Taliban militants shot dead two civilians after briefly kidnapping them in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. The pair was abducted and killed in Sarkano district on Tuesday, provincial police chief, Brig Gen Abdul Habib Syed Khail…
A three-year-old girl has been diagnosed poliovirus positive in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, the first case surfacing in the province this year, an official said on Sunday. Kunar public health director Dr Asadullah Fazli told…
Kunar Governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala on Monday said a search operation had been accelerated to recover missing Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers. As a result of a daring predawn Taliban attack, 21 ANA personnel were killed and eight…
Five insurgents and one Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier were killed during an overnight clash in eastern Kunar province, police said on Thursday. The clash in the Saw area of Narai district broke out late on Wednesday night,…
Rich tributes were paid to prominent writer and religious figure Maulvi Abdul Khaliq Ikhlas on his 112th birth anniversary in eastern Kunar province on Monday. A day-long seminar was organised by Zalmai Hewadmal, advisor to the president on…
KABUL): A years-long enmity between two influential families turned into friendship in eastern Kunar province, the Commission on Tribal Disputes Resolution at the Presidential Palace said on Thursday. The rivalry between families of Haji Malak Zarin and Haji Tor Khan…
ASADABAD (PAN): Inmates at the central jail in eastern Kunar province on Thursday called off a four-day hunger strike after they were assured by the governor that their problems would be resolved. The prisoners had been denying food at the…
ASADABAD (PAN): A resident of the Noorgal district of eastern Kunar province was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for killing his wife, an official said. The verdict was handed down at the end of an open trial…
ASADABAD (PAN): The governor of eastern Kunar province and other local officials travelled to Chapa Dara district to distribute food and winter aid to deserving families. Locals and government employees had been unable to commute on the highway leading from…
ASADABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people in eastern Kunar province on Sunday held a protest demonstration against cross-border rocket attacks by Pakistani forces into Dangam district of the province, an official and residents said. The protesters gathered in Dangam district…
ASADABAD (PAN): Police claimed Pakistani military fired at least 38 long-range rockets into border districts in eastern Kunar province on Saturday, the day Pakistani prime minister arrived in Kabul for a day-long visit. Kunar police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib…
ASADABAD (PAN): Four lady teachers were wounded on Monday when mortar shells struck their school in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, an official said. The school’s headmistress was among those wounded by the Taliban-fired mortar shells, the governor’s…
ASADABAD/KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Ten militants have been killed and 10 security personnel injured in security offensives and other incidents of violence in different parts of the country, officials said Saturday. Kunar police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Sayedkhel told Pajhwok…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two civilians and a policeman were killed and two others injured in a roadside bombing in eastern Kunar province, a provincial security official said on Thursday. Kunar police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
ASADABAD (PAN): Suspected insurgents have set alight houses of several Afghan Local Police (ALP) members in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. The ALP personnel’s houses were torched last night in Yakha China and Wali areas of Khas…
ASADABAD (PAN): Residents of eastern Kunar province complain of rising corruption in judicial organs, but the chief judge promises prosecution of those involved in graft. A resident of Asmar district, Abdul Wali, alleged bribery had been rampant in judicial departments,…
ASADABAD (PAN, in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. Sadatullah Mirza, who is responsible for public awareness programmes at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) office in Kunar, told Pajhwok Afghan News mobile teams had been tasked with issuing…
JALALABAD (PAN): Former provincial council heads of eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces have been disqualified from contesting the provincial council elections slated for April 5, 2014, an official said Thursday. In the IEC preliminary list issued two days back, as…
ASADABAD (PAN airstrike in the Shigal district of eastern Kunar province on Sunday noon, the district chief said. Abdul Zahir Sapi told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike in Chogam area came after militants fired two rockets at the district headquarters.…
ASADABAD (PAN, taking 20 weapons and a military tank with him in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Sunday. Governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala told Pajhwok Afghan News the Sarkano district-based officer fled in a tank with 20 weapons to the…
ASADABAD (PAN executed two young boys on spying charges, an official said on Sunday. Militants fired mortar shells at a base of foreign troops in Asadabad, the provincial capital, sparking a retaliatory fire from the troops, the governor said. Shujaul…
ASADABAD (PAN leader in his province. Shujaul Mulk Jalala was speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News two days after a media report said a fugitive Pakistani Taliban leader, Mullah’s Bajaur tribal region. But the Pakistani Taliban have denied Fazlullah, 39, who…
ASADABAD (PAN) attorney for eastern Kunar province was killed by a remote-controlled bombing on Tuesday morning, an official said. Malang, the intelligence service attorney, came under attack in the Andarser area on the outskirts of Asadabad at 8am, the provincial…
ASADABAD (PAN): A woman was killed and two children were wounded as a result of nearly 60 missiles fired by Pakistani forces into eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. The Pakistan military slammed 59 missiles over the past 24…
