Afghan local officials said on Tuesday that 13 beturbanned goons including their commander were killed in a joint Afghan and NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
forces in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.
The operation was launched two days ago in Nowzad district of Helmand province to clear it of beturbanned goons in which Mullah Motasam, a bad boy commander and 12 others were killed, Dawood Ahmadi, governor's front man told TOLOnews news hound.
Thirty Afghan civilians who were kidnapped by these men have been freed in the operation, he added.
Militants have been active in some parts of Nowzad district and use Improvised Explosive Devices to target Afghan and foreign forces' convoys. But civilians are often the main victims.
Afghan and NATO forces recently launched military operations in the country to clear volatiles areas of bad boys, as foreign forces have started security transition to Afghan forces.
Afghan forces have taken over security responsibility of seven areas in the first phase as planned.
On Monday a senior NATO civilian official said Afghanistan along with NATO are working on the second phase of security transition process to determine provinces for the second phase.
Appearing at a joint presser with Isaf front man, NATO's senior civilian representative front man Dominic Medley made an announcement on the second group regions that would see transition will be made either in late September or October.
Despite concerns that Afghan cops are not equipped with modern weapons, Isaf said that they are ahead of time in terms of build up and equipment programme in Afghan cops.
Isaf Spokesperson Gen. Carsten Jacobson told the conference: "We are more than ahead in the timetable for increasing Afghan national security forces, police and army and equipping them according to plan."