ASADABAD (PAN-designated district chief has been killed along with three associates in the eastern province of Kunar, an official said on Saturday. Juma Khan, the Taliban’s head for Ghaziabad district, died in an overnight drone strike in the mountainous area…
ASADABAD (PAN): Pakistani forces have fired a new volley of missiles into the Narai district of eastern Kunar province, a senior official said on Monday. As many as 40 missiles landed in Batash and Ancha areas of the district over…
ASADABAD (PAN insurgents dead on a vehicle in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Sunday. Foreign troops bombed the pick-up truck carrying civilians after four insurgents boarded it on a road in the Watapur district on Saturday, Governor Shujaul Mulk…
KABUL): A suicide bomber has been detained in the Narang district of eastern Kunar province, the Afghan spy service said on Monday. The would-be bomber was trying to conduct a suicide attack in the main district bazaar, a statement from…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two worshippers have been killed in a cross-border missile attack on the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, the police chief said on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Haseeb Syedkhel said one of missiles hit a mosque in the…
ASADABAD (PAN): Seven militants, including a commander, have been killed in a drone strike in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. At least two Arab fighters were among the fatalities resulting from the overnight…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A trader was rescued from unidentified kidnappers by police while five insurgents were arrested in northeastern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. Dawlat Shah, who was abducted two days ago in Ashkmash district of Kunduz, was…
ASADABAD (PAN): A government peace negotiator was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, an official said. Tajbar Khan, a member of the Kunar Peace Committee, was gunned down in the Salampur area of Noorgal district at…
ASADABAD (PAN designated district chief have been killed in two separate incidents of violence in eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Saturday. Shujaul Mulk Jalala said the Taliban shadow district for the Shegal district was killed in a drone…
ASADABAD (PAN): Dozens of Afghan and foreign insurgents stormed the Dangam district centre of eastern Kunar province on Friday morning, killing two policemen and wounding several others. “Five border guards and four national policemen were wounded in the attack that…
ASADABAD (PAN): The new governor of eastern Kunar province on Sunday assumed charge, vowing to fight corruption and bribery at government departments and denying any links with any foreign intelligence agency. “I am a true Afghan and have no links…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai’s advisor Shujaul Mulk Jalala was appointed as new governor of eastern Kunar province on Monday, the Office of Administrative Affairs said. He replaces Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, who was transferred to western Herat province last week. Karzai…
ASADABAD (PAN): An administrative officer has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the eastern province of Kunar, an official said on Sunday. Razi Khan came under attack on his way back home from a mosque in the Korbagh area…
ASADABAD (PAN): Pakistani forces once again fired 90 missiles into Shigal and Sarkano districts of eastern Kunar province, causing no casualties, an official said on Monday. Sixty of the missiles were fired at the Shultan valley of Shigal and 30…
ASADABAD (PAN commander, a shadow district chief, was killed during infighting in eastern Kunar province, suggesting cracks within the rebel movement, an official said on Saturday. Qari Zakir, the Taliban chief for Narai district, was killed as a result of…
ASADABAD (PAN): Three children were killed and seven others, all from the same family, were injured in an overnight drone strike by US-led coalition forces in the Manogai district of eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Thursday. Syed Fazlullah…
ASADABAD (PAN): A woman in eastern in Kunar province was awarded the capital punishment on the charge of beating her daughter-in-law to death. Abetted by her husband Aslat Khan and sons Rahmanullah and Ghatol, Bibi Shireena convict had killed Ayesha…
ASADABAD (PAN military has fired a new barrage of missiles into eastern Kunar province, wounding four people, a senior official said on Sunday. As many as 110 missiles, fired over the past 48 hours, landed in Dangam, Shigal and Sarkano…
ASADABAD (PAN): A polio case has been detected in the Khas Kunar district of eastern Kunar province, where authorities decided to execute fresh polio campaigns, an official said on Tuesday. A baby girl has tested positive for the crippling disease,…
TIRINKOT/JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people in central Uruzgan province on Saturday staged an anti-Pakistani protest, an official said. Nearly 800 people chanted “down with ISI and long live Afghan forces” during the rally in Tirinkot, the provincial capital. Urging the…
ASADBAD (PAN's Bajaur tribal region. Wahidi warned if a major operation was not launched at the earliest, the district that borders Paroon, the capital of neighbouring Nuristan province, could fall to the rebels. He claimed armed insurgents continued to sneak…
ASADABAD (PAN): A judge in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday sentenced three men to death for killing a woman in Manogi district. The victim, a 25-year-old, and the mother of four, was allegedly stabbed with a knife before beheading her…
ASADABAD (PAN airstrike in eastern Kunar were on Monday paid $1,824 (100,000 afghains) in compensation for each dead and 50,000afs for each injured, officials said. The last week's airstrike in Shegal district killed 17 people, including 12 children, and injured…
ASADABAD (PAN were killed in Marawara district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. Seven missiles were fired from Pakistan on Friday night, with two of them hitting a house in Chinar village that lies near the Pakistani…
