- KABUL (Online) - The Taliban
militia on Sunday claimed to have killed seven coalition soldiers in Zabul
Province in southwestern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Press reported.
-
- The report quoted Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefuddin
Hakeemi as saying that seven coalition soldiers were killed in a clash
late Saturday in a village in the Dai Chopan area of the province.
-
- He added that U.S. military aircraft later bombed the
area but there was no report of casualties.
-
- U.S.-led troops claimed to have killed 12 Taliban on
Friday in the same area while conducting a search operation.
-
- Mayor seriously wounded in Afghan Taleban attack
-
- The mayor of a southern Afghan province was seriously
wounded along with a bodyguard when suspected Taleban guerrillas blew up
his car, a spokesman said on Monday.
-
- The attack on Haji Manaf Khan, the mayor of Helmand province,
occurred in the provincial capital Lashkargar on Sunday, said provincial
spokesman Haji Mohammad Wali, Reuters reports.
-
- "His car was blown up by a remote controlled mine,"
he said. "He was seriously wounded along with a bodyguard. We arrested
one Taleban on the spot."
-
- Hundreds have died in militant-related violence in Afghanistan
this year and a 20,000-strong US-led military force pursuing the Taleban
and its allies has warned of further attacks in the run-up to elections
expected later in the year.
-
- The militants have vowed to disrupt what are billed as
Afghanistan's first-ever free elections, the timing of which remains unclear.
-
- The polls have already been delayed from June due to
security fears and the slow pace of voter registration.
-
- President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly said he wants the
presidential and parliamentary polls in September, but under the election
law a date has to be announced 90 days in advance, a dealine that has already
expired.
-
- Unless the vote is held by mid-October, it would have
to be delayed until spring, given the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and
the onset of winter.
-
- Disclaimer: The PakTribune will put up as many of your
comments as possible but we cannot guarantee that all comments will be
published. The PakTribune reserves the right to edit comments that are
published.
|
