Taliban-linked terror network busted in Kabul

KABUL: A nine-member Taliban-linked terrorist network has been busted in Kabul, the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) confirmed.

"The personnel of NDS conducted an operation recently in Kabul, arresting a nine-member terrorist network. The group had links with the Taliban terrorist group," Xinhua news agency quoted the NDS, Afghanistan's national intelligence agency, as saying in a social media post on Monday. The agency however, did not provide further details.

The development came as several people have been killed or maimed as a result of terror attacks in the capital city in recent weeks.

On May 8, more than 50 people, mostly children, were killed and dozens others wounded in a car bomb blast and two ensuing explosions outside a girls' high school in west Kabul.

The Afghan Army's Special Forces arrested Nematullah, a prominent local leader of the Taliban outfit, in Shindand district of western Herat province on Sunday, the Defence Ministry confirmed. (IANS)

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