Afghanistan's Northern Alliance forces on Wednesday captured the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar, said reports.
AFP quoted a senior Afghan envoy in neighboring Tajikistan as saying that "the people staged an uprising. Northern Alliance forces have taken control, there are no Taliban left in Kandahar," the ambassador for the Northern Alliance's government-in-exile in Dushanbe, Said Ibragim Khikmat, told reporters.
Al Jazeera satellite channel reported that revolting tribesmen have taken Jalal Abad in the east of the country and drove Taliban militia out of the city and the other areas they took hold of. They set up local councils to run these areas.
The station had quoted eyewitnesses as saying the thousands of Tribesmen were 30 kilometers out of Kandahar and heading for the city, where Taliban forces took refuge after they evacuated Kabul and all the other key cities in a sudden sweep by the North Alliance.
The fall of Kandahar means that the south of the country, populated mostly by the Pashtun ethnicity, will be dominated by the opposition forces – Albawaba.com
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