The Afghan forces thwarted militants bid to detonate an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Kabul.

The Kabul Police Headquarters in a statement said the police force discovered and defused an IED in Shakar Dara district of Kabul.
The statement further added that the militants had planted the remote-controlled IED in Qala-e-Dasht Village to target the innocent civilians.
However, the Kabul Police Headquarters said the police forces managed to discover and defuse the bomb before it goes off.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented in this regard so far.