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    Woman sentenced to death for killing daughter-in-law

    By Khan Wali Salarzai May 15, 2013 - 16:30

    ASADABAD (PAN): A woman in eastern in Kunar province was awarded the capital punishment on the charge of beating her daughter-in-law to death.

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    Security and Crime

    4 injured in Pakistani missile attack

    By Khan Wali Salarzai May 12, 2013 - 15:30

    ASADABAD (PAN): The Pakistan military has fired a new barrage of missiles into eastern Kunar province, wounding four people, a senior official said on Sunday.

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    Health

    New polio case detected in Kunar

    By Khan Wali Salarzai May 7, 2013 - 14:58

    ASADABAD (PAN): A polio case has been detected in the Khas Kunar district of eastern Kunar province, where authorities decided to execute fresh polio campaigns, an official said on Tuesday.

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    Governance

    Protests rage against Pakistan

    By Pajhwok Report May 4, 2013 - 15:16

    TIRINKOT/JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people in central Uruzgan province on Saturday staged an anti-Pakistani protest, an official said.

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    Security and Crime

    Pakistan fires new volley of missiles into Kunar

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 30, 2013 - 17:43

    ASADABAD (PAN): More than 40 missiles were fired from Pakistani territory into eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, the governor’s spokesman said.

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    Security and Crime

    Wahidi calls for operation in Chapa Dara

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 29, 2013 - 18:07

    ASADBAD (PAN): Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi on Monday asked all security organs to launch a decisive operation against insurgents in the Chapa Dara district of eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan's Bajaur tribal region.

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    Security and Crime

    Kunar PRT closed after 9 years of operations

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 22, 2013 - 18:10

    ASADABAD (PAN): The American Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in eastern Kunar was formally closed on Monday after nine years of operations.

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    Security and Crime

    Pakistan fires more missiles into Kunar

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 22, 2013 - 18:04

    ASADABAD (PAN):  Pakistani troops have once again fired 24 missiles into the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday.

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    Security and Crime

    3 men sentenced to death in Kunar

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 16, 2013 - 20:58

    ASADABAD (PAN): A judge in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday sentenced three men to death for killing a woman in Manogi district.

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    Security and Crime

    Kunar airstrike victims' families compensated

    By Khan Wali Salarzai Apr 15, 2013 - 23:26

    ASADABAD (PAN): Families of those killed and wounded in an ISAF airstrike in eastern Kunar were on Monday paid $1,824 (100,000 afghains) in compensation for each dead and 50,000afs for each injured, officials said.

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