Three militants killed in S. Afghanistan

Three Taliban militants including a group commander Mullah Mohibullah have been killed in Shah Walikot district of the southern Kandahar province, said a statement of provincial government released here on Wednesday.

According to the statement, Mohibullah and his two fighters had been killed in Kekhi Kotal area of Shah Walikot district after the security forces targeted militants' hideouts on Tuesday afternoon.

Huge quantity of arms and ammunitions of the insurgents were also destroyed during the raid, the statement said.

Kandahar, the birthplace of Taliban militants, has been the scene of violent insurgency over the past more than a decade.

Meantime, Abdul Ali Shamsi the deputy to Kandahar provincial government in a security meeting on Wednesday termed Taliban as a defeated terror network and called upon security forces to check the activities of terrorists elsewhere in the relatively restive province. Enditem