SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Taliban and security officials claimed inflicting causalities on each other after Vice-President Gen. Abdur Rashid’s security guards were attacked on the Shiberghan-Khwaja Dokoh road in northern Jawzjan province.
A firefight erupted after the insurgents assaulted the convoy of Dostum’s guards on its way to Shiberghan, the provincial capital, from Khwaja Dokoh district, said police chief, Brig. Gen. Rahmatullah Turkistani.
He added security personnel, in coordination with Dostum’s bodyguards, chased the Taliban into Dasht-i-Laili area, where rebel commander Ghausuddin . . .
