48 policement arrested for helping taliban

On Monday the Afghanistan Interior Ministry arrested 48 policemen from the province of Farah for helping the taliban. Another 12 policemen had defected to the taliban. A taliban spokesman claimed 35 had defected to them.

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HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Afghan government disarmed and arrested about 50 Afghan policemen, suspected of corruption and helping the Taliban, while a dozen others defected to the Taliban, a provincial official said on Tuesday.

The police were in charge of security posts in the western province of Farah where a resurgent Taliban insurgency has flared in recent years.

"We arrested some 48 policemen for their unlawful actions on Monday, but 12 others handed themselves over to the Taliban," provincial deputy governor Mohammad Younis Rasooli told Reuters.