"The Afghan National Police (ANP), in collaboration with the Afghan National Army, NDS or National Directorate of Security and Coalition Forces, launched 10 joint operations over the past 24 hours in the Kabul, 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..
, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Kandahar, Zabul, Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Baghlan, Paktia and Farah provinces," said a statement issued by the Interior Ministry here.
"As a result of these operations, 18 armed cut-throats were killed, seven other armed cut-throats were maimed and 31 armed cut-throats were locked away," the statement said.
Separately, police also found and defused a total of 13 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and anti-vehicle mines in Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Farah, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunduz, Nimroz and Uruzgan provinces, over the same period of time, besides seizure of seven AK-47 guns, six pistols and two rocket launchers, the statement said.
"The ANP also found five
cycle of violences, one vehicle and five artillery shells as a result of the above operations over the past 24 hours," it said.Taliban cut-throats have yet to make comments.
The Taliban outfit, fighting 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...
-led troops, have intensified their activities against government interests and security forces since the beginning of May when the forces of Evil group announced to launch a spring offensive against security forces all over the country.