[Tolo News] Ten cut-throats who worked together renounced violence 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 and surrendered their weapons to government authorities, local officials said.
The group of men were involved in insurgency across the Guzara district and Herat-Kandahar highway, occasionally attacking NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
convoys across the highway and shooting rockets on Herat airport.
With the group's change, stability in Herat province and Kandahar highway is expected to improve, according to the provincial security officials.
The commander of the group said that the transfer of responsibility for security to Afghan cops indicated it was time to help strengthen the abilities of the Afghan forces to defend the country from foreign invaders.
Nearly 600 cut-throats in Herat have renounced violence in last six months, with this gang being the 11th group in the past three months, officials said.