By NNN-Xinhua,
Kabul : Maulawi Abdul Malik, a senior insurgent leader, has been killed in eastern Afghan province of Logar during an operation led by Afghan troops, the NATO-led military said here.
he operation was conducted on May 27 to disrupt bomb-making cells and operations throughout the region, according to a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The ISAF said the militant’s group is linked to the burning down of two girls’ schools and threats to locals attending English and computer courses.
The killing of Malik will “deal a significant blow to the insurgents’ capacity to attack Afghan and ISAF security forces,” ISAF Spokesmen Brigadier General Carlos Branco was quoted as saying in the statement.
Hard-line tribal persons in Afghanistan’s some remote regions often prohibited girls from attending schools and in extreme cases even burnt down schools.