On December 14th, the Commander of the Frontier Brigade of the Eastern Region, Haji Zaher, surrendered a significant stockpile of ammunition: 400 boxes of ammunition, 1,648 unboxed ammunition - including 690 mortars rounds and other heavy caliber weapon rounds – as well as anti-personnel landmines. The collected ammunition, handed over to the government of Afghanistan in compliance with the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) process, was verified by the Afghanistan’s New Beginnings Programme (ANBP) teams. Ammunition in good condition will be used by the Government of Afghanistan for the security of the country; unstable ordnance will be destroyed.

By voluntarily surrendering some ammunition, Haji Zaher has partially complied with an instruction from the Ministry of Interior whereby government officials known to illegally detain and use weapons or ammunition have been asked to hand them over to the provincial weapons collection point.

Haji Zaher has demonstrated his willingness to participate in the DIAG process; it is now expected that he will fully comply with DIAG, as stated by his deputy in the speech he gave during the hand over ceremony, where he emphasized Haji Zaher’s readiness to further contribute to DIAG.

The DIAG process was launched on 11June, 2005 when officially announced by Vice President Khalili.
As of 13 December:
- 16,126 weapons, including 14,413 light and 1,713 heavy weapons
- 24,763 pieces of boxed and 54,125 pieces of unboxed ammunition
have been handed over to and verified by ANBP collection teams in Afghanistan.
4,857 of the collected weapons have been handed over by 124 candidates to the parliamentary and provincial council elections.