News - Afghanistan
Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:05
More than 40 insurgents and 12 Tajikistan army soldiers were killed in a massive operation of the Tajikistan government against insurgents based near border with Afghanistan.
The Tajik government said that 12 soldiers and 40 militants were killed during the operation launched in the Gorno-Badakhshan province.
Tajik local officials said that the commander of a special forces unit and eight Afghan insurgents were among the dead.
Tajikistan's chief military prosecutor Khairullo Saidov was wounded in the foot during the fighting, the official said.
The military operation is continuing through Wednesday.
It was launched after Abdullo Nazarov, a general with Tajikistan's national intelligence service, was stabbed to death Saturday in Ishkashim, some 520 kilometers east of the capital, Dushanbe.
