KABUL, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Police on Monday discovered and destroyed some mines separately planted in two districts of eastern Afghan province of Paktia, said a statement of Interior Ministry of Afghanistan released here on Tuesday.

    The statement said those mines were supposed to be set up by the "enemy of peace and stability," which usually hints to Talibanin surgents, for launching terrorist attacks on Afghan and foreign troops.

    Conflicts and Taliban-related insurgency left more than 6,000 people dead in 2007.