KABUL, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Police in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province detained a Taliban commander who was in charge of facilitating and carrying out suicide bombings in the restive province, said a statement of the Interior Ministry released Wednesday.

    "Mullah Assadullah who served as the in-charge of organizing suicide attacks and terrorist activities in Kandahar province was nabbed on Monday," the statement said.

    Taliban militants have not made comment so far.

    Over a dozen people including 10 Taliban insurgents and six police had been killed in Kandahar the former stronghold of Taliban since late weekend.

    Conflicts and Taliban-related violence have left over 400 people dead so far this year in war-torn Afghanistan, where Taliban militants recently have vowed to launch the "Spring offensive" to intensify their guerrilla-style attacks on national army and foreign troops.(Editor: Song Shutao)