Taliban militants ploughed a four-kilometer portion of a road using tractors and dynamited 20 bridges in southern Kandahar province, police said on Saturday. Kandahar police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barakzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban destroyed the…
Taliban fighters have kidnapped 33 workers of a road construction company in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Friday. Dawood Ahmadi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants had taken hostage security and technical…
Taliban fighters have kidnapped 33 workers of a road construction company in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Friday. Dawood Ahmadi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants had taken hostage security and technical…
Taliban, an indigenous method of irrigation, system using landmines in Khorabak district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday. Khorabak district chief Abdul Nafey Barish told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Panj Pai area at…
In a short span of a year, the number of fish farms has doubled in southern Kandahar province, where the mushroom growth has created a lucrative source of income for locals. Last year, there were 92 fish…
Taliban fighters on Monday evening stormed a police checkpoint in Kandahar City, the provincial capital of southern Kandahar, an official said. A group of insurgents attacked the police checkpost in the 9th municipality district of Kandahar City…
A female employee of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southern Kandahar province on Monday, an official said. Samim Khpalwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Dozens of tribal elders offered condolences to the families of the victims of Kunduz violence, saying the city had fallen as a result of government’s negligence. During a gathering in the provincial council office, the elders from…
Foreign troops have destroyed in airstrike the six Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicles that Taliban had recently hijacked in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday. Gen. Daud Shah Wafadar, commander of…
Beijing is trying to adopt a joint position with Kabul said on Tuesday. At a joint news conference with Governor Humayun Azizi in Kandahar City, Deng Xijun called China and Afghanistan close neighbours, whose fates were intertwined…
The information and culture director of southern Kandahar province was wounded in an armed attack by unidentified gunmen Monday morning. The governor’s spokesman, Samim Khpalwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News Director Hazrat Wali Hotak was attacked by two…
The Provincial Council (PC) of southern Kandahar province has warned of taking strict action against officials involved in corruption. Kandahar PC head Haji Sayed Khan Khakrizwal told a meeting that a large number of residents complained about…
Construction work on a three-kilometre bypass road began in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, an official said. The road stretches from the second inter-section to the Hindu Square of Kandahar City, linking it with…
Three policemen were killed during separate security incidents in western Farah and southern Kandahar provinces, officials said Monday. One Afghan Local Police (ALP) member was killed and a civilian wounded in a bomb blast in Pusht Rood…
More than 100 policemen on Thursday graduated from a military training and another 129 from a driving course in southern Kandahar province. Police Training Centre commander Gen. Nasrullah Zarifi, Traffic Police chief Col. Mohammadullah Khan and others…
Residents of 10 villages in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province have revolted against the Taliban after being fed up with their atrocities. Residents of these villages said they endured Taliban’s atrocities for eight years and…
Four intelligence officials and a civilian were killed after a roadside bomb ripped the vehicle they were travelling in late on Friday in southern Kandahar province, an official said. The blast took place in the Ibrahim Khalifa Baba…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN department head on Tuesday confirmed 650 acres of land allotted to teachers had been grabbed by powerful individuals in southern Kandahar province. Sher Agha Sapi told a press conference at the Governor's House in Kandahar city, the…
