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    Education

    Senior female teachers warn of quitting jobs

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Transferred far away from their homes, female school principals and teachers in central Logar province on Tuesday accused the education department of taking such actions based on nepotism and ethnic considerations.



    Reconstruction

    Logar roads in dilapidated condition

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Bomb blasts, snow and rainfalls have damaged 70 percent of roads in central Logar province, residents said on Sunday.



    Security and Crime

    Logar clerics, elders back peace drive

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Nearly 300 religious scholars and tribal elders from central Logar province on Thursday lent their weight to the government-led peace campaign.



    Governance

    No crisis after 2014: Ghani

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Security Transition Commission head Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Monday said anyone gambling over the fate of Afghanistan would not be succeed in their nefarious designs.



    Accidents & DisastersNo details available

    3 frozen to death in Logar

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): A mother and her two children died of severe cold weather after being trapped due to a road blockade in central Logar province, officials said on Monday.



    Security and CrimeNo details available

    Logar elders warn Taliban of armed resistance

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Logar residents and elders on Tuesday warned the Taliban of an armed uprising if they continued their violent acts in the central province, neighbouring Kabul.



    Security and Crime

    Huge quantity of explosives seized in Logar

     PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): As many as 343 sacks of explosives and 50 tins of chemicals were seized in central Logar province on Wednesday, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    Truckload of banned fertiliser seized

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Police on Tuesday claimed seizing a Kabul-bound truck loaded with thousands of kilograms of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser compound the rebels use in making explosives, in central Logar province.



    Security and Crime,Interviews

    Taliban out to defame local police: Azizi

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Taliban members, pretending to be local policemen, have embarked on robberies and extortion in areas where the NATO-backed force has been deployed, the governor of central Logar province alleged on Sunday.



    Business & Economics

    Logar chromites being smuggled abroad

    PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Chromites mines are being dug up unprofessionally by people in central Logar province, Minister of Mines Wahidullah Shahrani said on Monday.