 Afghan forces backed by air support from 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...
aircraft have launched a broad sweep of the country's northeast borders killing 59 Taliban cut-throats in a major offensive in a province that serves as a Death Eater supply route from Pakistain.
The Afghan forces are for the past three days combing mountainous region in Kamdesh district in Nuristan province, which touches Pakistain, in a spring onslaught on Taliban bases.
"14 armed cut-throats were killed, 34 maimed and 18 others set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by Afghan forces during the last 24 hours," the interior ministry said in an statement.
Kamdesh is a strategic base for the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan and serves as a spring board for faceless myrmidons crossing from Pakistain's turbulent Wazirstan province, a front man of the Nuristan province said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) front man said that 32 other faceless myrmidons had been killed in recent days.
According to the sources, about 400 Afghan coppers are assisting Afghan commandos in the sweep across the province, considered to be a den of Taliban capo Maulvi Nazir and Haqqani network.The interior ministry said that Afghan forces were in the restive province to stay. "This time we are not going to just conduct a big operation and leave."
They said that the Afghan forces had gained control of the main road through Kamdesh for the first time in years.
The ministry said that after the combing operations, security personnel would set-up more check-posts to control infiltration of Death Eaters.
The commandos and the coppers descended into the area by helicopters, a defence ministry statement said.
The ministry said the new operation was another example of successful transition of combat operations from the US-led forces to the Afghan Army. "We expect to see more such types of Afghan-led operations in spring and summer."
The defence ministry said that on April 12, 8 Talibs were killed and 19 others apprehended, while on April 11, 5 cut-throats were killed and 18 set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock.
They said the Afghan Police had captured Taliban's deputy shadow governor of southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province 'Janan' who is famous under the name of Syed Ghulam.