Kabul, March 21 (TIWN) At least 36 people were killed in clashes in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, according to a local war monitoring group.

The group said there were also 31 Taliban militants, and four security forces wounded in the cited period.   The casualties came from four violent incidents that took place in four of the country's 34 provinces, according to the RiV figures.   In an unrelated incident, the ANDSF arrested seven Taliban militants during a cleanup operation in Jaji Aryob district of Paktia province on Friday, the Defence Ministry confirmed in a statement earlier in the day.   The statement added that vast areas were cleared off from Taliban in the district, in the mountainous region.