Personnel of Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) have arrested ten terrorists elsewhere in the country over the past four weeks, spokesman of NDS Lutfullah Mashal said on Tuesday.
"The successful operations conducted by NDS workforce resulted in the neutralization of 10 terrorists including six in capital Kabul who have been responsible for dozen of terrorist attacks," Mashal told newsmen at a press conference here.
A group of six terrorists who were detained in Shakar Dara district in outskirts of Kabul have confessed they were members of Haqqani network and were behind several suicide bomb attacks in Kabul, he emphasized.
The terrorists are responsible for a series of suicide attacks, including attacks on Indian Embassy and in Kabul's diplomatic area in late 2009, and attacks on an Indian guest house in February 2010, he asserted.
The spokesman of NDS or intelligence agency also said that security force have detained two terrorist Mullah Abdul Qadir and Abdul Halim alias Abid from northern Afghanistan.
Both terrorist confessed that they were member of Taliban group and initiated a suicide bomb attack in early October 2010 that left governor of northern Kunduz province Mohammad Omar and 18 others dead.
On fighting against terrorist groups and Taliban, Mashal said the remaining two terrorist the head of military commission of Taliban in western Herat province, Abdul Karim and Nasratullah have detained in Herat province over past 20 days.
According to Mashal NDS personnel also foiled a potential terror attack when they seized and defused a vehicle loaded with hundreds kg of explosive in Herat province.