[Tolo News] Taliban's shadow district governor Mullah Nasir has been killed in Sangin district during an Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) operation in Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.
Helmand's Governor Spokesman, Mohammad Omar Zawak, said that the operation was launched on Monday and so far nearly 21 kilometers of Sangin district has been cleared of krazed killers.
According to Zawak the operation is still underway and since the start of it one police was killed and four others were maimed.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the attack.
This comes after hundreds of Taliban Lions of Islam attacked ANSF outposts in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province early Tuesday and started festivities with the forces in which six coppers and more than 50 Taliban Lions of Islam were killed, local officials said.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the deputy front man for the MoI did not give an exact number of Taliban Lions of Islam involved in Tuesday's attack, he emphasized that the Afghan cops are fully capable of dealing with such attacks.
Almost a month ago, more than 800 Taliban Lions of Islam attacked Sangin and took control of the area for more than a week. The clash ended when an increase of troops were deployed in efforts to clear the district of krazed killers.