Tajikistan has provided humanitarian aid to residents of Afghan province of Kunduz who fled the province and arrived in Afghan Badakhshan.
Tajik state-run news agency Khovar reports that Tajik General Consul in Fayzabad (Afghan Badakhshan), Umed Nazarov, distributed assistance to thirty-five families from Kunduz.
The assistance reportedly included wheat flour, vegetable oil, sugar, tea, blankets, and primary necessities.
Tajikistan will provide humanitarian aid to internally displaced people in Afghanistan in the future as well, said Khovar.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in early October that more than 32,000 people were fleeing Kunduz, a city in north Afghanistan, where fighting between armed groups and government forces entered its eighth day on October 10.
Over 32,400 people have reportedly fled Kunduz and arrived in Taloqan, Kabul, Pul-e-Khumri, Taloqan and Mazar-i-Sharif.
The humanitarian situation inside Kunduz continues to be of concern — water and electricity have been cut off for over a week and food supplies are scarce, he noted.
Taliban militants in a surprise move overran parts of the strategically important Kunduz city, the capital of the northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, along the border with Tajikistan, on October 3, forcing many families to leave the war zone for safer places.
Afghan government forces, after days of fierce fighting, reportedly recaptured Kunduz city on October 12, forcing Taliban militants to retreat to their former bases.
“Taliban rebels after suffering huge casualties and leaving scores of bodies behind [and have] fled…the whole city is in control of the government forces at the moment,” an official was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
“More than 200 Taliban rebels have been killed and over 300 sustained injuries,” the official said.
According to the official, more than 20 police personnel have been killed and 45 injured in the operation to flush out the militants.
