A group leader of 16 beturbanned goons who joined the Afghan government's reconciliation programme in western 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 said they joined the government after internal disputes among the local Taliban.
Group leader Abdul Wahed Nazari told TOLOnews: "There were issues among us - people were killed unfairly - so we dissented and joined the government."
Herat's governor Daoud Sha Saba on Thursday said that the group had been operating in the Gulran Distrect of Herat. They submitted their weapons with more than 500 KG explosives to the National Directorate of Security office in Herat.
"With the joining of these people who love Afghanistan, security will improve," he said.
It was the twelfth group to join the grinding of the peace processor and renounce violence in the past four months in Herat, he added.
In total, the province has taken more than 650 beturbanned goons in since opening the High Peace Council office in the province.