According to the statement 118 Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...were killed and further 30 others were reportedly maimed in Afghanistan.
The statement added that four Taliban affiliates were also detained during the Afghan National Defense and Security Force operations.
MoD stated that the operations were conducted in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for
Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Ghazni, Kandahar, Zabul, 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...
, Ghor, Balkh, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Takhar provinces.
The ministry also tweeted that Afghan National Army discovered and defused 169 IEDs placed by the Talibs on public roads.
This comes as the Ministry of Defense in another statement said that two Pak nationals were killed along 48 Taliban holy warriors in the Maiwand, Khatriz, and Zherai districts of Kandahar province. It is stated that Pak Taliban Affiliates Qari Hamza and Qari Hakim besides Haji Rohani the Taliban’s authorized individual for overall extortion operations and Qari Bismillah were killed during festivities with ANDSF.
In another security incident General Command of Police Special Unit (GCPSU) members detained two individuals accused of assisting and coordinating with the Taliban holy warriors in PD12 Kandahar city, the quiet provincial capital, Ministry of Interior reported.
GCPSU during a separate operation in the Naziyan district of Kandahar detained four people over assisting Talibs.