KABUL airstrike in Shegal district of eastern Kunar province. After the airstrike in Chawgam area on Saturday, Karzai sent a team to probe the incident on Monday. The delegation that involved Cabinet ministers, lawmakers and senior government officials held interviews…
ASADABAD (PAN): Thirteen missiles were fired by the Pakistani army into the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province on Sunday, an official claimed. The missiles landed in Soor Kamar, Zor Barol and Kachli areas of the district, the governor’s spokesman,…
ASADABAD (PAN army had fired a new barrage of missile into the Dangam district of the eastern province. As many as 27 missiles landed in Zor Barol, Kachli and Soor Kamar areas of the district this afternoon, Wahidi told Pajhwok…
ASADABAD (PAN’s control. The expression of support came at a meeting in Asadabad, the provincial capital, with participants urging the US military to respect Afghanistan’s sovereignty and hand the prison over to Afghan authorities. Governor Fazlullah Wahidi, dozens of civil…
ASADABAD (PAN's Bajaur tribal region. Public Health Director Dr Assadullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News the new round was aimed at acheiving the left-over target in central parts of the province and districts along the Pakistan border including Sarkano, Marawara,…
LASHKARGAH/ASADABAD(PAN): A tribal elder was shot to death by unknown gunmen in the Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province on Wednesday. In eastern Kunar province, a primary sentenced a man to death for killing his step-mother. The elder identified…
ASADABAD (PAN opened in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, on Monday. Besides Kunar, women from neighbouring Nangarhar, central Kabul and Parwan provinces have put on display their products at the show arranged at the governor’s office, said Nooria…
ASADABAD (PAN): Nine people were killed in bomb attacks on border police in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province on Thursday, an official said. The first blast hit a border police patrol in Do Band area in the afternoon,…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two civilians were killed during a bomb blast in the Sarkano district of eastern Kunar province on Friday, an official said. The explosion took place when worshippers were coming out of a mosque in the town, Governor Syed…
ASADABAD (PAN) airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a senior official said on Wednesday. Five children, four women, a man and three insurgent commanders were killed in the overnight raid on a militant hideout in Shegal district, Kunar Governor Syed Fazlullah…
ASADABAD (PAN): More than 21,000 children could not be reached out for administering polio drops in a number of towns in eastern Kunar province owing to insecurity, officials said on Monday. Deputy governor Qazi Mohammad Nabi said around 21,781 children…
ASADABAD (PAN): A newly-constructed building for the Syed Jamaludin Afghan University was inaugurated on Monday in eastern Kunar province, an official said. The Ministry of Higher Education-funded project cost $ 550,000, Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News at…
ASADABAD (PAN): An appellate court on Tuesday reduced a 20-year-old man's sentence of 20 years in jail to 16 years in a murder case in eastern Kunar province. Police detained Mohammad Habib, the convict, seven months ago for killing a…
ASADABAD (PAN): The dead bodies of two kidnapped tribal elders were found in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, officials said. Haji Ali Rahman and Mir Ahmad -- hailing from Saidur and Mashora villages of Chapa Dara district -- were abducted…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two commanders were among seven militants detained during a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces in the eastern province of Kunar, officials said on Monday. The operation was conducted by Afghan and the International Security Assistance Force…
ASADABAD (PAN): A district police chief in eastern Kunar province was sentence to two-and-half years in jail on bribery charges, officials said on Wednesday. Abdul Zahir, the Sawakai district police head, had sought 130,000 afghanis from an Afghan Local Police…
KABUL insurgents and a minor girl were killed in clashes and an airstrike in southern Helmand and eastern Kunar provinces, officials said on Sunday. Five fighters were killed as a result of a US drone strike in the Ailgal area…
ASADABAD (PAN): Five members of a family were killed in an air strike conducted by the International Security Assistance Force in Wanth Waigal district of eastern Nuristan on Wednesday, an official said. Wanth Waigal District Chief Rehmatullah Rehmat told Pajhwok…
ASADABAD (PAN): Five members of a family were killed in an air strike conducted by the International Security Assistance Force in Wanth Wiagal district of eastern Nuristan on Wednesday, an official said. District chief Rehmatullah Rehmat told Pajhwok Afghan News…
ASADABAD (PAN): A newly constructed building for a girls’ high school was inaugurated on Tuesday in the eastern province of Kunar, officials said. The building with 14 classrooms, 10 toilets and drinking water system, was built at a cost of…
ASADABAD (PAN): A recently-constructed building for a girls’ high school was inaugurated in the eastern province of Kunar on Thursday, officials said. The school has been constructed at a cost of 8 million afghanis provided by the Indian government in…
ASADABAD (PAN lodged a complaint with the UNSC over the shelling. The latest in a volley of missile, rocket and artillery shelling by the Pakistani forces hit border villages, said Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi. He said residents suffered properly losses…
ASADABAD (PAN): Residents and political workers in Kunar province on Monday staged a demonstration to condemn periodic attacks from Pakistan into eastern Afghan provinces. Over the past few months, a dozen people have been killed and more than 40 others…
ASADABAD (PAN into eastern Kunar province over the past 24 hours, injuring a young girl, a senior official said on Saturday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the missiles landed in Dangam and Sarkano districts, perishing 20 household…
