[Dawn] A roadside kaboom killed a district police chief in restive southern Afghanistan and his two bodyguards, police said.Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province police chief Mohammad Hakim Angar said on Monday that Mohammad Saifullah, the police chief in the province's Garm Ser district, was killed when a roadside kaboom detonated as he and two of his bodyguards were driving by on Sunday night.
Helmand is one of Afghanistan's most violent provinces and sits in the heart of the Taliban's traditional stronghold in the south.
Security responsibilities in the province's capital have already been handed over to Afghan forces by NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
while two other districts in the province are being recommended for an upcoming second phase of handovers. Garm Ser is not among them.