JALALABAD (PAN): The eleven employees of a mine-clearing organisation, who were abducted from the Achin district of Nangarhar province, have been taken to Pakistan’s northwestern Tirah Valley, officials said on Sunday.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A district attorney was killed in a roadside bombing in the restive southern province of Helmand on Sunday morning, an official said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A Taliban commander and seven of his associates have been killed during an ongoing operation aimed at driving insurgents from three villages of the Panjwai district in southern Kandahar province, police said on Saturday.
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Four people were killed and two others wounded during a clash between illegal armed groups in northern Kunduz province, officials said on Saturday.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): After blowing up power pylons in southern Kandahar province, the Taliban have cut off transmission lines supplying power to Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, an official said on Saturday.
ASADABAD (PAN): A National Directorate of Security (NDS) officer was killed in a blast in the Wanth Waigal district of eastern Nuristan province on Saturday, the governor’s spokesman said.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Four people were killed and eight vehicles torched during two separate incidents in northern Balkh province, an official said on Saturday.
KUNDUZ (PAN): Hundreds of university students on Saturday staged a protest against the killing of two fellows in northern Kunduz province, blocking a busy highway and seeking punishment for the culprits.
GHAZNI (PAN): Twenty-five foreign militants have been killed during an operation by Afghan security forces in the Giro district of southern Ghazni province, local officials claimed on Saturday.
