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    Taliban in control of 11 Warduj villages

    FAIZABAD (PAN): Local officials on Thursday said the Taliban controlled nearly a dozen villages in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province.



    Security and Crime

    Badakhshan woman sentenced to death

    KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A woman was sentenced to death by the appellant court on the charge of killing husband in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    10 killed in Warduj; 8 civilians rescued

    FAIZADAB (PAN):  A Taliban commander was killed along with nine fighters in an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday.



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    Energy project benefits thousands of families

    TALOQAN (PAN): With the execution of a power project, six-thousand of families in northern energy-deficient Takhar province gained access to electricity, officials said on Saturday.



    Security and Crime

    3 militants dead in Badakhshan airstrike

    FAIZABAD (PAN): Three suspected militants were killed during a NATO airstrike in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Thursday.



    Reconstruction,Social

    Over 200 uplift projects executed in Takhar

    TALOQAN (PAN): More than 200 development projects were implemented in the past one year under the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) in the northern province of Takhar, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    15 including police dead in new violence

    KABUL (PAN): More than a dozen insurgents and two policemen were killed and 16 others injured in separate incidents in Badakhshan and Nangarhar provinces, officials said on Wednesday.



    Security and Crime

    Taliban seize 10 Afghan soldiers

    FAIZABAD (PAN): Taliban have seized 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in the wake of a clash in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    Kidnapped German freed in Badakhshan

    FIAZABAD (PAN): A German national was rescued and three of his abductors were detained in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    43 rebels killed in Warduj

    FAIZABAD (PAN): Forty-three militants have been killed in a joint ground and air offensive in the remote northern province of Badakhshan, local officials said on Friday. The Taliban, however, rejected the claim as baseless.