the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan:
The untold reality of Kandahar Operation (Part 2)
Zul Qadah 21, 1431 A.H, Saturday, October 30, 2010
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
Zhiri district is located to the south of
Kandahar-Herat main highway and has been a solid base and
under the control of Islamic Emirate Mujahideen for the past 9
years. Previously the invaders only had outposts on the main
highway but due to the recent operations have expanded those
to Pashmool and Sanzari areas. For recent information on the
situation in the district, Alemarah interviewed the Military
commander for this district, Mullah Ateequllah Agha.
Alemarah: Can you please
give us information about the recent enemy operation and on
the situation in the district?
Mullah Ateequllah Agha: As you might already know that
Zhiri is known as the most hostile district for the enemy for
the past 9 years and especially Sang-e-Sar and Pashmool areas
where the enemy has not been able to take over and has proved
very deadly for its forces. The southern parts of the
districts have been completely under our control which the
enemy has never even attempted to enter.
The enemy was real frustrated due to the constant attacks by
Mujahideen on the main highway which immensely disrupted the
movement of their military and logistical convoys and
therefore started the huge push towards Sang-e-Sar, Pashmool
and Sanzari areas by bringing hundreds of tanks, foot soldiers
bombing the areas by Jets, cruise missiles etc. Due to their
cruel and barbaric blind bombings, the residents of Pashmool
and Sanzari have fled during a time when they were supposed to
collect their harvests. Mujahideen countered their strategy by
adopting guerilla warfare from which the enemy has suffered
more damage than at any other time. You might have heard
through the media of the tanks being blown up every day in
Pashmool and Sanzari areas and the retaliatory ambushes and
attacks against their foot patrols. Similarly the invaders
arrested civilians after forcing their way into their homes at
night.
So due to our resistance, the enemy has not gained any ground
in some parts and in others where they have gains some ground,
it has come after much suffering and deadly losses. Overall
the enemy’s force is winded up, they have only added 2
outposts each in Pashmool and Sanzari areas and the Mujahideen
numbers which were decreased for the initial enemy push have
returned back to their normal levels.
Alemarah: How much new
ground has the enemy gained from this operation?
Mullah Ateequllah Agha: The enemy has not gained an
inch of territory in Sang-e-Sar, which is only 100 meters away
from the main highway. They have gained some ground in Sanzari
but after intense bombing and making headway by demolishing
people’s homes, fields and other property. They also made
ground towards the south of Pashmool up to Rod area but in all
areas the advance has been short term because they have all
returned to the 4 new outposts made in civilians homes and all
their military equipment has also been vacated from the rest
of the regions.
Alemarah: It is said that
the enemy has severely bombed the areas bringing huge
destruction to the civilians?
Mullah Ateequllah Agha: Like in the rest of Kandahar
province, Zhiri has also experienced enormous destruction to
civilian property from the barbaric enemy. Although the exact
facts and figures have not been compiled but I will summarize
some of the damage done that we have witnessed in a few
points.
1. Nearly 80% of civilians have become homeless due to the
ruthless bombings from cruise missiles, canon rounds and other
types of bombs dropped in all of Zhiri from Kandahar airfield.
The civilians have also suffered deaths and nearly all of the
people’s homes and other property have been completely
destroyed.
2. Hundreds of homes have been utterly demolished in the area
between the main highway and Wyala of Sang-e-Sar as the enemy
claims that their convoys and bases are always attacked from
this area.
3. The barbaric enemy has filled streams with dirt, demolished
homes and blown apart all the greenery in Pashmool, Sanzari,
Syachowi and also the other areas to make new roads due to the
other roads being completely mined.
4. In all these areas, the enemy has destroyed homes with all
its belongings inside. The homes were either already abandoned
and if they weren’t, they would force its owners to leave by
bulldozing the property’s walls.
5. The enemy has dropped types of bombs which have created
massive craters and which have also burnt people’s fields and
plants so to make an alternative way to enter due to fear of
mines being placed on the main roads.
6. In this process, the enemy has Martyred, wounded and
imprisoned countless civilians but we don’t have their exact
figures.
Alemarah: The enemy claims
to have caused Mujahideen many casualties, killed their
leaders and also broken their hold on the district?
Mullah Ateequllah Agha: So far 10 Mujahideen have been
Martyred which includes a group’s leader and he was not
Martyred in Zhiri but rather in Reag district by a night raid.
In contrast, the enemy has suffered immense casualties as you
might also have heard from the media.
Alemarah: How do you see
the result of the current situation and the operations result?
Mullah Ateequllah Agha: The current situation does not
differ a lot from the situation before the operation began.
Our groups in Pashmool and Sanzari have become active like
before and like before, the enemy is always attacked as they
come out of their newly built outposts in these areas and also
the ones built on the main highway. The only result coming out
of the operation is the death and destruction caused to the
civilians which deplorably, the foreign and domestic media
have been silent about.
The
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan