Local officials in Kunduz said that a large-scale military operation has been launched in order to reopen the Kunduz-Takhar Highway, which has been closed for the past 10 days.
According to officials, the operation will focus on pushing Taliban back from the highway, but a number of security forces said this will not work and that another plan should be implemented in this crackdown.
TOLOnews’ Wali Aryan says that according to a number of military officials, the Taliban has planted mines on both sides of the road and that they have hidden inside civilian houses and attack security forces at every chance.
Aryan said Taliban fighters have been pushed back from parts of the highway after the operation started.
Wali said the outskirts of Kunduz city have however become safe havens for Taliban fighters, because no military operation has so far been launched there.
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