PESHAWAR, Pakistan Afghanistan's anti-Taleban alliance said Saturday that fighting in the northern Takhar Province has displaced 100,000 people.
A spokesman for the alliance, Mohammad Habeel, told the Pakistan- based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency by telephone that most of the displaced persons were now camping in the Farkhar and Kashem regions of the province.
"There is little food and medicine for these people and no aid organization has so far been able to reach out to the displaced people, " Habeel told AIP. Habeel appealed for urgent food supplies and warned of hunger and disease if no help came for the displaced.
He also said Taleban launched several attacks early Saturday on some north eastern areas still in opposition hands, "but our forces repulsed them all", the spokesman added.
The Taleban militia stormed into Taloqan, the capital of Takhar on Wednesday following weeks of fighting and is busy mop-up operations as well as consolidating its hold on the town which had been the administrative center of the anti-Taleban forces led by Commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
The radical Islamic militia had seized the city in August 1998, but its opponents regained control after two months.
Following Taleban's advance on Taloqan, Masood's forces withdrew to the east and south of the city, which allegedly was a clearing house for the supplies to the northern alliance from Tajikistan.
Taleban forces have also taken control of Baharak District, northwest of the city, and the Taloqan Airport, situated some six kilometers north of the city, according to AIP.
No estimates were available of the casualties the two sides suffered in nearly six weeks of fighting.
(DPA)