in clashes with National Resistance Front (NRC) fighters over the past eight days.

Claim

On Friday, the Subh-i-Kabul newspaper quoted Sibghatullah Ahmadi, a self-proclaimed spokesman for NRC, as saying that 61 Taliban were killed in the past eight days in Baghlan, Panjsher, Kabul, Kapisa, Samangan, Takhar, Parwan, Badghis, Laghman, Balkh, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Herat, Nangarhar and Kunar.

The source claimed 42 “Taliban members” were wounded in these provinces. He said two members of the front were also killed and three others wounded.

The news has also circulated on social media.

Fact check

Qari Saeed Khosti, spokesman for MoI, spurned the claim. He told Pajhwok Afghan News the assertion was untrue.

No clashes have been reported in the past eight days.

Outcome

NRC says 61 Taliban have been killed and 42 wounded in clashes with the group in 15 provinces over the past eight days, but MoI spurned the allegations as baseless.

NRC claimed more than 100 security forces have been killed and wounded in last eight days in various provinces, but the government sources considered these statements baseless and no report of clashes between the two sides had been published during this period.

Verdict

The killing and wounding of dozens of security forces in the last eight days has not been proven yet.

sa/mud

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