KABUL, Afghanistan — A joint U.S. and Afghan military operation in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province killed two al-Qaida-linked leaders and led to the capture of a third, a government official said Thursday.
Paktika provincial governor’s spokesman Mohammad Rahman Ayaz said the battle in a remote mountainous region on the border with Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region raged throughout the night and into the day Thursday.
The two men who were killed were identified by Ayaz and militants with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan as Asad Mehsud and Gul Wali Mehsud. Jamal Mehsud was arrested. Mehsud is a tribe that lives in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal areas.
Ayaz said the operation, which took place in Paktika’s Barmal district on the border with Pakistan, began shortly before midnight and continued until the early afternoon.
Meanwhile in Kabul, several hundred young Afghans demonstrated on Thursday, demanding the country’s president and chief executive resign because of the deteriorating security situation, particularly in the Afghan capital.
Calling their group the Uprising for Change, they briefly blocked traffic and shouted slogans demanding government officials resign.
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