According to reports, the terrorists are slowly moving towards country's capital Kabul.

Hoda Ahmadi told the Associated Press as quoted by Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents had reached the Char Asyab district, 11 kilometers south of Kabul.

Following the overnight fall of the provincial capital Pul-i-Alam, the insurgents overran many parts of the province, reports Pajhwok Afghan News.

Continuing its blitzkrieg, the Taliban has captured Muta Khan and Jani Khel Districts (Paktika) in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, in line with its strategy of offering assurances to Afghan leaders in exchange for their surrender/defection, the Taliban released a recorded conversation between Head of the Taliban Invitation and Guidance Commission Amir Khan Mottaqi and former mujahideen leader Ismail Khan (captured by the Taliban after the fall of Herat city) in which Mottaqi is heard asking Khan to convince other Jamiat-Islami leaders to surrender.

In the besieged city of Mazar-e-Sharif (Balkh), the Taliban continues to be kept at bay, with Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor and Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum vowing to carry on their resistance.

Separately, despite the rapid collapse of the ANDSF over the past week, First Vice-President Amrullah Saleh stated that there was “no way” he would surrender to the Taliban.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Abdul Sattar Mirzakwal visited Chahar Asyab District of Kabul Province to assess the security situation.