خبرونه - افغانستان

Three suicide attack planners were captured on Kabul - Jabalseraj highway, while they were trying to escape to Pakistan, a spokesman for the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), said on Tuesday.

These men were involved in suicide attacks which killed high ranking government officials in the north of the country, the NDS spokesman, Lutfullah Mashal said.

They are men of Qari Abdul Rahim, a local Taliban commander in Takhar who deserted to Pakistan.

The men were responsible for conducting terrorist activities throughout the province, Mr Mashal added.

Attacks which killed 303 Pamir zone Commander, General Dawood Dawood, Former Provincial Police Chief of Kandahar Shah Jahan Noori, Former Provincial Governor of Kunduz Mohammad Omer and a member of Afghan parliament Abdul Mutaleb Baig, were organised by the detained men, according to the NDS.

"The NDS managed to capture the murderer of Mutaleb Baig who was assassinated several months ago," Lutfullah Mashal added.

"I got familiar with one of the Taliban members Qari Abdul Rahim in Shamshatu area of Pakistan," one of the arrestees said.

They were helping other terrorist networks in Kunduz, Badakhshan and parts of Baghlan province," the NDS spokesman added.

Another terrorist network was captured in Kabul, Lutfullah Mashal, told reporters in Kabul on Tuesday.

These men were planning to attack several high profile buildings in Kabul, he added.

Meanwhile, Mr Mashal said that recently some of the regional intelligence and terrorist networks are trying to defame NDS among Afghan people by accusing the department of making baseless accusations.