Several former Mujahidin or holy warriors have handed over their weapons totaling over 200 pieces to the government in Afghanistan's northeast Badakhshan province, provincial governor Abdul Majid said Sunday.
"These Mujahidin voluntarily have laid down their arms over the past couple of weeks in order to help stabilize security and accelerate reconstruction process," Majid told Xinhua.
The weapons, handed in to the government, he added, include heavy and light weapons, mostly assault rifle Kalashnikov.
He said that more than 4,000 pieces of various kinds of arms had been collected from the people in Badakhshan province over the past three years under a nationwide disarmament program.
Badakhshan, a mountainous province bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan is one of the peaceful provinces of Afghanistan.
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