KABUL (PAN): Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a bomb explosion in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border on Friday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Gunmen seized nearly a dozen workers of a mine-clearing firm in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday, an official said.
CHAGHCHARAN (PAN): Eighteen militants, including Pakistani fighters, and a dozen pro-government militiamen were killed in the Pasaband district of Ghor province, an official said on Thursday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): One student was killed and three others were injured after a protest against the replacement of their school principal turned violent in the Bagram district of central Parwan province, officials said on Thursday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Forty-eight prisoners were released on Thursday from a jail in northern Balkh province in compliance with a presidential decree issued on April 28, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): A parliamentary commission has found one in 10 prisoners held at the notorious Pul-i-Charkhi prison east of Kabul is addicted to drugs, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Thursday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Taliban militants have blown up three power pylons in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, disrupting electricity supply to several areas, an official said on Thursday.
BAMIAN/POL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): One policeman was killed and two others wounded when Taliban attacked two police posts on Bamian-Baghlan border, an official said on Thursday.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Fourteen guards of the central prison in northern Baghlan province have been arrested in connection with a recent jailbreak, an official said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Gunmen opened fire on an election rally in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday, killing two people and wounding three others, a media report said.
