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    Governance

    MoI assuages IEC's concerns about security

    KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said it was fully prepared to keep security for voter registration centres, a process beginning Sunday.



    Security and Crime

    24 rebels killed in Ghor, Badakhshan, Taliban refute

    KABUL (PAN): Twenty-four Taliban insurgents were claimed killed during clashes with police in Ghor and Badakhshan provinces.



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    8 killed, 25 injured as drone hits Taliban training centre

    MAHMUD RAQI/PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A NATO drone targeted a training centre of Taliban insurgents in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, killing eight and injuring 25 others, an official claimed on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    Civilians among 34 killed in new wave of violence

    KABUL (PAN): Twenty-one insurgents, 10 security personnel and four civilians have been killed in separate security incidents in the past 24 hours in different parts of the country, officials said on Saturday.



    Security and Crime

    Taliban in control of 11 Warduj villages

    FAIZABAD (PAN): Local officials on Thursday said the Taliban controlled nearly a dozen villages in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province.



    Security and Crime

    Patang visits suicide blast scene

    KABUL (PAN): The interior minister visited the scene of the suicide attack in Kabul, condemning in the strongest of terms the blast that occurred in a residential area of the capital.



    Accidents & Disasters

    1500 lives lost to traffic accidents in 2012

    KABUL (PAN): As many 1,500 were killed last year in traffic accidents, most of them involving drivers using telephones, the Traffic Department director said on Wednesday.



    Security and Crime

    Arrest of drug smugglers a priority: Muqbil

    KABUL (PAN): The arrest of notorious drug traffickers is among the priorities of the Ministry of Counternarcotics, an official said on Wednesday.



    Security and Crime

    AIJA condemns journalist’s death

    KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) on Wednesday denounced the killing of a reporter in eastern Laghman province.