{"id":6826,"date":"2018-12-19T16:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6826-taliban-s-red-unit-commander-for-5-provinces-has-been-killed-in-paktika\/"},"modified":"2018-12-19T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:12:26","slug":"taliban-s-red-unit-commander-for-5-provinces-has-been-killed-in-paktika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/6826-taliban-s-red-unit-commander-for-5-provinces-has-been-killed-in-paktika\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s Red Unit Commander for 5 provinces has been killed in Paktika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Unit Commander of the Taliban group who was in charge of the group\u2019s activities in five provinces has been killed in an operation of the Afghan Commandos in Paktika province.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The Red Unit Commander of the Taliban group who was in charge of the group\u2019s activities in five provinces has been killed in an operation of the Afghan Commandos in Paktika province.<\/h4>\n<h4>Defense Ministry spokesman Ghafoor Ahmad Javid confirmed the killing of Bilal Zadran, the Red Unit Commander of Taliban during an operation late on Tuesday night.<\/h4>\n<h4>Javid further added that Zadran was in charge of the Red Unit activities of Taliban in Khost, Paktika, Ghazni, Logar, and Paktika provinces.<\/h4>\n<h4>According to Javid, Zadran had major role in planning and executing terrorist related activities in the named provinces.<\/h4>\n<h4>This comes as the Afghan armed forces have stepped up offensive operation against the armed militants during the recent months.<\/h4>\n<h4>The Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan (NSC) had earlier ordered the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to increase raids against the Taliban militants.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Unit Commander of the Taliban group who was in charge of the group\u2019s activities in five provinces has been killed in an operation of the Afghan Commandos in Paktika province. \u00a0 \u00a0 The Red Unit Commander of the Taliban group who was in charge of the group\u2019s activities in five provinces has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,670,44,516],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-kill","tag-taliban","tag-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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