The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has announced that five key members of the Taliban group including the deputy intelligence of the group for Jalriz district have been arrested in Maidan Wardak province.

NDS in a press release on Sunday said that the NDS Special Unit forces have conducted an operation on Taliban’s hideouts in Ahmad Khail and Muhammad Noor Khail villages of Jalriz district.

According to the press release, the Taliban’s in charge of collecting charities are also among the detainees.
Afghan security forces also seized a number of military equipment during the operation, the press release added.