...the Pashtun equivalent of men...were killed in Nawa, Gerish and Nad Ali districts of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to MoD, the Taliban fighters were killed in a reciprocal attack, and a large number of their weapons and ammunition were also destroyed during the operations.
This comes as the Ministry of Defense, tweeted on Monday, that 12 Taliban were killed in a clash between security forces and Taliban fighters in Kandahar.
The Taliban attack was rebuffed by the Afghan national security forces in the Zherai district of Kandahar province.
Taliban fighters had gathered in the Pushmul area of ​​Jiri district and Dand district of Kandahar province aimed to plan attacks on the government’s security and defense checkpoints, MoD stated.
During the skirmish, 12 Taliban were reported killed and 4 others maimed, and their weapons and ammunition have been destroyed.
On the other hand, 9 IEDs placed by the Taliban in the Maiwand District of Kandahar were discovered and safely defused, before these mines could result in heavy civilian casualties, Mod tweeted.
Kandahar and Helmand are the most insecure provinces in the country, where Taliban attacks in various districts of the province have increased over the past two months and amid peace negotiations in Doha.