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KABUL (PAN): A well-coordinated Taliban attack that killed 10 people, including six attackers, and wounded 14 others drew strong condemnation on Saturday from the US, the UN and NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan. UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the terrorist attack on compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). “He (Ban) notes that Afghan security forces have been responding to the attack, for which the Taliban have claimed responsibility,” said a s...
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of Kabul University students on Wednesday staged a protest, demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights they said was un-Islamic. <--break-> Using executive authority, Karzai had created the law on elimination of violence against women (EVAW) in 2009. The protesters warned of continued and violent protests if the parliament approved the law. Carrying back, white and green flags, they even said they would join the Taliban and resort to uprising against...
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. The public protection force officers, who were guards of the Salma Dam, a hydroelectric site, came under attack on their way to the site, Herat police spokesman, Col. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The provincial council chief was among more than a dozen people killed in a suicide attack that left another 10 people wounded in northern Baghlan province on Monday, officials said. The senior public representative, Mohammad Rassoul Mohseni, was entering his office when a suicide bomber ran up, held him and detonated his suicide vest, Deputy Governor Abdul Qadim told Pajhwok Afghan News. The blast took place at 10:10am outside the provincial council office situated in the ...
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Twin bomb explosions rocked southern Kandahar province on Friday evening, killing and wounding dozens of people, officials said. At least nine bodies and 70 wounded people have been brought to the Mirwais Civil Hospital in Kandahar City from the Aino Mena area, where the blasts happened, a doctor confided to Pajhwok Afghan News. The explosions took place near a township at 7.40pm, according to witnesses, who said more casualties were on their way to hospital. The powerful ...
HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning at the central jail in western Herat province. Satisfied with the punishment, parents of the boy, who was killed last year after being kidnapped despite the payment of ransom money, said the move could serve as a lesson for others. Accompanied by his spouse, Ali Sina's father, Nasir Noori, an industrialist, thanked President Hamid Kar...
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A runaway woman was shot dead during a clash between security personnel and robbers in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Friday. Shabnam, hailing from Mazar-i-Sharif, eloped with Kabul resident Naveed to Takhar province on Thursday night. The bus they were traveling in was stopped by robbers in the Khanabad district of Kunduz. The administrative head of the town, Hayatullah Amiri, told Pajhwok Afghan News two security officials on the bus exchanged fire with...
KABUL (PAN): Six people were killed and 37 others wounded on Thursday when an explosives-laden car ploughed into a convoy of foreign military convoy in Kabul, officials and witnesses said.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Around 150 schoolgirls were poisoned in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, on Tuesday, an official said. Col. Abdul Razzaq Qadiri, the provincial police chief, confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place at the Khurasan Girls’ High School. The students were taken to hospital, but the reason for poisonous was not yet clear, he said, adding police were investigating the attack. Education Director Qais Mohraeen said 120 girls were poisoned b...
KABUL (PAN): Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal on Monday revealed the names of the lawmakers he had earlier accused of smuggling and making illegal demands on the government. Speaking in the Wolesi Jirga, Zakhilwal said MP from Kandahar Hameedzai Lalai had demanded licence plates for 1,970 right-hand drive vehicles. There is a ban a number plates for such vehicles under a cabinet decision. The minister read out the letter, in which Lalai had asked him to ignore the cabinet decision. The MP alleg...
