Xinhua reports on seemingly normal operations by Afghan security forces in Kandahar.
Furthermore, 171 Taliban militants, including several foreign militants, had been killed during nine-day battle in Zharay district of southern Kandahar province which began on July 27, provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq told reporters there earlier on the day.
Afghan forces make gains in fight against Taliban militants, Xinhua
Xinhua helpfully suggests what is notorious in the story.
Kandahar and Helmand are notorious for poppy growing and militancy.
But Khaama Press reports that
notorious American-supported strongman, General Abdul Raziq, leading the operation, is taking no prisoners.
Kandahar police chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq, has ordered to execute Taliban detainees who are arrested during the military operations.
Gen. Raziq was speaking to reporters following an operation against Taliban militants in Zherai district of southern Kandahar province.
At least 171 Taliban militants were killed and nearly 40 others were injured during the operations in Zherai district, where around 300 Taliban militants launched an offensive around two weeks ago.
Kandahar police chief orders execution of militants arrested during operations, Khaama
And Radio Free Europe reports the background, of a long running war of retaliation with a tribal dimension.
A deepening blood feud between the clan of a powerful Afghan provincial security chief and the Taliban has resulted in a series of assassinations in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Locals and politicians in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province say that scores of recent murders in the region's northern districts are the result of tit-for-tat killings between the supporters of General Abdul Raziq and Afghan Taliban hiding in Balochistan.
A source from Balochistan’s capital Quetta who requested anonymity told Gandhara that since late last year the Taliban have been systematically targeting people who come from Raziq's clan. Raziq, the powerful security chief of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, comes from the Adozai clan, which is a branch of the large Achakzai Pashtun tribe, which lives across southwestern Pakistan and southern Afghanistan.
"Since late last year we have seen an increase in 'kill and dump' murders in Balochistan's relatively peaceful Pashtun districts, which have been home to Afghan refugees for more than three decades," he said. "Almost all of those killed were Pashtuns with links to the administration in Kandahar and Kabul."
Simmering Feud Triggers String Of Assassinations in Balochistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Raziq had been the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt two weeks ago.
The six attackers, all of whom were wearing suicide vests, launched Sunday's attack from a school building near General Abdul Razeq's house in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, but were shot before they could enter the residence, Zia Durani, provincial police spokesman, said.
Taliban claims attack on police official, Al-Jazeera
The assassination attempt, and the launch of Raziq's take no prisoners operation, in the long running feud, had been on the same day.
This was the day before the assassination of Hashmat Karzai, in Kandahar.
U.S.-supported warlords have long been saying that the U.S. has failed to provide security, and that they should be unleashed on the Taliban. As U.S.-supported warlords contribute, in Afghanistan, to a culture of violence and impunity and insecurity and factional division.