SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Local security officials on Wednesday said Taliban militants had fled Qush Tapa district of northern Jawzjan province before Gen. Abdur Rashid Dostum reached there.
The first vice-president on Tuesday moved into Qush Tapa district with thousands of security forces for clearing the district of militants.
Before their departure, Dostum told security forces in Shebrghan, the capital of Jawzjan, they would first avenge Afghan soldiers beheaded by militants in Qush Tapa.
Gen. Reza Rezai, spokesman for the 209th Military Corps in the northern . . .
