Suspected Pakistanis Taleban militants attacked a security post in southwestern Afghanistan killing eight security officials. The assailants arrived in three vehicles from Pakistan after sunset Friday and opened fire on a government security post on the Herat-Kandahar highway, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted neighbouring Nimroz provincial governor Abdul Karim Brahiwi as saying. âThere is no doubt that Pakistanis Taleban and Al Qaeda are involved in the attack,â the governor told the agency. The attackers fled towards the Bakawa region of Farah province and search teams had been sent to Pakistan after them, he said. The post had been set up to protect the main artery linking western Herat province with the southern Kandahar region. |