GHAZNI: An Afghan governor said Monday that security forces had recaptured a remote southern district that had been overrun by Taliban guerrillas.

Militants stormed Khogyani district in the troubled province of Ghazni late Sunday, seizing the local administration, provincial governor Musa Khan Akbarzada told reporters.

“This morning our national security forces — police, army and intelligence — mobilised and took back the control of the district,” he said in Ghazni, the provincial capital.

“Our security forces are stationed in the district. They are in control now,” he said, declining to give further details.

He said Afghan officials were investigating possible casualties among the local administrators and a small police contingent based in the district.

The Taliban are waging a war against the more than 150,000 foreign, mostly US, troops that are deployed in the country to end the insurgency that began with Afghanistan’s invasion in 2001. — AFP