Isa Khan Laghmani, 28, said he shot six Taliban fighters Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, during an attack on the parliament in which two civilians were killed and 40 wounded.
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KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday discussed with security officials through a series of video conferences the country’s overall security situation.
The president spoke to defence and interior ministries officials, the spymaster and crops commanders through the video conferences at the Tawhid Centre, a statement from the Presidential Palace said.
The president also gave away military medals to three pilots of the Afghan Air Force. The recipients included Col. Qudratullah, Col. Ghulam Mohiuddin and Col. Attiqullah.
The pilots bravely pounded enemy positions during airstrikes in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy forces, the statement said.
After that, the president was presented reports by the acting defence minister, the interior minister and the spymaster about the overall security situation, challenges, operations against militants, casualties the enemy and the Afghan military suffered in those operations and future plans.
Following this, Gen. Murad Ali Murad, the ground forces commander, presented a report to the president about security operations in northern Kunduz province and its nearby areas as civil and military officials from Kunduz watched.
Gen. Murad said more than 150 militants had been killed in those operations and another 60 injured. The dead militants included more than 25 foreign fighters, he said, adding eight security personnel were killed and 62 others were wounded during the operations.
The ground forces commander briefed the supreme commander of the armed forces about incoming operations against militants in Kunduz, Baghlan, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces.
In response, the president thanked and praised all commanders spearheading these operations and soldiers partaking in the actions.
He directed the military leadership to assist families of slain and wounded soldiers at the earliest and provide children of the fallen soldiers every facility they needed.
The president also said the 70 security personnel, who broke insurgents’ siege in Ghulam Ali mound in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz and inflicted casualties on the enemy, should be introduced to the Presidential Palace for reward.
Ashraf Ghani also directed the ministries of interior, defence and the spy agency to appoint a joint delegation to investigate security officials whose negligence allowed insurgents to seize weapons and ammunitions.
The president said he would issue special directives over the next few days about how to improve activities of security forces and their programmes.
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Isa Khan Laghmani (Persian: عیسی‌خان لغمانی, born 1987) is soldier of the Afghanistan National Army. he called the hero of Afghanistan after he killed 6 suicide attackers alone in the Kabul Parliament attack On June 22, 2015. Laghmani’s actions made him an instant hero for a country and a beleaguered government that desperately needed one. President and Chief executive officer offered awards.
Afghan president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani give Isa Khan an award.
He was praised by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for his actions. Posters with Khan's face have appeared in the capital, in what has been described as a "rare spontaneous show of support" for the country's security forces
NATO says it will decide how quickly to scale back its military training and support mission in Afghanistan after assessing how well local security forces perform in this summear's "fighting season."
After talks between defense ministers from the alliance and Afghanistan in Brussels on June 25, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said, "We are going to assess the situation after the end of the fighting season this year," he said, referring to the period between April and the first winter snows.
By then, he added, NATO will have more information about the security challenges the country faced and the capabilities of its forces.
NATO pulled out most of its combat troops from Afghanistan last year, leaving some 12,000 personnel to train local security forces in a mission expected to end at the end of 2016.
Isa Khan Laghmani, 28, said he shot six Taliban fighters Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, during an attack on the parliament in which two civilians were killed and 40 wounded.
Afghan army Staff Sgt. Isa Khan Laghmani, 28, is shown Tuesday, one day after he says he shot all six Taliban gunmen threatening the parliament building in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Men attach a poster of Afghan army Staff Sgt. Isa Khan Laghmani to a fence in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
Isa Khan Laghmani, 28, had little time to collect himself after a suicide car bomb near the Afghan parliament building caused the “loudest explosion” he had ever heard.
His ears ringing, it took the Afghan army staff sergeant several seconds to realize that the converted shipping container he and other soldiers were standing in was filled with dust and smoke. Knowing from experience that such a bombing in Afghanistan is often followed by militants on foot, the 10-year veteran grabbed his M-16 assault rifle and stepped outside, near the entrance to the parliament complex.
When he saw a group of young militants approaching, he hesitated for a second before opening fire.
“I said bismillah [in the name of God], and then: Bang! Bang! Bang!” he said in an interview Tuesday, a day after the bombing. “I shot all six.”
The soldier’s bravado made him a national sensation in Afghanistan in the wake of the latest Taliban assault on the parliament, in which two civilians were killed and 40 wounded. The morning after footage of him narrating his exploits to local media went viral Monday evening, young men hung posters with his picture around Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani gave him a three-bedroom house.
