 A district police chief was killed by his own bodyguard in Afghanistan's troubled southern parts on Thursday. Other bodyguards of the slain instantly opened fire at their colleague killing him on the spot. Chief of the Moosa Qala district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province was shot dead in the morning by his bodyguards. However the attacker was killed by his colleagues burying the chance to know what was the cause behind the killing of the chief. A senior district official Wali Alizai said the real cause behind the killing of Abdul Mannan could not be immediately ascertained because the bodyguards had killed the attacker.
 Meanwhile, coalition forces claimed killing six Taliban during a joint operation with Afghan soldiers in the neighbouring Uruzgan province. A statement released here on Thursday said the operation was carried out on Tuesday in the area believed to be a hideout of the insurgents from where they manage to attack the Afghan and coalition forces. A day earlier, Afghan forces claimed they had killed 15 Taliban in an overnight clash in the border areas of the Kandahar province. However, locals later revealed the slain were ordinary citizens and not Taliban. On the other hand, the incident further intensified the tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan as the former said the people killed by Afghan forces were citizens of Pakistan. Tribes living along the rugged border between the two countries claim citizenship of both the countries and they frequently cross the border to meet their relatives and friends living on the other side, or look after their businesses. |