KABUL - The Taliban declared a three-day Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan starting Sunday, via a tweet on Saturday from the hardline Islamist group, and the country's president said the government would reciprocate.
The move came as fighting between the two sides had intensified despite the coronavirus pandemic.
"Do not carry out any offensive operations against the enemy anywhere, if any action is taken against you by the enemy, defend yourself," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, tweeted. He added that the ceasefire was declared solely for Eid festivities marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani welcomed the Taliban's ceasefire announcement and extended the offer of peace.
"As Commander-in-Chief I have instructed ANDSF (Afghan National Defense and Security Forces) to comply with the three-days truce and to defend only if attacked," he said in a tweet.
Last month, the Taliban rejected a government call for a ceasefire across Afghanistan for Ramadan, saying a truce was "not rational" as they ramped up attacks on Afghan forces.
At least 146 civilians were killed and 430 wounded by the Taliban during Ramadan, Javid Faisal, a spokesman for the country's main intelligence and security office in Kabul, said on Saturday.
- Reuters
Created by Tan KW | Aug 26, 2024
Created by Tan KW | Aug 26, 2024
Go there alone or in big gang? Using his own pocket money or borrowed money (our debt has been going up one way- can support his trip?)
2020-05-24 11:05
Mohiden government can sponsor Hadi! most welcome! Let him stay them until GE15, if Hadi still alive by then!
2020-05-24 11:09
Signs of the Judgement Day is near:
- when a man obeys his wife to rob the nation
- disobeys and betray his mentor
- when a killer (mrtyr) will not know whom and why he is killing
- the killed (be her a mongol or other ethnicities) will not know what he is killed for
- trials and civil commotions become widespread
- lying, falsehood (claim which defies evidences) and slanderous remarks proliferates, together with their teaching institutions - mushrooming
- markets become closed
- earthquake is increasingly frequent, ecosystem has been irreversibly upset, biodiversity is being constraint
- when ministerial, managerial and GLC affairs are entrusted to those who have nothing to do with their experience, intellectual or human quality
- profanation of education, backward education
- spread of corruption have caused a situation when today those who occupy managerial positions have neither the necessary education nor qualification nor moral cleanliness
- politics has turned into a dirty affair
- The times of distorting mirrors; and substitution of values are to come for humanity, when “...liar’s words will be taken as the truth and words of an honest person will be taken as lies.
- Treacherous will be trusted
- times of vacuous speeches
- times of the increase of sudden deaths - the age of strokes, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases that cause sudden human death due to a cardiac arrest.
- follow the materialistic way of the west; and the pursuit and indulgence in luxury
- when people abandon fighting for a good course to stop the evil
- when power is in the hands of paltry, when those of high status among you indulge in lechery, and knowledge is in the hands of vicious
- increasing national debt, poverty rate and bank loan
- when people won’t care whether to earn their living in a permitted or forbidden way. All jobs are good, just choose according to your taste.” Nowadays, the situation in the world is such that the ends (gains and profits) justify the means. People no longer care which way they earn their living, relying on the “winners are not judged” principle. However, what is the price of such “victory”, and how do people pay for it later on? Their life motto as robber = Not guilty until you are caught. Even if caught, still many ways to escape through a corrupted police and judicial system
2020-05-24 11:10
Bearvsbull Bendia
Send Hadi, he claim he can unite all muslims!
2020-05-24 11:02