MAIMANA (PAN): Eighteen people, including university students, were wounded when two gas cylinders exploded in a hostel of the Faryab University, officials said on Wednesday.
MAIMANA (PAN): Unknown gunmen shot dead the mother of an Afghan border policeman in northwestern Faryab province, where two suspected militants were killed in a bomb blast, an official said on Wednesday.
MAIMANA (PAN): A girl was found dead at her home after a clash between insurgents and Afghan security forces in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Sunday.
MAIMANA/SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Nearly a hundred schoolgirls were hospitalised after falling sick due to suspected poisonous gas attacks in northern Faryab and Sari-i-Pul provinces, officials said on Sunday.
MAIMANA (PAN): Hundreds of people on Saturday protested Wolesi Jirga’s decision on excluding tribe’s name from new computerised national identity cards (CNICs).
MAIMANA (PAN): Three civilian homes were destroyed and as many torched during a clash between armed insurgents and security forces in the Garziwan district of northwestern Faryab province, residents claimed on Thursday.
MAIMANA (PAN): Four local policemen joined the Taliban and a fighter was killed during a clash with security personnel in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on Wednesday.
MAIMANA (PAN): In a new anti-girl education incident, as many as 75 schoolgirls of a middle school fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in the Shirin Tagab district of northern Faryab province on Tuesday, officials said.
MAIMANA/GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Anti-Pakistan rallies continued on Saturday in major Afghan cities against the May 1 border skirmish between forces of the neighbouring countries near their shared frontier.
