Seven Taliban were killed and a commander was captured in the latest spate of attacks in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Four Taliban were killed in a clash in the Andar district of Ghazni province. Two militants were killed when the Taliban attacked a police post late on Monday in Garmser district in the Helmand province. In the north of the province, British troops shot dead an armed Afghan policeman outside a base in Musa Qula. The Afghan was in civilian clothes and was mistaken for an insurgent.In another attack late on Monday in Paktika province, one insurgent was killed while four others and a policeman were wounded following a short battle, said provincial spokesman Sayed Jamal. He said that around 50 Taliban crossed into a remote area of the Paktika province from Pakistan and traded heavy machine gun fire with police. The militants slipped back into Pakistan after the fight, he added.
Three Afghan soldiers and a civilian were wounded in Khost on Tuesday when an army vehicle headed for Kabul was struck by a roadside remote-controlled bomb, police said. In another part of Paktika, police arrested Mullah Akhtar Mohammad, a former director of refugee affairs, along with a group of five other men fleeing from Helmand province overnight, he said. One of the men was wounded, he said.