A group of armed anti-government militants laid down their arms and resumed their normal life in Baghlan province north of Afghanistan Wednesday, provincial police chief Mohammad Kabir Andarabi said.

"Thirty armed Taliban fighters under the command of Gul Rahman gave up militancy and handed over their arms to authorities this morning," Andarabi told Xinhua.

With the surrendering of these militants government control has been tightened in Deh Salah and surrounding villages, he said.

Meantime, head of the government-backed Commission for Strengthening Peace in north Afghanistan Wazir Gul said that 1,300militants have given up militancy and resumed their normal life since early this year.

Taliban militants have not made comment.