The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said that a pre-emptive airstrike destroyed a Humvee Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) which the Taliban militants planned to use in a deadly Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack in Maimana city of Faryab Province, reports The Khaama Press on May 15. The statement further added that the security traced the Humvee APC in Makhshi Khesht Village of Pashtun Kot District and subsequently destroyed it by conducting an airstrike.