JALALABAD (PAN): Militants forcibly closed a school after beating its teachers in the Wanth Waigal district of the remote eastern province of Nuristan, officials said on Wednesday.
FARAH (PAN): Five policemen were killed during a gun attack by armed insurgents in the Pusht-i-Rod district of western Farah province, officials said on Tuesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Eighty-seven public order police, including officers, on Monday completed a weeks-long training programme in eastern Laghman province, officials said.
JALALABAD (PAN): Four NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers were injured following a roadside bombing in the eastern province of Laghman, an official said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Some tribal elders and officials in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday claimed the Taliban had set up check-posts in several districts and were seeking usher from growers.
JALALABAD (PAN): The US Congress has allocated $31 million for the repairs of three turbines at the Daronta dam in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Elders and public representatives on Saturday asked Nangarhar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai to hold a grand gathering of tribes and governors on escalating unrest in the eastern zone.
JALALABAD (PAN): Two former Taliban officials and three Pakistani citizens have been arrested by police in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Thursday.
