FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Three people, including a woman, have been brutally killed by a local illegal commander in Karan wa Manjan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday.
Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Ghafori, told Pajhwok Afghan News around 700 illegal armed men commanded by Abdul Malik and Mohammad Sharif were operating in the province.
He said the two commanders, making money by selling lapis lazuli stones from mines, were brutally harassing people.
Two days earlier, a cousin of commander Sharif was killed by unknown gunmen, but Sharif arrested . . .
