PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Police clashed with drug smugglers, killed one of them and confiscated 200 kilograms of narcotics in northern Baghlan province on Tuesday, an official said. The early morning shootout came after police intercepted a group of individuals carrying drugs…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The revenue director of northern Baghlan province on Monday said they would not be able to meet the target fixed by the Ministry of Finance. During the inaugural ceremony for a newly-constructed building for his department, Baseer Ahmad…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN) troops had arrested three family members of a public representative in northern Baghlan province. The suspects were held on charges of having links with the Taliban during an overnight operation in the Borka district of Baghlan, but the…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN and Afghan forces during a night raid. Nearly 150 people took part in the rally in the Joi Naw area of Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital. They gathered in front of the governor’s house, accusing foreign troops of arresting…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Efforts are underway to secure the release of three Ministry of Mines engineers who were abducted in the Tala Wa Barfak district of northern Baghlan provinces, officials said on Sunday. The engineers and their driver were kidnapped three…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN leader was killed along with 16 fighters as a result of a security operation in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Friday. The operation that lasted 24 hours was conducted in the Anarkhel…
PUL-I-KHUMRI/MEHAMOOD RAQI (PAN -- lower house -- member were killed in a roadside bombing in northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, officials said. They were travelling on the Salang-Pul-i-Khumri highway in the morning when came under attack in the Sang-Surkh area…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN), seizing four of his trucks in northern Baghlan province, on Wednesday accused a senator of stealing more than 200 tonnes of wheat from the Pul-i-Khumri Silo. The wheat was to be distributed to nomadic Kuchis in Doh-i-Ghori…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The Deh Salah district mayor has been shot dead by a shopkeeper during a raid on cosmetics stores in northwestern Baghlan province, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Rassoul was gunned down when he was closing cosmetic shops…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Three militants were killed and nearly 300 families displaced as a result of an operation by security personnel in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. The ongoing offensive -- codenamed Operation Eagle --…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A local policeman shot dead his brother’s wife in northern Baghlan province while four civilians were wounded in blast in southern Ghazni, officials said on Wednesday. The Afghan Local Police (ALP) entered his brother’s house late on Tuesday…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): German troops have vacated a military base in the capital of northern Baghlan province, handing the facility over to Afghan forces, an official said on Sunday. Around 700 German troops were moved on Saturday from one of their…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Security officials and residents fished out on Wednesday seven bodies of the people who had drowned in the Doshi River in northern Baghlan province two days ago. The dead included a woman, her two daughters, a son and…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN-Baghlan highway was reopened on Saturday afternoon after several hours of closure by protestors, officials said. Hundreds residents of Doshi district, rallying against the construction of the Kilagi power dam, blocked the route in the morning. A large…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN-Pul-i-Khumri highway before the traffic. Nearly 300 protesters closed the busy highway before traffic at around 10 am. Speaking on behalf of protestors, Haji Mohammad Hakim said several villages and thousands of acres of land would be drowned, if…
KABUL) said. Arrested in Baghlan-i-Jadid district, the militant leader allegedly supervises the operations of multiple insurgent cells and has been responsible for numerous attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. “He also collects illegal taxes from local civilians, facilitates the movement…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Heavy floods washed away dozens of houses and damaged orchards in several villages of north Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. Unleashed by heavy rains, the flash floods wreaked havoc in 12 villages of Pul-i-Hesar district, where the…
BAMIAN/POL-I-KHUMRI (PAN attacked two police posts on Bamian-Baghlan border, an official said on Thursday. On Wednesday in the afternoon a group of Taliban with their leader Mullah Abdul Qayom attacked numbers of policemen they were on their way to the…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Fourteen guards of the central prison in northern Baghlan province have been arrested in connection with a recent jailbreak, an official said on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Afandi Rabati, the jail superintendent, told Pajhwok Afghan News that two prisoners…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A man was detained for sexually assaulting his daughter in northern Baghlan province, where a woman’s a body was also found by the authorities, an official said on Wednesday. The incest took place in Khost district where the…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Seasonal floods have killed a child and damaged 50 houses and 500 acres of cropped land in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. The floods were induced by 24 hours of rain in Jalgah, Khost, Nahrain…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN (HIA) group has joined the government-initiated peace process in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. Hailing from Baghlan-i-Markazi district, the surrendering men had been involved in anti-government and destructive activities in the area. They turned in their…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A teenage girl exchanged fire with police for 40 minutes before her surrender in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Sunday. The 17-year-old opened fire at the headquarters of Tala Wa Barfak district on Friday evening using an…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN of two hydropower dams in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Monday. One of the dams having the capacity to generate 4.5 megawatts of electricity is estimated to cost up to €32 million, provincial water and energy…
