[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops killed 25 bully boyz during an intense battle in Maruf district of Kandahar on Saturday night.The Ministry of Interior in a statement said the Talibs launched a major offensive on Maruf district compound by detonating four boom-mobiles.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
the interior ministry said the security forces effectively responded to the assault and killed 25 bully boyz during an intense shootout.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti...
the Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan Achakzai confirmed that Talibs detonated boom-mobiles during an attack on Maruf district compound.
Gen. Tadin Khan further added that some security personnel also bit the dust during the attack.
Ghani Slams Taliban Attack That Killed Eight Civilians
[ToloNews] President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...in a statement on Sunday condemned the Taliban’s bombings in the southern province of Kandahar that killed at least 11 people, eight of them the employees of the provincial office of the Independent Election Commission.
The attack was carried out by four attackers who drove explosive-laden Humvees, targeting the district governor’s compound in Maroof district of Kandahar province, the provincial police chief Gen. Tadeen Khan said.
Khan said the attack was carried out at early 2 am on Sunday. It was followed by few hours of clashes between other attackers and the security forces, he added.
Hours after the attack, the provincial police spokesman Jamal Barikzai said that the attack left 11 dead and 27 others wounded.
He said that 17 Taliban fighters were killed in the attack.
Ghani said in the statement that attacking a civilian institution which is working for institutionalizing democracy in the country, is an inhuman and unforgivable act. However, he did not mention the Taliban in his statement.
“Terrorists are targeting civilians and public institutions to hide their defeat on the battlefields,” Ghani said, adding that “but they should know that they will not reach their notorious ends by such acts.”
Maroof is a remote and the most insecure district in Kandahar and more parts of it are under Taliban’s influence.
| Al Ahram adds: |
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman said the fighters killed election commission employees and 57 members of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF). They also captured 11 others with five vehicles and a large cache of weapons during the attack at the district centre.
But Afghan government officials said the Taliban had exaggerated the casualty figures.