JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people, protesting against a profane film released in the US, on Sunday blocked the busy Jalalabad-Torkham Highway at two locations for two hours in eastern Nangarhar province.
KABUL/JALALABAD (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI), calling Pakistani newspapers a conduit for Taliban propaganda, on Saturday announced banning their entry to the country in an attempt to block the Taliban from influencing public opinion via the press.
JALALABAD (PAN): Protests against a blasphemous movie spread across several Afghan cities on Wednesday, with demonstrators blocking highways, burning the US president’s effigies and demanding the death penalty for the moviemaker.
JALALABAD (PAN): Floods killed a tribal elder was killed and washed away 50 domestic animals and hundreds of acres of land in the eastern province of Nangarhar, officials said on Tuesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): The Chaparhar district chief, Haji Siddique Dawlatzai, escaped unhurt in a roadside bombing in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, officials said.
JALALABAD (PAN): Twenty rebels were killed and five others injured during an eight hours clash with police, backed by residents of the Hesarak district, in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Sunday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Residents of Achin district in the eastern province of Nangarhar forced out Pakistani Taliban as a result of a public uprising, officials said on Sunday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Police and Taliban suffered casualties during a clash in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Up to 200 people were poisoned after eating a meal at the house of a tribal elder in the Dawlat Shah district of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Saturday.
