The Taliban’s claim to hold 90 percent of Afghanistan’s borders is an “absolute lie”, the defense ministry said Friday, insisting government forces were in control of the country’s frontiers.
“It is baseless propaganda,” deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Defence Fawad Aman told AFP, a day after the insurgents made the claim, which was not possible to independently verify.
The Taliban’s claim on Thursday came after the group captured key border crossings with Iran, Tajikistan.
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