Suspected militant killed in Afghan bombing

A clash between police and insurgents left one suspected militant dead in the southeast, while Taliban militants kidnapped a local leader from his home and shot him to death, officials said today.

Suspected militant killed in Afghan bombing

A clash between police and insurgents left one suspected militant dead in the southeast, while Taliban militants kidnapped a local leader from his home and shot him to death, officials said today.

The insurgents took Mullah Ahmed Akhunzada, the director of a provincial clerics council, from his home and killed him last night in Tirin Kot, said Uruzgan provincial police chief Gen Qasim Khan.

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