KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Sunday strongly condemned a suicide attack on former Pakistani interior minister and seasoned politician Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. A two-time former chief minister, Sherpao survived the attack involving a suicide bomber, who blew himself up…
KABUL’s lawless tribal region of Khyber, officials said on Friday. The insurgents were killed in a joint Afghan-International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operation late on Thursday night, a spokesman for the 201st Selab Military Corps told Pajhwok Afghan News. …
ISLAMABAD (PAN’s northwestern Kohistan district on Tuesday, officials said. The incident took place in the Chilas area of the mountainous town on Karakorum highway, the district police chief, Sher Muhammad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The ill-fated bus was on its…
KABUL. Nine people were killed and a dozen others wounded when the suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near the entrance to the Jalalabad Airfield on the Torkham-Jalalabad highway. “The enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan would earn nothing,…
JALALABAD (PAN): A senior private security guard was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. The man led a squad of private guards providing security for a road construction…
KABUL-led airstrikes, saying mere apologies and condolences were no more acceptable to the people. Investigations by the teams appointed by President Hamid Karzai show 15 civilians, including women). Seven people of a family were killed in the Sawkai district of…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Five policemen were killed when a remote-controlled bomb blast ripped through their vehicle in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Saturday. The police were on a patrol in the Charistan area on the outskirts of Tirinkot, the…
KABUL): An Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) leader was killed during an Afghan-led and coalition-supported operation in Taloqan, the capital of northern Takhar province, on Sunday. The dead militant, named Ilham, was blamed for the Dec. 25 suicide bomb attack…
WASHINGTON (PAN): With its top leaders killed in the last one year, Al Qaeda no longer has the capability to have a command and control structure to launch a major terrorist strike like the 9/11, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta…
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN) contractor in the central Logar province on Tuesday, an official said. The ISAF service provider was abducted in the Hesarak area on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Pul-i-Alam, the intelligence department head, Col. Mohammad Jan Abid, told…
LASHKARGAH (PAN were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. A statement from the ministry blamed the Taliban insurgents for planting the explosive device in…
KABUL): Fifteen Afghans were among dozens of people wounded in a string of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq on Monday, a media report said. At least one pilgrim was killed in a roadside bombing, targeting devotees on their way…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Four children and a policeman were killed and 16 others, mostly civilians, injured when a suicide attacker rammed his explosives-packed motorbike into a police outpost in southern Kandahar province, the Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday.The…
KABUL National Coalition on Sunday strongly condemned a suicide attack that killed 20 people and injured scores of others in northern Takhar province. The bomber struck a funeral procession in the Kunjak area on the outskirts of Taloqan, the provincial…
KABUL. The Islamabad-Washington ties dipped to a new low as a result of a cross-border attack by NATO-led forces on border post in the Mohmand tribal region. At least 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the November 26 airstrikes on…
KABUL): Three suspects detained in connection with an acid attack on a family in northern Kunduz province have been transferred to Kabul, a Ministry of Interior official said on Friday. Five members of a family were attacked with acid by…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Officials in the central province of Kapisa on Wednesday said French soldiers had denied killing and wounding civilians in a rocket strike earlier in the week. Six people were killed and three others wounded on December 3,…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Five people were wounded in a huge bomb explosion in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, an official and eyewitness said. The explosives attached to a motorbike went off in the Charso Square in the…
KABUL): The International Security Assistance Force commander on Tuesday strongly condemned the roadside bombing in Chora district of Uruzgan province. Gen. John R. Allen called Monday's explosion that resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians the latest example of the…
KABUL): Up to 60 people were killed and more than 160 others wounded when a suicide bomber hit Shiite mourners at a shrine in the capital on Tuesday, officials said The bombing took place near the Abul Fazal Shrine in…
LASHKARGAH (PAN-led soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, officials said on Tuesday. At least one fighter was arrested as a result of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike on a rebel hideout in the Ishaqzai area of Sangin…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Six civilians were killed and three others wounded when a rocket hit a civilian house in the central province of Kapisa, a senior official said on Saturday. The incident took place in the Haibatkhel area of Tagab…
JALALABAD (PAN): The appellant prosecutor of eastern Nangarhar province escaped unhurt in a militant attack that wounded four of his bodyguards on Saturday, officials said. The morning attack occurred in the Sra Qala area of Chaparhar district when he was travelling from…
JALALABAD (PAN's lawless tribal region of Khyber, officials said. Haji Hamish Gul, Dur Baba district's administrative head, came under bomb attack in the Ghanikhel district at 11am, the governor's spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said. Although the district head survived the…
