Hamdullah Mohib, the national security adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, said that the Afghan government forces were planning on a counter-offensive in the country’s northern provinces after losing ground to the Taliban.
Hamdullah Mohib mentioned to RIA in an interview that the government forces had not expected the Taliban offensive but would counterattack absolutely and definitely.
The official said that the Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several hundred of whom had crossed the border into neighboring Tajikistan.
Tajikistan’s national security committee on Monday said that 1037 Afghan government soldiers ran to the former Soviet Country in order to save their lives after overnight clashes with the Taliban.
A statement of the committee, in a press release issued by the Tajik government, said that taking into account the principle of good neighborliness and adhering to the position of non-interference in the internal affairs of Afganistan, the military personnel of Afghan government forces had been allowed to enter Tajik territory.
The National security advisor added that the Taliban had taken up full control of the six districts in Badakhshan province on the border with Tajikistan in northeastern Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban controlled about a third of the 421 districts and district centers.
After the Taliban’s assault in May, hundreds of Afghan soldiers had already entered Tajikistan.
Dozens of Afghan districts had been seized by the fighters which have led to the fear that the Army would collapse once the US and International troops complete their withdrawal from the country in September.
Joe Biden, the US President, had ordered the withdrawal of all the US forces from Afganistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks which would be this year.
