Kabul: Some 23 Taliban put down their weapons and joined the government in Afghanistan’s Badghis province, some 555 km northwest of capital city of Kabul, local government spokesman said.
“A 23-member group of Taliban have given up insurgency and joined government-initiated peace and reintegration process in Badghis province Monday morning,” Sharrfudin Majidi said.
He said the ex-insurgents, who were active in Qadis and neighboring Sang-e-Hattash district, also handed over 23 their arms to security authorities in the province.
However, the militant group who announced on April 30 to launch spring offensive against Afghan and NATO-led forces have yet to make comments.
In efforts to end the nearly 10-year war and Taliban-led insurgency, Afghan President Hamid Karzai constituted a 70-member High Council for Peace in September 2010 to speed up the government-backed national reconciliation with Taliban and associated militants.
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