More than 400 Taliban fighters attacked on Afghan police checks posts in eastern Nuristan province on Tuesday, local officials said.
Gen. Shams-ur-Rahman Zahid, police chief of Nuristan province said that more than four hundred Taliban fighters including Pakistanis have attacked on Wama district at 10:00 am local time and clashes still continue.
Two Afghan policemen have been wounded in the clashes and there are no reports about the Taliban casualties, he added.
Gen Zahid said that they contacted the central government to help them, but the government has not yet deployed more troops to the province.
There are few Nato or Afghan soldiers in mountainous Nuristan, near the Pakistan border.
Taliban fighters have previously attacked on districts in the province and captured some of the districts for some weeks.
Taliban had warned that they would start spring offensives and target government buildings, Afghan police check posts and foreign forces in the country.
The attack happened as several Taliban fighters recently attacked government buildings in Kandahar where 23 militants were killed.
Kandahar officials had said that two civilians, two Afghan policemen were killed and nearly 50 civilians, 12 policemen, 11 security forces and two Afghan soldiers were wounded in the attacks.
The clashes continued for two days ending on Monday and Afghan forces took control of the areas.
Violence is increasing as foreign forces are to hand over security responsibilities of seven areas to Afghan forces in July this year.
