QALAT (PAN): A public representative and his nephew were killed on Monday when the car they were traveling in crashed into another vehicle in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province, an official said.
QALAT (PAN): Authorities in southern Zabul province have banned motorcycle driving in various districts and the provincial capital Qalat to prevent insurgent attacks, an official said on Tuesday.
QALAT (PAN): Abdul Qadir Qalatwal, a Wolesi Jirga member from southern Zabul province, on Saturday accused the mayor of having attempted to kill him, a claim rejected by the mayor’s deputy.
QALAT (PAN): Three Taliban fighters were killed during a clash with police in the Mizan district of southern Zabul province, an official said on Sunday.
QALAT (PAN): A district chief escaped unhurt in a bomb attack on his motorcade in southern Zabul province late on Wednesday, an official said on Thursday. Four policemen were wounded in the blast.
QALAT (PAN): The police chief on Thursday claimed there were some officials in provincial civil departments having sympathies with the rebels in southern Zabul province.
QALAT (PAN): Thirty-two militants were killed during a month-long operation involving Afghan and foreign troops in the Mizan district of southern Zabul province, the NATO-led alliance said on Thursday.
QALAT (PAN): Six policemen guarding a check post in Qalat city, the capital of southern Zabul province disappeared, but Taliban said they have joined the movement.
JALALABAD/QALAT (PAN): At least five people were killed and another 10 were injured in two separate traffic accidents in eastern Laghman and southern Zabul province, officials said on Saturday.