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| 30 Insurgents Killed in Ongoing Military Operation in Sar-e-Pul |
| 2015-08-09 |
| [Tolo News] At least 30 Death Eaters were killed in an ongoing military operation in northern Sar-e-Pul province in the past four days, local officials said on Saturday. In addition, 18 other Death Eaters were maimed. A large-scale military operation launched in the province on Tuesday to re-take control of Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... at district which had recently fallen in to the hands of the Taliban, according to the officials. "The security forces have also cleared 18 villages in Sayyad district of the province. The forces have also moving forward in Kohistanat district and are in festivities with the Death Eaters in Alaf-Safid village," provincial acting governor, Abdul Jabar Haqbin said. Haqbin said that "four security forces have also been killed during the operation and eight others were maimed." The operation will continue until all Death Eaters from the Kohistanat district have been cleared, he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |