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    Wardak

    Security and Crime

    9 dead, 28 injured in Wardak bombing

    KABUL (PAN): Nine people including a woman and a child were killed and more than two dozens wounded on Monday when a passenger bus struck a roadside bomb on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said.



    Reconstruction,Education

    Wardak schools to have new buildings

    KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Education has pledged to reconstruct buildings and boundary walls for 56 schools in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Thursday.



    Security and Crime

    6 policemen killed in attacks

    KABUL (PAN): Six policemen were killed in insurgency-linked violence in central Maidan Wardak and northern Badakhshan provinces, an official and a witness said on Tuesday.



    Security and Crime

    Rebel commander killed in Wardak

    KABUL (PAN): An insurgent commander was killed and one his associates wounded when a roadside bomb they were planting went off prematurely in the central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Monday.



    Security and Crime

    Wardak schoolteacher gunned down

     KABUL (PAN): A schoolteacher was shot to death by unidentified gunmen in the Seydabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, an official said.



    Reconstruction

    USAID donate vehicles to Wardak municipality

    KABUL (PAN): Two vehicles worth $100,000 were on Tuesday delivered to the municipality department in central Maidan Wardak province, where three new projects, including a hospital, would be launched soon, an official said.



    Governance

    Team to probe allegations against US forces

    KABUL (PAN): Afghan and ISAF military leaders on Sunday constituted a 14-member delegation to investigate claims of US special forces’ involvement in torturing and killing civilians in central Maidan Wardak province.



    Security and Crime

    Elders want Karzai’s decision enforced

     KABUL (PAN): More than 2,000 tribal elders and influential figures on Tuesday threw their weight behind President Karzai's decision on giving US Special Forces two weeks to leave central Maidan Wardak province.



    Security and Crime

    Allegations being taken seriously: US military

    KABUL (PAN): The US military on Monday acknowledged that allegations of misconduct against its special forces in the central province of Maidan Wardak were a serious issue that it intended to take