[Tolo News]
A local government official has been assassinated in southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Tuesday evening, local officials said.
Gunmen on a cycle of violence fired at Sherin Agha, a member of the Nawa district council on Tuesday evening in Lashkargah, the scenic provincial capital. The councilman was rushed to a hospital, but died of his wounds, Dawood Ahmadi, front man for governor told TOLOnews news hound.
Militants have recently been targeting Afghan key officials in the country.
Violence has recently increased in Afghanistan as Death Eaters started targeting government sites, Afghan and foreign forces.
Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
forces have also increased military operations in the country to clear volatile regions of Death Eaters, as foreign forces started security transition to Afghan lead.
In two incidents on Sunday, Death Eaters killed a councilman and chief prosecutor from Gereshk district.
On Friday, a man with a bomb hidden in his turban went kaboom!" outside the Helmand governor's compound in which one Afghan policeman was maimed in the blast.
Lashkargah province is one of the seven areas that Afghan cops have taken over from foreign forces.