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    Security and Crime

    7 guerrillas eliminated in Ghazni raid

    GHAZNI (PAN): Seven insurgents were killed and 8 others detained during an operation in Deh-Yak district of southern Ghazni province, an official said.



    Security and Crime

    4 Afghan troops, 2 policemen killed

    KABUL/GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Four Afghan National Army (ANA) troops and two soldiers have been killed and as many others wounded in various security incidents in different parts of the country, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.



    Governance

    Anti-Pakistan protests staged in Faryab, Ghazni

    MAIMANA/GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Anti-Pakistan rallies continued on Saturday in major Afghan cities against the May 1 border skirmish between forces of the neighbouring countries near their shared frontier.



    Security and Crime

    Police among 12 dead in new wave of violence

     KABUL (PAN): Twelve people were killed and10 others injured during separate incidents of violence in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday.



    Security and Crime

    3 insurgents blown up by own explosives

    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.



    Security and Crime,Interviews

    152 Maqur villages cleared of Taliban

    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.



    Education

    55 Ghazni schoolteachers boycott classes

    GHAZNI (PAN): Teachers in 55 schools in southern Ghazni province on Tuesday announced an indefinite boycott of classes in protest against non-distribution of land plots promised to them four years ago under a residential scheme.



    Security and Crime

    6 police killed in insider attack

    GHAZNI CITY/SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Six members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force were killed in the Deh Yak district of southern Ghazni province on Sunday, officials said.



    Security and Crime

    20 Taliban killed in Ghazni clashes

    GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Twenty Taliban fighters were killed during two separate clashes with members of a public uprising backed by Afghan security forces in southern Ghazni province, officials said on Saturday.



    Security and Crime

    13 Ghazni uprising members killed in Taliban attack

    GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Thirteen members of a anti-Taliban militia were killed in an attack by the Taliban fighters in the militancy-plagued Andar district of southern Ghazni province on Friday, an official said.