MAIMANA (PAN): Two groups involving 45 fighters have joined the peace process in northern Balkh and Faryab provinces, the National Security Directorate (NDS) said on Friday.
KABUL (PAN): Four people were killed and as many wounded in new attacks on election candidates in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said.
KABUL (PAN): The Cabinet on Saturday decided to approve a revised draft law on mines and petroleum at a special meeting, scheduled for Monday, calling the proposed legislative measure crucial to the country's economic development.
KUDUZ CITY (PAN): With the mysterious death of a teenage girl in Takhar, the number of females killed in the northern province over the past 11 months has reached 12, officials said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): The Salang Pass, a key route between Kabul and the north, was reopened on Thursday for vehicular movement after a six-hour blockade that came after the highway authorities feared possible snowstorms could snarl travel.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai, at the head of a high-level delegation, left for Washington on Monday on a three-day official visit, an official said.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Relatives of those killed and wounded in a September 2009 NATO airstrike in northern Kunduz province have sought $4.4 million in compensation from the perpetrators, a lawyer for the survivors said, claim denied by families of the victims.
