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Pakistani, Tajik militants among 37 killed in Kunduz operations
 At least 37 militants including Pakistani and Tajik nationals were killed during clearing operations in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said.A statement by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were conducted in the vicinity of Dasht-e-Archi district. The statement further that two Pakistani nationals and three other belonging to Tajikistan were among those killed and at least 25 others were wounded. The Afghan armed forces also confiscated various types of weapon and explosives during the same operations, MoD said, adding that three members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces were also martyred. The anti-government armed militant groups have not commented regaridng the report so far. Kunduz is among the volatile provinces in northern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities. The provincial capital of Kunduz briefly fell to Taliban control last year and since then certain districts have been witnessing violence on occasional basis. Posted by: badanov 2016-02-23 |
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