laid down their weapons and surrendered to authorities in eastern Kunar province... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
on Monday, local officials said.
"A total of 19 Talibs led by Taj Mohammad and Masood surrendered to the government in Kunar province," provincial head of peace council, Mawlawi Mohammad Hashim Munib said.
The men were active in Kunar and organised anti-government activities there, he said.
The commanders and his men submitted their weapons to Kunar police, officials said.
Mr Munib is confident that security will improve as more bully boyz renounce violence in the province.
It comes as a total of 19 Taliban led by a Taliban shadow governor on Monday surrendered to the government in Chisht-e-Sharif district of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province, around 640 km from Kabul, provincial governor Daud Saba said.
The men were active in the province and fought against the government, he said. The shadow governor and their men submitted their weapons to security troops, he added.
In the past six months, five Death Eater groups have joined the Afghan grinding of the peace processor in the province, officials said.
Dozens of bully boyz have recently joined the grinding of the peace processor in the province after Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces increased military operations in the country to clear Death Eaters.