Amu: Local sources confirmed on Thursday that tensions among local Taliban commanders have flared in the northeastern province of Badakhshan where similar rifts were also reported previously. The new round of such rifts emerged in Jurm after efforts by senior Taliban commanders to detain a fellow commander of Tajik ethnicity was failed, sources said. The commander had allegedly resisted directives issued by Taliban’s Pashtun-dominated leadership, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. Click here to read more (external link).