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    Ahmad Bashir Naadem

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    Security and Crime

    Policeman guns down 3 colleagues in Zabul

     KANDAHAR (PAN): A policeman has shot dead three of his colleagues in the Shamalzai district of southern Zabul province, an official said on Tuesday.



    Education

    1,800 appear in Kandahar University entry test

    KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Nearly 1,800 students, including 200 girls, appeared in a university entrance test in southern Kandahar province, officials said. 



    Governance

    ISAF supply trucks cross into Afghanistan

    KANDAHAR CITY/ISLAMABAD (PAN): For the first time in nearly eight months, NATO supply trucks on Thursday crossed into Afghanistan through the Chaman border crossing in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials said.



    Security and Crime

    47 militants killed in joint operations

    KABUL/KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Forty-seven militants were killed during a string of security operations in several provinces over the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday.



    Security and Crime

    18 killed in fresh spate of violence

    JALALABAD/KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Seventeen Taliban and a policeman were killed and another 16 people wounded in violence-related incidents in three provinces, officials said on Wednesday.



    Security and Crime

    Punish US soldier in Afghan court, say elders

    KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Infuriated tribal elders of Panjwae district in Kandahar want the US soldier, accused of shooting dead 16 people on Sunday, be tried in an Afghan court.



    Security and Crime

    5 civilians killed in Kandahar, Laghman blasts

    KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Four civilians were killed and two others injured in separate mine explosions in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday.



    Health

    35 polio cases detected in south, east

    KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Thirty-five cases of polio have been detected in southern Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces, public health officials said on Sunday.



    Health

    President launches nationwide anti-polio drive

    KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Saturday launched a three-day nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign, involving 52,000 volunteers, his office said.



    KANDAHAR CITY, Jan 13, 2010:Confrence