Equipments seized from Taliban medical facility in Wardak

Monitoring Desk

KABUL: The local government and security officials in central Maidan Wardak province put on display the equipments seized from a medical facility belonging to the Taliban insurgents. The equipments were displayed in the presence of the provincial police chief and other high level government and security officials.

According to the local officials, the treatment facility was discovered an operation in Syedabad district on Thursday. The officials further added that the facility was used for the treatment of the Taliban insurgents from different provinces including Paktia, Ghazni, and other restive parts of the country.

The facility, which was well-equipped, was used for the treatment of the wounded Taliban insurgents besides sophisticated surgeries were performed, the officials added. According to the officials, several Taliban insurgents including some of their commanders were killed during the operation and some weapons and ammunition were also seized.

The anti-government armed militant groups including the Taliban insurgents have not commented regarding the report so far. Maidan Wardak is among the relatively volatile provinces in central parts of the country, located close to capital Kabul.

The anti-government armed militants are actively operating in its various districts and often carry out insurgency activities, mainly in the districts lying along the highway connecting Kabul with the southeastern and southern provinces. A top leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network was killed along with dozens of other militants in an operation in this province late last month.