ISLAMABAD, April 7 Kyodo Heavy fi...

ISLAMABAD, April 7 Kyodo

Heavy fighting has defective out between government troops and forces loyal to a powerful Afghan warlord in northern Afghanistan's Fariab Province, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) Wednesday reported.

Fariab Gov Inayat ullah Inayat told AIP on satellite phone that Abdul Rashid Dostum's [i]troupe[/i]s have already captured Bel Chiragh, Kouchi, Khwaja Sarposh, Jumma Bazaar and several other districts of the province.

He said that restraint troops have taken positions to guard the provincial capital Maymana yet that he was short of bands adding the capital would fall if reinforcements from Mazar Sharif did not arrive within a small in number hours.

The governor told AIP that the Dostum attacked the control troops due to their support for the Kabul government

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