Photo from. www.xinhuanet.com KABUL — Scores of Taliban fighters have been killed over the past 24 hours as government forces have kept on pressure on militants elsewhere in the insurgency-plagued country, officials said Sunday.

In the latest waves of crackdowns against militants, the government forces stormed Taliban hideouts in Baharak district of the northern Takhar province late Saturday night, killing at least eight militants and injuring three others.

The government forces backed by aircrafts, according to Ghulam Hazrat Karimi, an army spokesman in the northern region, raided Taliban trenches in Baharak district late Saturday night, killing eight armed insurgents on the spot and injuring three others.

Similarly, the security forces, in crackdown against militants in Dihrawud district of southern Uruzgan province have killed 14 armed militants over the past 24 hours, an army official in the province, Maj. Yahya Alawi claimed. Xinhua