(KUNA) -- Afghan and coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters and arrested five other people on charges of links with the al-Qaeda terror network, officials said on Sunday. Spokesman for Afghanistan's Interior Ministry Zmaray Bashari said three Taliban fighters, including two Pakistan nationals, were killed in airstrike by NATO aircrafts in Garmser district of Helmand province. Without giving more details, the spokesman said they were recognized as Pakistani nationals while the third was a mid-level Taliban commander. In a separate incident, the Afghan Interior Ministry's spokesman said two more militants were killed while planting a bomb. Bashari said the militants were planting the bomb on a road near Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province, which was frequently used by Afghan and local forces. In yet a third incident, the coalition and Afghan forces arrested five people for their alleged links with Taliban and al-Qaeda. A coalition spokesman said the five men were arrested during a raid in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern Nangarhar province. The spokesman did not mention the nationalities of the arrested men.