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May 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The incident occurred when a group of Taliban militants armed with weapons targeted a number of governmental buildings in the city of Sharan, the provincial capital of Paktika on Sunday night, Paktia governor Mohebollah Samim said.
The militants seized a building at 7:00 p.m, and from there targeted Pakita governor office, police center and the intelligence office.
The fighting ended early Monday after all Taliban fighters were killed in the gun battle. A civilian was also injured in the violence.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the recent violence, claiming a large number of Afghan police forces have been killed in the fighting.
This is while, 17 other Taliban fighters were slain in less than a week in separate combat operations in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand.
The Taliban have announced that their annual “spring offensive” across Afghanistan has begun and threatened to target US-led NATO troops and Afghan security forces.
The recent violence came as two American lawmakers, who recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, acknowledged that militancy has gained momentum since the United States surged the number of its troops in the war-ravaged country.
The senior US officials’ comments, however, flies in the face of a last week report to Congress by the US Defense Department that had asserted President Barack Obama’s dispatch of 33,000 extra troops to Afghanistan in 2010 had weakened the Taliban.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan was launched in 2001. The offensives removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence of thousands of foreign troops in the country.
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