KABUL's shadow governor for a strategic town in northern Kunduz province has been killed along with 42 other militants in a military offensive, the army said on Sunday.
Security forces launched the operation -- Thunder 14 -- to retake Khanabad district that was seized by the insurgents a day earlier after heavy clashes, the Afghan National Army (ANA) said.
A statement from ANA's 209th Shaheen Corps said: "The security forces, backed by the army's air power, killed 43 militants and injured 14 others in Khanabad . . .
