KABUL, Apr 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Fighting in Afghanistan continued with heavy casualties reported since Monday, amid repeated calls for observance of cease-fire in the Muslims’ fasting month of holy Ramadan.
In the latest reports of violent incidents, Taliban militants stormed a security base in Dahna-e-Ghori district of northern Baghlan province, yesterday, killing six security personnel and injuring nine others, district governor, Qasim Khan, said.
Nearly a dozen militants were also reported killed and injured, in the firefight lasting six hours.
Five Afghan army soldiers and seven militants were killed and six others, including two soldiers and four insurgents, sustained injuries in the fighting, in Balkh’s Chamtal district, late Monday night.
Taliban militants executed three captured soldiers in Zibak district of northern Badakhshan province, yesterday morning, provincial government spokesman, Nik Mohammad Nazari, said.
Two militants, according to an army statement, were killed in eastern Wardak province on Monday.
Exchanges of fire between government forces and Taliban militants have been continuing, while Ramadan started yesterday with calls for observance of a cease-fire during the fasting month.
Afghan President, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, yesterday repeated the call, urging the Taliban outfit to halt fighting and observe cease-fire during the religious fasting month, to bolster the peace process.
“Once again I am calling upon the Taliban to give up fighting, enmity and observe permanent ceasefire, which is the demand of the people of Afghanistan,” Ghani said in his message, to mark the start of Ramadan, broadcast by local television channels.– NNN-AGENCIES
