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60 dead in snow-blocked Salang pass Farid Tanha - Feb 9, 2010 - 17:00CHARIKAR (PAN): At least 60 people including women and children have been killed and as many injured in the Salang pass in Parwan province, north of Kabul, officials said on Tuesday.
Three ISAF soldiers perish in blast, clash with militants
Pajhwok Report - Feb 9, 2010 - 17:34KABUL (PAN): Three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers have perished in roadside bomb blasts and a clash with insurgents in Afghanistan, NATO announced on Tuesday.
 
AI opposes impunity for war criminals
S. Mudassir Ali Shah - Feb 9, 2010 - 14:40KABUL (PAN): An international human rights watchdog has sought the suspension of a law giving immunity from prosecution for serious violations of human rights, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed over the past three decades of conflict.
 
 
 
 

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Ghazni farmers call for construction of water reservoirs ‎GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Farmers and officials in the southern province of Ghazni ‎have urged the government to construct water reservoirs to be used during drought ‎any time. ‎
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Iran accused of assisting Afghan TalibanLONDON (PAN): A senior British official has said Iran was actively involved in deteriorating security scenario in Afghanistan, a country devastated by decades of strife.
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Pajhwok Photo Service


GARDEZ, Feb 9, 2010: An elderly man with a white turban happily looks at the camera while shifting a burden of firewood that he had collected from a nearby mountain as to use it for warming his home here in Merzaka district of southeastern Paktia province. The incessant snowfalls in various provinces of Afghanis had claimed lives of large number of people and forced residents to collect firewood from mountains. PAJHWOK/Lemar Niazai