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    Governance May 20, 2013 - 23:26

    Azimi predicts dramatic surge in suicide attacks

    KABUL (PAN): The Defence Ministry spokesman on Monday said violence could dramatically surge in eastern Afghanistan as a number of religious schools in Pakistan had been closed to send their students for suicide attacks on this side of the border.

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    Governance

    Karzai off to India amid tensions with Pakistan
    May 20, 2013 - 14:18

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai, heading a high level delegation, on Monday flew to New Delhi for a two-day official visit, his office said, amid escalating tensions between Kabul and Islamabad over this month's border skirmishes and stalled peace process.

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    Security and Crime

    Baghlan council chief among 13 killed in suicide blast

    May 20, 2013 - 13:07

    PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The provincial council chief was among more than a dozen people killed in a suicide attack that left another 10 people wounded in northern Baghlan province on Monday, officials said.

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    Security and Crime

    Police poised for election security: Patang

    May 20, 2013 - 19:37

    KABUL (PAN): Interior Minister Mujtaba Patang on Monday said the national police were poised to keep security for upcoming elections across the country.

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    Features

    Ghazni’s key demands: Jobs & security

    GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Residents of southern Ghazni province want the Afghan government and the...

    Balkh newspapers struggling to survive
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    Interviews

    Shafaq promises security, good governance

    BAMYAN CITY (PAN): The newly-appointed governor for central Daikundi province, Abdul Haq Shafaq...

    152 Maqur villages cleared of Taliban
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    Governance

    UN urges Afghan authorities to fully enact EVAW law

    May 20, 2013 - 20:33

    KABUL (PAN): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and UN Women on Monday urged Afghan authorities to step up their efforts to ensure the law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) was fully implemented in line with their international commitments.

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    Security and Crime

    Khost council office closed for security fears

    May 20, 2013 - 22:02

    KHOST CITY (PAN): The provincial council office in southeastern Khost province was closed by its members on Monday, saying most of police guards keeping security for the office had been called back to their headquarters.

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    Governance

    Kabul, Tehran ink MoU on judiciary ties

    May 20, 2013 - 18:08

    KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan and Iran have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which they pledged to promote bilateral cooperation in judicial and legal affairs and continued interactions to exchange their legal experiences.

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    Business & Economics

    Zakhilwal to talk key projects with Tajik leaders

    May 20, 2013 - 21:34

    KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal on Monday said he would discuss with Tajikistan leaders a railroad project and power transmission lines bringing electricity from the central Asian country to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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    Governance

    India, China agree on Afghan support

    May 20, 2013 - 15:49

    NEW DELHI (PAN): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang on Monday discussed Afghanistan and agreed that the reconstruction and efforts for security and stability in the war-ravaged country should be Afghan-led.

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    Security and Crime

    Bomb blasts foiled in Jalalabad; 4 rebels killed

    May 20, 2013 - 16:19

    KABUL/JAJALABAD (PAN): Four insurgents were killed and five Afghan soldiers were wounded during separate incidents of violence in Maidan Wardak and Paktia provinces, officials said on Monday, when explosives were found and defused at two locations in eastern city of Jalalabad.

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    Governance

    Karzai strongly condemns Baghlan attack

    May 20, 2013 - 13:59

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Monday strongly condemned a suicide attack that killed more than a dozen people in northern Baghlan province, including the provincial council head, Mohammad Rassoul Mohseni.

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    Education

    Kabul university students protest against teachers

    May 20, 2013 - 22:29

    KABUL (PAN): More than a hundred male and female students of Kabul University on Monday started hunger strike in protest against what they alleged their faculty head and a teacher discriminated against some fellows.

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    Business & Economics

    Afghan traders seek alternative transit routes

    May 20, 2013 - 16:04

    HERAT CITY (PAN): Afghan traders, concerned at their problems in Pakistan and Iran, on Monday asked the government to find alternative transit routes for their import and export businesses.

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    8 killed, 25 injured as drone hits Taliban training centre

    May 20, 2013 - 19:32

    MAHMUD RAQI/PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A NATO drone targeted a training centre of Taliban insurgents in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, killing eight and injuring 25 others, an official claimed on Monday.

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    Security and Crime

    NATO plane makes hard-landing in Logar

    May 19, 2013 - 19:37

    KABUL (PAN): A C-130 plane with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made a hard landing in central Logar province on Sunday, but there were no casualties, the alliance said.

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