Officials said Mr Baloch was not at home at the time.
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A security official in Shorabak district said the militants wanted to capture the district because they were in huge numbers and laced with light and heavy weapons. “Our security forces are conducting house-to-house searches”, Brigadier General Ghulam Sakhi Ghafoori, a senior commander of provincial civil order police force, told Xinhua.
The Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility forthe attack, saying it killed a number of foreign troops. The current Afghan government risks losing nationwide trust, if it continues to alienate tribes that often implicitly back the Taliban. Afghan News Agency on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook.
The United States of America has been supporting Afghan forces in an offensive to retake the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban, which seized control of the northern city late last month. “However, Taliban militants still remain in parts of the city”. A bitter internal dispute over the appointment of his successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, has yet to be fully resolved, but seems to have had little impact on the battlefield. Local reports suggest it was a vehicle bomb.
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Resolute Support is a NATO-led mission to train and assist Afghan security forces and institutions, following the stand-down of the worldwide Security Assistance Force (ISAF) previous year.
