Residents of Bati Kot district said held a protest on Saturday and closed the Jalalabad-Torkham road to traffic. Four members of the public uprising forces, including their commander, were killed in a clash against the Taliban in Bati Kot district of the province that according to its residents has become vulnerable in terms of security in recent days.

Taliban says they are not in a position to prevent drug smuggling in areas under their influence. Militant groups such as Taliban, al Qaeda and Daesh “are the main backers of drug trafficking” in Afghanistan, the counter-narcotics department of the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday.

Nangarhar residents on Saturday blocked the Jalalabad-Torkham road on Saturday in protest against the increasing levels of insecurity. Following raise of insecurity in Nangarhar resident blocked Jalalabd-Torkham road in Bati Kot district.

Mullah Nazem, Taliban’s designated governor for Faryab was killed in an explosion on Friday night, Faryab police said. Nazem and six others were killed when their own explosive device detonated in Dawlat Abad district, police added.

Abdul Hafiz Mansoor, a member of government’s negotiating team, said on Saturday the Taliban has no plan in place to govern, but their “power-hungry and narrow-minded spirit has not changed.”