(Arman-e-Milli) A Taleban commander has surrendered to the government in the southern province of Khost, local officials said on June 28. The head of the National Intelligence directorate for Khost, Sadiq Tarakhil, said that Mullah Osmanullah Osman from the Yaqubi district had surrendered and pledged to support the Afghan government. Mullah Osman was alleged to have ties with the Taleban and to have carried out attacks on government and Coalition troops. "His house has been raided several times by the Coalition Forces because of his relationship with the Taleban," said Tarakhil. But Osman denied the charges, insisting he has never been involved in anti-government violence. "My personal opponents have misled US forces just to take revenge," he said.
(Arman-e-Milli is an independent daily.)
Truck loaded with arms seized in Ghor
(Cheragh) Troops from the 207th Corps of the Afghan National Army seized three trucks loaded with arms and munitions in the western province of Ghor on June 28, said defence ministry spokesman Zaher Murad. The military have not yet established who the trucks belong to or where they were heading. In a recent operation in the Shindand district of the western province of Herat, troops from the same corps recovered a number of assault rifles. These arms seizures take place at a time of increasing militancy in the southern province of Kandahar in which over 170 suspected Taleban rebels were killed in a five-day operation in Mian Nishin district, ending on June 23.
(Cheragh is an independent daily run by the Development and Democracy Association.)
Four Pakistanis detained in Sar-e-Pul
(Anis) Police in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul have detained four Pakistani nationals including one woman for not having proper documents, local officials said. Provincial Police Chief Nader Ali Fahim said that police arrested the Pakistanis as they were entering the city. The group, all from Punjab, are being interrogated.
(Anis is a state-run daily published mostly in Dari.)
Jawed Ludin appointed to head president's office
(Hewad) President Hamed Karzai has issued a decree appointing Jawed Ludin as head of his office, Bakhtar Afghan News reported. Ludin, 33, has a degree in social and political sciences from a British university and worked for various international media and development organisations. For the past two years he has been Karzai's spokesman and headed the presidential press office. It is not clear who is going to replace him as spokesman, the report said.
(Hewad is a state-run daily published mostly in Pashtu.)
More female suicide attempts in west
(Erada) A women and a girl in the western city of Herat were rushed to hospital in a critical condition after they attempted suicide by dousing themselves with petrol, hospital officials said. Mohammad Rafiq Shirzai, a doctor at Herat hospital, said Shirin Gul, 22, from Shindand district had burns over 54 per cent of her body and Malalai, 16, a teenager from Bagh-e-Azadi, had 50 per cent burns. Medics and relatives said family problems led both of them to attempt self-immolation.
(Erada is an independent daily run by the Afghan Media and Resource Centre.)
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