"The Taliban have taken control of key areas of the city: the governor's office, police headquarters and the prison," said local politician Nasir Ahmad Faqiri at Ghazni's provincial council, according to TT.
The conquest of Ghazni is also confirmed by the Taliban themselves, reports the news agency AP and the BBC.
The Taliban's latest conquest is strategically located, as the city of Ghazni is located southwest of Kabul, along a highway leading to the capital.
Tenth provincial capital to be conquered
Ghazni is said to be the tenth provincial capital to fall into the hands of the fundamentalist movement.
Since the violent fighting broke out during the summer, the Taliban have in a short time now taken control of more than 60 percent of the country's area, according to the news agency Reuters.
Pictures from Kabul show how people on the run sleep in parks and on the streets.
On Wednesday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghan flew to Mazar-i-Sharif, a city in the north of the country, to try to muster a counter-offensive with the help of the country's special forces.
"People are extremely scared"
Among other things, the Taliban want foreign troops to leave the country, as well as introduce sharia law.
- These are goals that they have had very consistently for the past 20 years, says Klas Bjurström, senior strategic advisor at the Swedish Afghanistan Committee.
Magda Gad, war correspondent for Expressen on the ground in Afghanistan, told this week about the terror in the country:
- In areas that they have taken over, people live as under IS.
It is terrorism, people are extremely scared and suffer a lot.
It will also affect the economy, can lead to mass starvation and has already led to mass flight.
It could also lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Magda Gad on the ground in Afghanistan: "The Taliban take land very quickly" Photo: SVT