(Last Updated On: May 7, 2021)
Two electricity pylons in the north of the city were blown up early on Friday morning, the main power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), said.
The incident happened in Mirzakhil village in Kalakan district of Kabul at around 4:45 am on Friday in which two power pylons that transmit imported 220 kilovolts of power from Uzbekistan to Kabul were destroyed and a third pylon was partly damaged, read DABS statement.
Locals say they woke up to the sound of an explosion, but no one was injured in the area.
“Bomb has been placed near another power pylon in the area, but a team from the Afghan army is in the area to defuse the bomb,” DABS said.
Taliban Victory in Afghanistan Not a Foregone Conclusion
Voice of America
07 May 2021, 08:35 GMT+10
Top U.S. defense and military officials are holding out hope the Afghan government will be able to withstand the latest Taliban military offensive, launched days ago as U.S. and coalition troops began leaving the country.
Provincial officials from across Afghanistan have warned of mounting losses in a series of attacks, some with heavy casualties, since the United States officially began its withdrawal on May 1. But the Pentagon insisted Thursday that the withdrawal was going according to plan, with no surprises. It s not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon.
Pentagon Sends Reinforcements For Afghan Pullout
May 07, 2021
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The Pentagon has deployed more heavy bombers and fighter jets to ensure the protection of the withdrawing U.S. and coalition troops from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on May 6. Less than one week in, the drawdown is going according to plan, Austin told reporters, adding that the international forces have sustained no direct attacks so far.
Pentagon Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley said that to defend the departing troops, six B-52 long range bombers and 12 F-18 fighters have been ordered for contingency support.
Austin and Milley s statements came as Taliban attacks on the government forces continued to escalate throughout Afghanistan amid the ongoing international pullout.
Taliban capture key dam as fighting rages
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May 7, 2021
KANDAHAR: The Taliban have captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam after months of fierce fighting in their former bastion of Kandahar, the insurgents and officials said Thursday.
Dahla Dam, which provides irrigation to farmers via a network of canals as well as drinking water for the provincial capital, was now under Taliban control, local officials told AFP.
“We have seized the Dahla Dam in Arghandab,” Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP.
Haji Gulbuddin, governor of an adjacent district, confirmed the dam “is now in the control of the Taliban.“Our security forces. asked for reinforcements but they failed to get it,” he said. The dam´s capture comes after clashes erupted in neighbouring Helmand province this week, just days after the US military formally began withdrawing its remaining troops from Afghanistan.