Afghan Taliban threat shuts Helmand mobile network

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Source: BBC

All mobile telephone networks have been switched off in the Afghan province of Helmand after a Taliban threat.

Correspondents say that the decision of mobile companies to obey the order reflects the militants' power in one of Afghanistan's most restive areas.

Helmand has been at the centre of Nato's effort to fight the Taliban.

On Tuesday President Karzai announced that his forces would take over security from the coalition in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, from July.

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