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MRRD condemns killing of NGO workers

KABUL): The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) on Wednesday strongly condemned what it called the deliberate killing of six humanitarian workers in a gun attack in northwestern Faryab province. Police said the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development…

6 NGO workers gunned down in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN for the attack. The Agency for TechnicalCooperation and Development (ACTED) staffers were gunned down six kilometres from Maimana, the provincial capital, the Faryab police chief said. Brig. Gen. Nabi Jan Miakhel told Pajhwok Afghan News that police were…

Husband slaughters wife in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN, a man slaughtered his wife in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. The 25 years old, after two years of her marriage with the man, was strangulated on Sunday night in Khwaja Sabzposh district, the town’s…

Junbish-i-Millie commander shot dead

MAIMANA (PAN): A former commander of the Junbish-i-Millie Islami party, led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, has been killed in northern Faryab province, an official said on Sunday. Syed Najibullah was shot dead by a gunman near the Chehilgazi Bazaar…

10 killed as Faryab fighting continues

MAIMANA (PAN on Wednesday claimed inflicting heavy casualties on each other in the Qaisar district of northern Faryab province, officials said on Wednesday. Led by Pakistanis, hundreds of Taliban militants from Faryab, Badghis and Ghor provinces stormed the Shakh bazaar…

7 killed as militants storm Qaisar bazaar

MAIMANA (PAN provinces once against attacked the Shakh bazaar in the Qaisar district of Faryab province on Tuesday. Abdul Jamil Siddiqui, the district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the bazaar fell to the Taliban after an attack by a group…

Bazzar in Faryab cleared of insurgents

MAIMANA (PAN): Two militants were killed and several others injured when Afghan security forces retook control of the Shakh bazaar in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, official said Monday. Earlier, the militants briefly gained control the bazaar, prompting…

7 Taliban killed by own explosives in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN, including two commanders, were killed on Saturday when the bomb they were making exploded prematurely in the Qaisar district of Faryab province, an official said. Abdul Jamil Siddiqui, the Qaisar district head, told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast…

Woman beheaded; kidnapped worker killed

MAIMANA (PAN in Almar district. The woman was killed by her spouse, who recently returned from Iran, the provincial police chief said, adding the motive remained unclear. Brig. Gen. Nabi Jan Mullahkhel, speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News, believed the incident…

5 of a family gunned down in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN): Gunmen broke into a house and shot dead five members of a family in the Khwaja Sabz Posh district of northern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. The dead included Sufi Din Mohammad, his wife, two married…

3 election officials abducted in Faryab

KUNDUZ CITY (PAN), including a woman, were abducted by unidentified gunmen in the northern province of Faryab on Thursday, officials said. A district field coordinator, a female registrar and another worker of the commission were kidnapped while travelling from Almar…

2 policemen killed in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN insurgents attacked and killed two policemen manning a check-post in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Thursday. The overnight incident took place in Chashma Qazalso area, the district chief, Abdul Jamil Siddique, told…

1500 families flee possible clashes in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN insurgents in the Ghormach district of northwestern Faryab province. The exodus came three days after security officials warned residents of possible attack from the Taliban, saying the armed rebels had gathered in nearby areas to storm the district…

4 ALP members dead in Faryab assault

MAIMANA (PAN): Four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members were killed and three others wounded an in insurgent attack in the Garziwan district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Thursday. The assault took place on Wednesday night when a…

75 Faryab schoolgirls ill after gas attack

MAIMANA (PAN incident, as many as 75 schoolgirls of a middle school fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in the Shirin Tagab district of northern Faryab province on Tuesday, officials said. The district chief said initially three girls…

2 ex-jihadi leaders gunned down in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN commanders in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on Friday. Dost Mohammad and Ghulam Sakhi were gunned down Thursday night in the Pakhtunkot district, the district police chief, Col. Najibullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He suspected prior…

Floods kill 7 in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN): Flash floods continued to play havoc in northern Faryab province, killing at least seven people, destroying hundreds of homes and sweeping away household animals and crops, officials said on Saturday. Heavy rains led to flooding in Garzewan, Balcheragh…

Militant blown up by own bomb

MAIMANA (PAN): One suspected militant was killed and two others were wounded by a bomb they were planting beneath a bridge in northern Faryab province, an official said on Saturday. The blast happened in the Chahar Shanba area of Ghormach…

3 rebels killed in Faryab offensive

MAIMANA (PAN): Three militants were killed during a security operation by Afghan security forces in northern Faryab province on Sunday, an official said. Another three rebels were injured in the early morning operation in the Quram Qul district, police spokesman…

ANA contractor among 4 killed in Faryab

MAIMANA (PAN): One policeman, two militants and a contractor with the Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed in separate incidents in northern Faryab province, officials said on Saturday. The policeman was killed in a clash in Qaram Qul district, provincial…

$6m allocated for Faryab industrial park

MAIMANA (PAN): Minister of Commerce and Industries Anwarul Haq Ahadi on Saturday allocated $6 million (313 million afs) for the construction of an industrial park at the Aqina Port in northern Faryab province, an official said. The park would involve…

Faryab doctors stop seeing patients in protest

MAIMANA (PAN): Doctors at the Afghan-Turk Hospital in northern Faryab province on Sunday stopped seeing patients following police misbehaved with some of their colleagues. Dr. Ghulam Yehya Faiz, one of the protesting doctors at the 100-bed hospital, said policemen forced…

Woman killed, 16 injured in Faryab blast

MAIMANA (PAN): One woman was killed and 16 others were injured in a bomb explosion in the Pashtunkot district of northern Faryab province on Wednesday, officials said. The blast took place at 10am close to a health clinic in the…

Abducted Bangladeshi freed from Taliban militants

MAIMANA (PAN militants had been freed in northern Faryab province, an official said. The Afghan National Army (ANA) team which conducted a rescue operation on Saturday found the victim, Rafiq-ul-Islam dumped inside a cave with his hands tied, Maj. Mohammad…

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