A Taliban key commander Mullah Zindani was killed in militants’
former stronghold southern Helmand province on Thursday, Interior
Ministry said in a statement released here.
“Acting upon intelligence report, units of police organized an ambush
on a road used by Taliban commander Mullah Zindani in Musa Qala
district today morning and killed him,” said the statement.
Mullah Zindani, according to the statement, was a key commander of
Taliban militants in Musa Qala and the neighboring Kajaki districts and
his elimination blows a major setback to the armed insurgents operating
in southern Afghanistan.
Taliban has yet to make comment.
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