KABUL/JAJALABAD (PAN): Four insurgents were killed and five Afghan soldiers were wounded during separate incidents of violence in Maidan Wardak and Paktia provinces, officials said on Monday, when explosives were found and defused at two locations in eastern city of Jalalabad.
KABUL (PAN): Nine Taliban insurgents and four border policemen were killed during separate incidents in Uruzgan and Nangarhar provinces, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): Seven people have been killed and more than 65 others injured in a suicide attack in the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, Pakistani media reported on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of people, including the physically-challenged, emerged on roads in Takhar, Uruzgan and Laghman provinces to protest against Pakistan for the 7th consecutive day on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan and its neighbours can draw inspiration from the European experience in looking forward to a more peaceful and prosperous future, built on trust, confidence and mutual interdependence, the European Union special representative said on Thursday.
KHOST CITY (PAN): A suicide bombing rocked the capital of southeastern Khost province, bordering the Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region of Kurram, on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): The Wolesi Jirga -- or lower house of parliament -- on Monday summoned Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhelwal, but the Karzai cabinet member said he would not appear before lawmakers.
TALOQAN (PAN): Thousands of families have been protected from flood threats with the inauguration of two projects in the northern province of Takhar, officials said on Friday.
KABUL (PAN): Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Pervez Kayani, used "threatening language" during his talks with President Hamid Karzai in Brussels last week, a senior official alleged on Monday.
KABUL (PAN): Pursuing a comprehensive effort for a political solution to the ongoing conflict, the Afghan government on Friday urged Pakistan to lend its full weight to the Kabul-led reconciliation process.
