KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Civilians casualties in the conflict over the past three months show an upsurge, compared with figures for the same period last year that saw a 12 percent decline, a UN official said on Monday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A senior Taliban military commander was killed and an alleged Pakistani would-be suicide bomber detained in the troubled Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Saturday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): The provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), set to wind up its operations in a week, would turn over its installation to the Kandahar Municipality, officials said on Tuesday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A Taliban-designated district chief has been killed along with five associates in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Two soldiers and a civilian were wounded in two separate incidents in the Panjwaee district of southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, an official said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Announcing welfare schemes, the women's affairs director on Monday said the rights of 159 women were abused in southern Kandahar province last solar year.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Ten percent of children are acutely malnourished in southern Kandahar province, where six children died at hospitals last solar year as a result of malnutrition, a health official said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Four children were killed and two others wounded by a bomb they were playing with in the Mianishin district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, officials said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Herat defeated Jawzjan in the final of an inter-zonal football tournament at the Ahmad Shahi Stadium in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A local police commander was killed and two of his bodyguards suffered shrapnel injuries when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Wednesday.
