Reliable local sources in Bamyan report that the Taliban’s attack on a base being led Mohammad Tahir Zahir and his loyal fighters in the border area of Yakawlang district of Bamyan and Balkhab, Sar-e-pol was repelled.
The attack was carried out on Tuesday, September 20. Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi, the Taliban’s governor was leading this attack and he had deployed more than 100 fighters on the ground for this operation.
One of the fighters under the command of Zahir, the former governor of Bamyan, told Hasht-e Subh on the condition of anonymity that the Taliban governor in Bamyan and his men retreated after suffering 4 injuries.
However, Abdul Sabour Farzan Sighani, the spokesman of the Taliban governor’s office in Bamyan, has denied this claim and said that Abdullah Sarhadhi and his companions had gone to meet and visit the residents of Hazar Cheshme, Dozdan Cheshme, Gandejah, and Pudinatoe villages in Yakawalang district.
Mawlavi Mehdi, a Haraza-affiliated Taliban member who had separated his way from the Taliban lately and assassinated on the border line between Iran and Afghanistan was also fighting against Taliban alongside Zahir.