CHARIKAR (PAN): Heavy snow has blocked a key highway that connects central Bamyan and Daikundi provinces with Kabul on Wednesday, bringing to a virtual halt transport services, an official said.
JALALABAD (PAN): Two sisters and a male family member died when the roof of their mud house caved in due to heavy rains in eastern Nangarhar province, residents said on Wednesday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): Salang Highway maintenance chief Gen. Abdul Rajab was slightly injured when he was buried along with seven subordinates under a snow avalanche that hit the highway, an official said on Wednesday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): The Salang Pass, linking Kabul with northern provinces, was blocked early on Tuesday morning due to fear of snow slides, an official said.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The death toll from a traffic accident in northern Baghlan province has risen to three after a 12-year-old boy succumbed to his wounds at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday.
HERAT CITY (PAN): Two women committed self-immolation while a man perpetrated suicide over the past 24 hours in western Herat and Farah provinces, officials said on Thursday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Residents of several villages in the Taliban-infested Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province have launched an armed resistance against the militants, who made Kandahar their spiritual base during their regime.
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): At least 18 people were killed in a head-on collision between two passenger buses on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in southern Ghazni province on Thursday morning, an official said.
CHAGHCHARAN (PAN): Hundreds of people on Tuesday rallied against non-execution of reconstruction projects in western Ghor province, closing the Chaghcharan bazaar and the provincial council office.
