6 insurgents killed, 30 arrested in Afghanistan

Afghan and NATO-led Coalition forces during military operations have killed six insurgents and captured 30 other suspected militants in different parts of the country, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. "Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army and Coalition Forces launched 13 joint operations in surrounding areas of the Kabul, Laghman, Kunar, Kunduz, Faryab, Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Logar, Paktika and Paktia provinces over the past 24 hours, " the ministry said in a statement provides daily operational updates. "As a result of these operations, six armed insurgent were killed, one wounded and 30 others were arrested by ANP," it said. According to the statement, joint forces also discovered and confiscated four AK-47 guns, one pistol, one rifle, 3,200 heavy machine gun bullets and one radio handset besides defusing six anti-vehicle mines in the same raids. The Taliban insurgents, who stepped up their attacks on Afghan troops and about 130,000 NATO-led Coalition troops stationed in the country since a spring rebel offensive in May this year, has yet to make comments. In another development, unknown armed men shot and killed two women in Guzara district of country's western Herat province on Monday, administrative chief of Guzara district, Nisar Ahmad Popul said on Tuesday. "The bullet-ridden bodies of two women including a young lady were found late on Monday in adjoining area of Guzara district," Popul told Xinhua, adding police had launched an investigation into the case but the motive behind the murder had not been cleared at the moment. Afghan women have often been suffering domestic violence while the Taliban, who banned women from education and working outside the house in their regime from 1996 to 2001 and also warned the women for working in government and other aid agencies around the country.