North Waziristan is a restive tribal area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
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After a search operation, it was announced that the attackers had fled the area.
“Important military mujahideen officials have been freed”, he said.
The insurgents have attacked jails to free hundreds of prisoners including their comrades on several occasions, in both Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan. “First they detonated a auto bomb in front of the gate, fired an RPG and then raided the prison”, Ahmadi told AFP. At least four police guards were killed and seven others wounded, and three Taliban fighters were also killed.
The Afghan Interior Ministry claimed that among the escapees, around 148 were accused of national and worldwide security crimes, while 207 were guilty of criminal offences.
Mullah Najibullah, who leads a splinter Taliban group Fidai Mahaz, also claimed that Omar was “poisoned”, the Express Tribune reported.
“Our enemy is the US-backed Afghan government”, he said.
The Taliban in July formally confirmed Mullah Omar had been lifeless for greater than two years, after the Afghan spy company leaked the information.
A Reuters reporter outside the mud fort prison in Ghazni, 120 km (75 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, saw the bodies of two men who appeared to be suicide bombers and a blown-up vehicle that had apparently been used to destroy the main entrance.
The Taliban rebels entered the jail with a vehicle loaded with explosives and blew these up in front of the prison in addition to firing rocket-propelled grenades.
Aziz said the announcement of Mullah Omar’s death had caused the suspension of talks.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last December and pulled out the bulk of its troops although a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.
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According to Afghanistan, their forces continue to fight across the country, but have taken a severe hit to morale as causalities continue to rise to record highs, up a staggering 50 per cent from 2014 figures.
