KABUL (PAN): The website of the National Security Council (NSC) has been hacked by a group linked to the Al Qaida terrorist network, a presidential aide confirmed on Thursday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Forty families are under threat of landslides in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Wednesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Traders on Wednesday claimed suffering $161,780 (8,000,000 afghanis) losses as a result of a fire that gutted a market in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said.
TALOQAN/QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Three people were killed when a car crashed into a truck in northern Takhar province, while two children died in a fire in northeastern Badghis, officials said on Wednesday.
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): The Sabzak Pass, connecting northwestern Badghis province with western Herat, reopened for traffic after a two-day blockade due to heavy snowfall and avalanches, officials said on Tuesday.
MEHTARLAM (PAN): There has been a significant fall in traffic accidents on the Kabul-Torkham highway since Pakistan blocked the key supply route for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan last year, drivers and passengers say.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander in the north, Brig. Gen. Markus Kneip, on Sunday denounced the burning of the Quran by US troops as an unforgiveable mistake.
CHAGHCHARAN (PAN): Seven members of a family were rescued after a snow avalanche struck the Pasaband district of western Ghor province on Sunday, officials said.
