More than a thousand of commando forces have arrived to Ghazni province to suppress the Taliban group, security officials said.
The backup forces who were deployed to Ghazni city late on Friday night said they will change the city to a Taliban cemetery and the group has suffered heavy casualties so far.
“We have more than two hundred Tanks and we will change Ghazni to a graveyard for Taliban,” Abdul Razaq Safi, the commander of 203 Thunder Corps said.
The attacks began around 2am with intense gun battles raging and fires burning in several shops in Ghazni city.
Taliban militants hiding inside homes in the city’s residential areas slipped into the streets attacking Afghan security forces.