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    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.



    Reconstruction

    Kunar university gets new building

    ASADABAD (PAN): A newly-constructed building for the Syed Jamaludin Afghan University was inaugurated on Monday in eastern Kunar province, an official said.



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    7 die as snow, rains lash Kunar, Nuristan

    ASADABAD (PAN): Seven people, including two women, were killed and four others, including two children, were injured as continuous heavy snowfall and rains destroyed 73 homes in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday.



    Security and Crime

    Youth murderer gets sentence cut by 4 years

    ASADABAD (PAN): An appellate court on Tuesday reduced a 20-year-old man's sentence of 20 years in jail to 16 years in a murder case in eastern Kunar province.



    Security and Crime

    Commanders among 7 rebels held in Kunar

    ASADABAD (PAN):  Two commanders were among seven militants detained during a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces in the eastern province of Kunar, officials said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    District police chief convicted on bribery charges

    ASADABAD (PAN): A district police chief in eastern Kunar province was sentence to two-and-half years in jail on bribery charges, officials said on Wednesday.



    Security and Crime

    Man stabs wife to death, sets body on fire

    ASADABAD (PAN): A man stabbed his spouse to death before setting her body on fire in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, an official said.