GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Residents of southeastern Paktia province on Tuesday asked the government to stop nighttime security operations and airstrikes because civilians often suffered casualties in such raids.
The residents of Zazi Aryub district, accompanied by residents of other areas, held a protest gathering in Gardez, the provincial capital, against civilian casualties in recent nighttime operations.
The participants included tribal elders and youth who claimed so far more than 10 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in what they said ‘ill-informed night raids and imprecise . . .
