KABUL (PAN): Three people were killed and 30 others wounded in a bomb explosion targeted a convoy of a Wolesi Jirga member, Mohammad Muhaqiq in capital Kabul on Tuesday morning, eye witnesses and official 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.
KABUL (PAN): Five would-be suicide bombers affiliated with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) have been arrested in northeastern Kunduz province, the spy service said on Monday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Expired food items weighing 12 tonnes which had been seized over the past three months in eastern Nangarhar province were on Monday torched, officials said.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Security forces on Monday rescued 120 policemen who had been surrounded by Taliban fighters over the past one and a half month in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said.
KHOST CITY (PAN): Four potential recruits for suicide terrorism were arrested on Monday by Afghan security forces before they could cross the border into Pakistan from southeastern Khost province, the governor’s house said.
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): The governor of northern Jawzjan province on Monday accused Uzbek community leader Abdul Rashid Dostum of forcing him into breaking ties with the government in Kabul.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): The police chief escaped unhurt in a car suicide bombing that ripped through his convoy on a main road in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand, injuring three people, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): The joint Afghan-NATO transition board that met in Kabul on Sunday agreed that Afghan forces were ready and capable to take over security responsibility for the whole of the country.
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Gunmen shot dead the head and a member of a local community council in the Barak-i-Barak district of central Logar province on Sunday, an official said.
