Officials detained for arming Taliban

Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry spokesman Daulat Waziri said on Saturday that “The Army Brigade Facility Manager in Kunar and three of his staff who had gathered weapons” and sought to deliver then to militants “were arrested with the help intelligence officials.”

This is while Waziri rejected the detainees’ involvement in planning or launching terrorist attacks.

The development came as a recent report shows that militant attacks in Afghanistan have increased by 11 percent during the past three months in comparison with the corresponding period last year.

The figures, which the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) released on Thursday, also reveal that the month of June alone accounted for the highest number of attacks in nearly two years, with more than 3,000 assaults.

Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of some 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.

The US-led war in Afghanistan, which has caused record-high civilian and military casualties, has become the longest military conflict in the American history.

Overall, 3,021 civilians died in violence related to the war and 4,507 were wounded in 2011.

Washington invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the pretext of combating terrorism.

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