Residents of the Tagab district in central Kapisa province say Taliban insurgents have not been allowing girls to attend school. But they said the fighters in nearby Ala Sayee district let girls attend schools, but those in…
Stray dogs have bitten nearly 150 people during the past two months and six of them have died of rabies in central Kapisa province, residents said on Saturday. Most of the dog bite incidents occurred in parts…
Two rebel leaders have been killed along with four associates during an operation in the Najrab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Tuesday. Launched three days ago, the operation in Afghania and Ghain valleys has…
Bayat Foundation--- a charity organization--- has donated 27,000 academic books to 16 government universities in parts of the country as part of its sustained assistance to higher education institutions. Ihsanullah Arianzai, a member of the foundation, while…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN projects worth millions of US dollars implemented this year. Mehrabuddin Safi told reporters the projects, which had been completed, included a 250km road and two hospitals --- maternity and gynecology --- and a drug addict rehabilitation centre…
MAHMUD RAQI (PAN): A bomb jolted the Tagab district headquarters in central Kapisa province before Tuesday noon, officials and witnesses said. The blast happened inside the district office complex at about 11am, Fahim said giving a witness account. He saw…
CHARIKAR claimed killing five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers there. The Taliban-designated chief for Tagab district, Mohibullah, was among the 13 fighters killed since Tuesday evening during an ongoing operation in Afghania and Ghindara areas of the district, a police…
SHARAN/JALALABAD (PAN): Twenty militants, including two suicide bombers, have been killed in different province over the past 24 hours, security officials said on Saturday. The incidents of violence took place in Maidan Wardak, Paktika, Nangarhar, Kapisa and Parwan provinces, local…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): The dead body of a radio journalist was retrieved from a water well in his home in the Najrab district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Tuesday. Mohammad Muhsin Hashmi, who worked for the Voice of…
CHARIKAR): A young girl was killed and 11 members of her family were wounded when lightning struck their home in central Kapisa province, an official said. The freak incident happened last night in the Kashkatan village of Hesa-i-Dom district, disaster…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Two teachers of the Alberoni University were arrested after recovery of two anti-tanks mines from their car in central Kapisa province, officials said on Saturday. The arrests were made in Kohistan district, the town’s administrative chief, Abdul…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): The provincial council head, Mohammad Hussain Sanjani on Thursday escaped unhurt in a remote-controlled bomb attack in Mahmood Raqi, the capital of central Kapisa province, an official said. The incident took place at around 10am in the…
JALALABAD (PAN): Kapisa and Kunduz provinces won their matches against Kunduz and Paktika in Etisalat Cricket Cup matches played in Nangarhar province, a cricket board official said on Wednesday. The matches were played in Behsud Pul and Ghazi Amanullah Khan…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): A district chief was gunned down in central Kapisa province on Tuesday morning, an official said. Syed Mushataq Sadaat, the Hesa-i-Dom district’s administrative head, came under fire from unidentified assailants in his village. Three suspects had…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): A person shot dead his mother and sister in the Nijrab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Saturday. This incident took place on Friday night in Kohi area, where Abdul Munir gunned down his…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Insurgents have shot dead a district police crime branch chief in central Kapisa province, an official said on Thursday. Abdul Alim Haidari was leading a raid to capture a local rebel leader, Mullah Nadir, in Dalikhel village,…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN worker who suffered serious injuries after she was attacked by unknown gunman in central Kapisa province died on Sunday. Hasina, aged 20, who works for the vaccination department, was shot near her home on Saturday. Dahom district…
MEHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Three policemen were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Friday, an official said. The police were on a patrol when their vehicle hit a mine in the…
KABUL, where several American soldiers were wounded in the latest incident on July 3. An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier opened fire on US troops, wounding five of them in the central province of Maidan Wardak. It was the 19th…
KABUL): Six local policemen were killed as a result of a suicide bombing and an armed attack in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Wednesday morning. A policeman guarding a security checkpoint was shot dead by a suicide…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Nearly 300 acres of land was cleared of poppy crops as part of a poppy eradication campaign targeting various districts in central Kapisa province, officials said on Monday. Abdul Aleem Ayyar, the provincial anti-narcotics department head, told…
MEHMOOD RAQI (PAN): A number of schoolchildren in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Monday complained they could not go to schools because of security posts established nearby. Taj Mohammad, a ninth class student at the Shaheed Abdul…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN fighters and two civilians were killed, while another seven militants and two civilians wounded during a clash between insurgents and Afghan forces. In an interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, the governor's spokesman, Asadullah Hamidi, said the joint…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Three civilians were killed and seven others injured when two rockets hit houses in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Saturday, an official said. The incident happened in Senzi area during a search operation conducted…
