It was also reported that opinion holds that with the joining of these armed men the security situation of Dareim District is getting better, as affirmed by Rasikh. According to the source, the joining personnel handed over one RPG-7 rocket, five Kalashnikovs, one 11-shot gun, and one Karabine gun to security officials. Mawlavi Abdul Hadi is a well known commander of a Taliban formation who joined the peace process in Badakhshan three days previous to the event brining in 110 armed men. Sometime back, a 50-member group of the armed opposition also joined the peace process from the same district.

Badakhshan is a region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan and has a diverse ethno-linguistic and religious community. Tajiks are in the majority while a minority of Uzbeks and Kyrgyzs also live there. There are also groups of speakers of several Pamir languages of the Eastern Iranian language group. The people of this province have a rich cultural heritage and they have preserved unique ancient forms of music, poetry and dance.

Faizabad city is the capital of Badakhshan Province in northeast Afghanistan and lies on the Kokcha River and is the main commercial and administrative center of the area and of the Pamir region.

Update:
30 Aug 2011
2,380 Taliban join Afghan peace process: NATO
Over 2,380 Taliban insurgents have renounced violence and joined the Afghan government-initiated peace process over the past one year and half, a NATO spokesman said Monday.

*”Today 2,385 people have enrolled in program in 20 provinces,”* British Army Major General Phil Jones, Director of the Force Reintegration Cell with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, told reporters at a joint press conference with ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson.

He also predicted with confidence that hundreds more Taliban insurgents are joining this process in near future.
However, Jones said that peace and reintegration process was an Afghan-led process and ISAF has always been a strong supporter of Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program (APRP).
Out of the country’s 34 provinces, he named Baghlan, Kunduz, Sari Pul, Faryab, Badghis and Herat in northern and western Afghanistan where a lot of former insurgents joined the peace process.

However, in southern and eastern provinces, seen as the stronghold of Taliban, few insurgents have done so. *”It is good that more and more former fighters all over Afghanistan recognize the senselessness of all this (insurgency),”* said ISAF spokesman Jacobson.