The Taliban took control of a large number of districts in Afghanistan over the past few weeks as the US and its NATO allies continued to withdraw their troops, leaving it to the ANSDF to fight the militants.
It came just days after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his counterpart in the United States, Antony Blinken, said in New Delhi that if the Taliban wrested the control of Afghanistan through military offensives, it would lack legitimacy. Though the Taliban has been running a campaign against the ANSDF, this is the first time the Sunni Muslim militants alleged that an aircraft provided by the Government of India committed a “war crime”. The Taliban is trying to take control of Lashkargah, the capital of the province, but is facing tough resistance from the special forces of the ANSDF. New Delhi had provided the ANSDF four Mi24 attack helicopters and three ‘cheetal’ helicopters in 2018.Ī fierce fight is going on between the Taliban and the ANSDF in and around Helmand. He, however, did not specify which aircraft the ANSDF had used. The Taliban’s spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid posted on Twitter that the hospital at Lashkargah in Helmand Province of Afghanistan had caught fire and was partially destroyed after the aircraft provided by India had been used to bomb it. An aircraft provided by India to the Afghan National Security and Defence Force (ANSDF) has been used to bomb a hospital in Helmand province of Afghanistan, the Taliban alleged on Saturday, calling the attack a ‘war crime’.
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