ASADABAD (PAN): Pakistani troops have established a checkpoint 300 metres inside Afghan territory in the Narai district of eastern Kunar province, an official claimed on Saturday.
ASADABAD (PAN): Three Taliban fighters were killed by Afghan troops in the eastern province of Kunar, bordering Pakistan’s tribal region of Bajaur, officials said on Friday.
ASADBAD (PAN): Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi on Monday asked all security organs to launch a decisive operation against insurgents in the Chapa Dara district of eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region.
ASADABAD (PAN): Two Afghan National Army troops and one policeman were killed during a clash with insurgents in eastern Kunar province, while 35 kilograms of heroin seized in southwestern Nimroz on Monday, officials said.
ASADABAD (PAN): Families of those killed and wounded in an ISAF airstrike in eastern Kunar were on Monday paid $1,824 (100,000 afghains) in compensation for each dead and 50,000afs for each injured, officials said.
ADADABAD (PAN): Poppy crops grown over 50 hectares land were destroyed during a newly launched anti-poppy campaign in eastern Kunar province, officials said.