With Afghan security forces suffering heavy casualties in a struggle to contain a Taliban offensive and many criticizing Ghani’s attempt to open peace talks with the insurgents as violence increases, Laghmani’s story made him an instant hero for a country and a beleaguered government that desperately needed one.
The Afghan government got more good news Tuesday with reports that security forces had retaken control of a key district at the doorstep of the capital of the northern province of Kunduz. A Taliban advance over the weekend had brought the militants to within a few miles of the city, home to some 300,000 people.
Laghmani’s version of events could not be independently confirmed. On Tuesday two members of the security forces stationed at a roadblock near the parliament compound said that at least one other soldier also fatally shot some of the six militants but did not tell his story publicly out of fear of becoming a Taliban target.
The swaggering Laghmani had no such fear.
“I made myself a target for the Taliban 10 years ago” after he joined the army, he said. “Believe me, I’ve done much worse to them in that time.”
The father of three, whose family lives in the eastern city of Jalalabad, dreamed as a boy of joining the army and has served in the southern provinces of Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan. When he applied to be reassigned to Kabul six years ago, it was at the urging of his family, who worried about his safety, he said.
“I wanted to be where the action was and where I could really be of service to the nation,” he said.
After the suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the parliament in West Kabul Monday morning, while lawmakers were inside preparing to vote on Ghani’s nominee for defense minister, the six Taliban gunmen stepped out of a minivan parked several hundred feet away.
In the time it took the gunmen to reach the road leading to the parliament building, they fired off several rounds, at least one rocket and six or seven hand grenades, which were responsible for most of the casualties, witnesses said.
Inside the building, Abdul Rauf Ibrahim, the parliamentary speaker, tried to maintain order as lawmakers panicked at the sight of falling dust and debris.
Once the six gunmen were within shooting range, Laghmani said it took him 10 or 15 minutes to fire off the rounds that killed them.
“I only used one-and-a-half or two rounds of bullets, so the government doesn’t think Isa Khan used a lot of bullets,” he said.
On Tuesday morning, a 31-year-old man named Hairan was among a group of men hanging a poster with Laghmani’s face. Hairan, who has only one name and hails from Kunduz, said Laghmani’s bravery sent a message to the Taliban, whom he described as infidels.
“We are doing it because we want to show the Taliban that we are with the people of Afghanistan and those who protect us, not them,” Hairan said.
Ghani tweeted of Laghmani: “I’m so proud of his resolve and heroism.”
Laghmani said he had seen a few of the posters but that he was only glad to have the chance to serve his country.
“I thanked the president for the three-bedroom house, but I also told him, ‘I hope you don’t expect me to sit at home now,’” Laghmani said. “I am of this nation and I want to continue to defend it.”
Major explosions followed by gunfire have rocked Afghanistan’s parliament building in the capital, Kabul, resulting in the death of the seven assailants and at least two civilians.
Major explosions followed by gunfire have rocked Afghanistan’s parliament building in the capital, Kabul, resulting in the death of the seven assailants and at least two civilians.
Local press reports said on Monday that panic spread around the parliament building as lawmakers left a Monday morning session amid billowing smoke following the blasts.
Witnesses said that a group of bombers stormed the lower house of the parliament and detonated their explosives as the session was in progress.
A TV channel also showed Afghan legislators being evacuated from the building, located in the important Darul Aman neighborhood of Kabul.
There were also reports of gunfire outside the parliament as security forces have cordoned off the entire area, according to eyewitness accounts.
One local report cited the Kabul police chief as saying that the first blast at the parliament building was due to a car bomb, which was followed by several other explosions.
Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
Afghan security forces, however, managed to foil the attempt by the Taliban militants to lay siege to the parliament building. Officials said all seven assailants were killed in the counter-attack to secure the building.
"First a car bomb detonated on the main road near the parliament building, then a group of attackers entered a building in front of parliament," Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said.
A woman and a child were killed in the assault, according to police and the United Nations.
The Afghan Health Ministry reported that 31 people, including five women and a child, were wounded.
Afghanistan has witnessed a surge in the number of terrorist attacks in recent weeks after the Taliban militant group vowed to target Afghan government and foreign troops as part of its so-called spring offensive, which usually begins in late April.
The militant group recently dismissed a proposal by senior clerics in the country’s Ulema (Islamic clerics) Council to stop its attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The war-torn country is still struggling with a lack of security more than 13 years after it was subjected to a massive military invasion by US-led forces in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
Although the occupation ousted the Taliban regime at the time, it failed to halt terror activities and the displacement of civilians across the Asian country.
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