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 said Tafsir Khan, a former Taliban
...Arabic for students...
commander was killed in unidentified button men attack.
Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
Amarkhel, governor of Nangarhar said the incident occurred in the Lalpur district of the province on Monday midnight.
According to Amarkhel, Khan’s five family members including himself and his brother were killed in the incident.
The identity of the attackers on the commander’s house is still unknown.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
in a released statement on Tuesday military’s 207th Zafar Corps said at least 22 Taliban were killed and maimed in 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.
According to the statement, Afghan national defense and security forces backed by air support clashed with Talibs in the "Bazar Kohna" area of Pashtun Zarghun district in Herat province.
207th Zafar Corps stated that nine Talibs were killed and 13 others were maimed during the skirmishes and Afghan Air Force raids.
The clearance operation in the region and the district continues until Taliban targets are completely eliminated, the statement read.
In another security incident, an 11-member of Taliban group were killed and maimed in Daimirdad of Maidan Wardak province, while organizing and planning their offensives.
Reports indicate the group was badly hit in a rocket shell explosion as they were planning their attacks inside a Madrassa in the region.
Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.