ISLAMABAD (PAN): A lawmaker was among 28 others died when a suicide bomber attacked participants of a funeral prayer in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP)province on Tuesday, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar must not become a tool for a third country's exploitation of Afghanistan, as he announced sending peace envoys to the Gulf state.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Two members of the Taliban were killed when one of the two roadside bombs they were planting exploded prematurely in the Buldak district of southern Kandahar province, the governor’s house said on Tuesday.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): An overnight airstrike by foreign troops killed eight suspected insurgents while planting roadside bombs on a key highway in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Afghanistan entered a new era on Tuesday as President Hamid Karzai announced the transfer of nationwide security from NATO to Afghan control.
KABUL (PAN): Three civilians were killed and 30 others, including six guards of a prominent politician Mohammad Mohaqqiq, the likely target, were wounded when a large blast rocked the heavily fortified Kabul city on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): The police chief of southern Kandahar province on Monday rejected as false a Taliban allegation that their 32 prisoners had been tortured to death in district jails.
