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    Accidents & Disasters

    21 Taliban killed in Wardak incidents

    KABUL (PAN): At least 21 Taliban were killed and 10 others wounded during separate incidents over the past 24 hours in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Thursday.



    Governance

    Qatar to help pave way for Taliban-govt parleys

     KABUL (PAN): Supporting the Afghan-led reconciliation campaign, Qatar promised on Monday it would help pave the way for talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government.



    Security and Crime

    No hand in attack on Red Cross office: Taliban

    KABUL (PAN): The Taliban on Friday denied their involvement in a recent attack on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in the eastern city of Jalalabad.



    Governance

    ICRC confirms halting work across country

    KABUL (PAN): Following a suicide attack on its office in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has halted operations across Afghanistan, an official said on Friday.



    Security and Crime

    Taliban free remaining Turkish hostages

    KABUL (PAN): The Taliban on Tuesday announced the release of the remaining Turkish engineers they had kidnapped last month in central Logar province -- two days after four of the hostages were freed in Nangarhar.



    Governance

    Mutasim seeks sincere US role in peace drive

    KABUL (PAN): A former head of the Taliban Political Commission has suggested changes in the insurgent movement, as a NATO-led troops prepare to end their combat mission in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.  



    Reconstruction

    New surgical ward inaugurated in Uruzgan

    KABUL (PAN): A newly-constructed surgical ward at a health clinic was inaugurated in the Deh Rawud district of central Uruzgan province on Wednesday, when repair work on a key highway finished in Maidan Wardak province.



    Business & Economics

    Accord on three-nation railroad inked

     KABUL (PAN): Presidents of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan on Wednesday inked a trilateral framework agreement on the construction of a railroad following talks in Ashgabat, the Presidential Palace in Kabul said.



    Security and Crime

    6 Afghan soldiers dead in blasts, rebel attacks

    KABUL (PAN): Six Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in separate incidents over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.



    Sports

    Afghanistan taste 8-wicket defeat in Lahore

    KABUL (PAN): Pakistan-A defeated Afghanistan by eight wickets during a one-day match played in Pakistan's culture city of Lahore on Monday, an official said.