AVA- Javid Ahmad Ghafoor, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), told media the Taliban’s spy Chief Qari Sibghatullah had been killed in airstrike.
He said Sibghatullah was behind attacks on civilians and Afghan forces in Faryab.
Separately, 10 insurgents have been killed and two others injured in Afghan forces attacks in the past two days, a statement from 209th Shaheen Military Corps said.
Seventeen landmines, 80 kilograms of explosives and some weapons captures by security forces during the operations, the statement said.