Kunduz is one of the 34th provinces with round about 1million population. It is located in the proximity of Tajikistan –hence one of the potential Northern Province given TAPI gas pipe line project is the one worth billion. Formerly, Taliban launched storming attack on the said province. Following the attack, involving hundreds of fighters, the northern city fell to Taliban –one of the major urban areas for the first time since the Taliban government toppled. Seeking entry the insurgents closed off the only four access points into the city – effectively preventing troops from entering and civilians from fleeing. Later it was disclosed with exception to airport, Taliban had seized the provincial council building, the offices of the local High Peace Council, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) building, UNAMA office and other key official facilities including private Banks. It is reported the Taliban have had overrun the local prison and freed all prisoners, looted all banks, torched the offices of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) - a German organization and other foreign offices in the city. In addition, they reportedly stole a large amount of military equipment. Conformingly, the social media footage showed Taliban driving through the streets of Kunduz in official armored vehicles and military tanks and raised their flags at the center of city. It was amazing to know Taliban undergo zero resistance and found it easy to take over the entire city.

In addition to mentioned rampages –mass murder, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by Taliban death squads, implementation of Sharia, chopping up limbs of accused thieves are just some of the traumatic over views of Kunduz city, following the seizure of Talban. This certainly marks security loophole and lack of coordination between consequent departments. If the government runs short of 24/7 a standby force stationed a little distance apart from a high security threat site, then endangering the lives of others security officials and citizens seem too awful for words motive. It’s repeatedly witnessed the security personnel warring militants were not aptly supported with needed backup that causes them a setback –consequently a city had to fall to militants.           

Many hours past the seizure of Kunduz the combat security forces had not been dispatched to the site. Finally the Afghan forces made attack when Taliban had completely penetrated the civilian enclaves aided by aerial support of US and NATO forces. According the some estimates more than 300 insurgents, including foreign nationals, have been killed in the Kunduz battle, which is being led by foreign militants, according to local officials. Aerial raids appeared to be unconcerned of civilian population and health workers targeted great number of them. They should have targeted militants with target precision. Such an unintentional execution will definitely give rise to nothing except civilian causalities equally effecting employees of humanitarian organizations. At least three staff from Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Trauma centre in northern Kunduz province is killed in a coalition troop’s airstrike early.

Subsequent to overrunning Kunduz, Taliban made resilient victory capturing Baharak district of Badakhshan Province and Kohistanat district of northern Sar-i-Pul province. The Badakhshan provincial council has testified Taliban are making gains in some other parts of the province after taking control of Wardoj and Baharak. Ministry of Defense has confirmed that after a large-scale military operation, Afghan security forces managed to retake Baharak district in the north-eastern Badakhshan province on Saturday morning.

These are underlined security lapses that serve civilian and security casualties. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) earlier acknowledged that the lack of strategic coordination among the security forces has been the main reason behind the fall of city. The ministry said Taliban militants would not have taken control of the city if there had been strategic coordination between the security forces. Now it is reported that government has begun airstrikes against the militant who have sought refuge in civilian population. Any unwise move may lead to lose of hundreds of innocents unarmed innocent masses. It was earlier a private news outlet undertook a survey that showed inclining graph of causalities.

Amidst the worsening security condition everybody was expecting orders of dispatching fresh army battalion immediately be sent at the combat site. Regretfully, the premier stuck to typical strategy of commission formation to trace out the mishaps.  Earlier, President Ashraf Ghani announced this very good news of formation three commissions to probe into the Kunduz crisis and affix those responsible for the situation. It has been witnessed the commission formation is technique to put the dilemma into unending delay. This is great to accepting the clandestine hands supporting the security downfall. Touching on the issue of spies within the government – which has lately been referred to as the fifth pillar of government – Ghani said: “I have personally instructed the National Directorate of Security chief to identify those who work as [double agents] within the government.” The public officials being behind such heinous plot is alarming as indicated in president’s talks. The government must set a tight internal surveillance system to keep a check on those who covertly supporting their paid masters and militants.