KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Tuesday said it was concerned about suicide attacks, but the assaults could not represent any strategic threat to the security transition process and the 2014 elections.
JALALABAD (PAN): Governor Tamim Nuristani, demanding increase in the number of police and army personnel, has claimed about 200 various militant groups were operating in eastern Nuristan province.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): As many as 26 Taliban insurgents and four policemen were killed during fierce gun-battles entering a second day on Tuesday in southern Helmand province, an official said.
KABUL (PAN): An influential human rights organisation on Tuesday said the number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing forced and abusive marriages, and other "moral crimes", has soared since 2011.
JALALABAD (PAN): The father of Mohammad Nabi Isakhel, Afghanistan cricket team captain, was kidnapped at gun point on Tuesday in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said.
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): The dead body of a radio journalist was retrieved from a water well in his home in the Najrab district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Tuesday.
KABUL (PAN): Ten Taliban insurgents, four Afghan army soldiers and a tribal elder have been killed in separate incidents in different parts of the country, officials said on Tuesday.
FARAH CITY (PAN): A man opened fire at policemen manning a check post in western Farah province, killing four of them and injuring a fifth, officials said on Tuesday.
HERAT CITY (PAN): Seven police guards were killed on Tuesday by a powerful roadside bombing that ripped through their vehicle in the Chasht-i-Sharif district of western Herat province, an official said.
