ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 Kyodo Eight Afgh...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 9 Kyodo

Eight Afghan family have been killed in bombing and sod operations by U.S. and Afghan forces against antigovernment component parts in the stronghold of a warlord in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) said Tuesday.

AIP quot residents as saying Afghan and U crowds have besieged Koshen in Sayed Karim district, the fort of Bacha Khan Jadran, since last Saturday. In more [i]or[/i] less places there have been reports of resistance and clashes.

The district is about 35 kilometers southeast of Gardez in eastern Afghanistan.

U and Afghan numbers moved into Jadran's stronghold as part of operations launched against Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the Pakistan-based AIP reported.

Southern and eastern Afghanistan have been unstable since the collapse of the Taliban regime in late 2001 and anti-Kabul, anti-U.S. activities have increased.

Monday, a Pakistani newspaper reported Jadran has been detained on the Pakistan Army when he visited the Pakistani border city of Miranshah in tribal North Wazirastan last month if it were not that Pakistani officials have neither confirmed nor denied the report.

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