[trhway]

interesting that even the North - ethnically different, ie. Uzbeks, led by General Doustum, and which has been anti-Taliban for decades - fell without fight, and Doustum had to run into Uzbekistan. According to Nur, the [former] Governor of Balkh, (translation of translation) "it was a deep and widespread treason as all the government objects and forces were just simply transferred to Taliban".