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    Support for Karzai’s stance on prison transfer grows

     ASADABAD (PAN): Civil society leaders from eastern Kunar province on Sunday stoutly supported President Hamid Karzai’s stance on the complete transfer of the Bagram detention centre to Kabul’s control.



    Health

    Kunar kids being given polio drops

    ASADABAD (PAN): Public heath officials on Satuday said they had launched a new round of anti-polio campaign to immunise 21,000 left over kids below the age of five in eastern Kunar province that borders Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region.



    Business & Economics

    Handicraft exhibition opens in Asadabad

    ASADABAD (PAN): A three-day exhibition of handicrafts made by women opened in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, on Monday.



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    Civilians among 9 dead in Kunar bombing

    ASADABAD (PAN): Nine people were killed in bomb attacks on border police in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province on Thursday, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    One policeman killed, 2 injured in blast

    ASADABAD (PAN): One Afghan National Police (ANP) official was killed and two others were wounded in a roadside bombing in the Barikot district of eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    2 civilians dead in Kunar blast

    ASADABAD (PAN): Two civilians were killed during a bomb blast in the Sarkano district of eastern Kunar province on Friday, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    Probe team visits raid victims’ families

    ASADABAD (PAN): Members of a probe team on Thursday met relatives of the civilians killed during an airstrike in the Shegal district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday.



    Security and Crime

    Civilians among 13 killed in ISAF raid

    ASADABAD (PAN): Ten civilians -- mostly women and children -- were killed in an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a senior official s



    Security and Crime

    18-member group shuns insurgency

    ASADABAD (PAN): An 18-member group of militants on Tuesday joined the government-led peace process in eastern Kunar province, a senior official said.



    Health

    21,000 Kunar children deprived of polio drops

    ASADABAD (PAN):  More than 21,000 children could not be reached out for administering polio drops in a number of towns in eastern Kunar province owing to insecurity, officials said on Monday.