GHAZNI CITY/ SHARAN (PAN): Three Taliban insurgents were killed and as many others wounded when the explosive device they were planting in the Qarabagh district of southern Ghazni province went off prematurely, an official said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Thirty Pakistani troops were killed, 30 others wounded and four of their posts destroyed during a clash in a contested border area in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, an official said.
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three boosters of private telecommunications companies were destroyed in rocket attack by militants in western Farah province, an official said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Afghan and Pakistani troops clashed for a second time in less than a week over a controversial border gate in the Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday morning, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): A leader of the anti-Taliban public uprising in the Maqur district of southern Ghazni province on Monday claimed they had cleared most areas of insurgents.
KABUL (PAN): Dozens of inmates at the Pul-i-Charkhi detention centre, east of Kabul, on Sunday went on hunger strike to press for clemency under a presidential decree, a senior jail official said.
KABUL (PAN): Four people were killed and as many wounded in new attacks on election candidates in Pakistan’s Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Sunday.
MAIMANA (PAN): A delegation, led by Defence Minister Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi, visited northern Faryab province for assessing the security situation there, officials said on Sunday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Hundreds of high school graduates on Sunday thronged a sports ground in northern Balkh province to appear in a police recruitment exam, an official said.
