Afghan violence: Taliban attack NATO airbase

JALALABAD:

Militants injured two security forces personnel in a grenade attack Monday on a major Nato airbase at an airport in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the local police chief said.

“A few men threw hand grenades at the airport gate and the troops returned fire and the attackers fled,” said Sardar Sultani, the police chief for Nangrahar province, of which Jalalabad is the capital. Two members of the security forces were injured, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 26^th, 2011.