Seven people were wounded Saturday in a grenade attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

A dozen Taliban militants including key commander Mullah Manan were killed as aircraft struck their hideout in Nawa district of Ghazni province on Saturday, provincial governor Mohammad Aman Hamim said.

A dozen Taliban militants including key commander Mullah Manan were killed as aircraft struck their hideout in Nawa district of Ghazni province on Saturday, provincial governor Aman Hamim said.

The month of October has proved difficult for Taliban militants in Afghanistan as its plan to capture the strategically important Kunduz city was foiled by government forces and it also lost its main bastion in Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern Kunduz province.