ASADABAD (PAN): Five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed as a result of a suicide attack in the eastern province of Kunar, officials said on Wednesday. The suicide attack took place after a roadside bomb on Tuesday evening in…
ASADABAD (PAN, residents of Dangam district in eastern Kunar province on Monday warned to rise in arms against Pakistani forces if the incursions continued. Hundreds of residents gathered in the town on the Pakistani border to condemn the missile attacks,…
ASADABAD (PAN): Amid increasing anger among residents, artillery shells fired from the Pakistani soil continued to hit villages in eastern Kunar province, where 91 artillery rounds landed over the past 24 hours, an official said on Friday. The spokesman for…
ASADABAD (PAN, asking the government to effectively respond to the aggression. Religious scholars, who addressed the gathering in Asadabad, the provincial capital, said counterattacks by residents were justified by the Islamic Shariah. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, lawmakers from Kunar in…
JALALABAD (PAN airstrike in the Chapa Dara district of eastern Kunar province on Saturday, police said. The attack on the Hussainzoy village came after the rebels arrested four men involved in a family dispute, the district police chief, Najibullah, told…
JALALABAD (PAN): One border policeman was killed and five others were wounded during a clash with Pakistani security forces in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday. The skirmish was touched off by a Pakistani attacks on police checkpoints in the Binshai…
ASADABAD (PAN): Officials on Saturday said forest in the eastern Kunar province caught fire due to missiles fired by Pakistani forces on the Narai district. Since morning until 8 pm on Friday, Pakistani troops fired 61 missiles on Tabash area…
ASADABAD (PAN): Police had arrested three suspects in connection with the beheading of a young girl in the Sawki district of eastern Kunar province, officials said on Friday. The victim, Shabana, an 11th class student, was brutally murdered by unknown…
ASADABAD (PAN, officials said on Wednesday. More than 50 missiles landed in Dangam district of the province, injuring two people and damaging properties, the governor’s spokesman Washifullah Wasifi told Pajhwok Afghan News. The missiles are fired by Pakistani forces on…
ASADABAD (PAN): A child was killed after Pakistani army fired 50 missiles at the Narai district in the eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. Pakistan fired 50 missiles on Sunday and Monday nights in the Batash area of the…
ASADABAD (PAN attacks in the eastern province of Kunar on Friday, officials said. Three people, including two children, were killed and six others wounded as a result of four Taliban-fired mortar shells that landed in a civilian house in Watapur…
ASADABAD (PAN): A poppy eradication campaign was launched on Sunday in eastern Kunar province, where cultivation of the illicit crop increased by 50 percent in 10 districts, officials said. The campaign supervisor, Idrees Sapi, told Pajhwok Afghan News that nearly…
KABUL): An Afghan government peace negotiator was killed in a suicide attack in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province on Friday, officials said. Province council head Maulvi in the district centre, was killed in the bombing, the provincial police…
ASADABAD (PAN militants and five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed during a fierce gun-battle in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Saturday. Backed by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops, the ANA Special Forces personnel clashed with the…
ASADABAD (PAN insurgents during a clash between both sides in the eastern province of Kunar, an official said on Friday. Provincial police chief, Col. Ghulamullah Nuristani, told Pajhwok Afghan News, that the clash erupted in Badin and Badmok areas of…
TIRINKOT (PAN militants were killed and three others arrested in the Chori district of central Uruzgan province on Sunday, an official said. The incident took place at around 5 am in Kashi area of the district, where police security post…
ASADABAD (PAN’s lawless tribal region of Bajaur and Mohmand. Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News, Wahidi said he came under attack from gunmen in the Patang area of Noor Gul district at around 3pm. “My guards returned fire, forcing the assailants…
ASADABAD (PAN): The law and order situation has improved in four districts of eastern Kunar province following the deployment of a local police force, officials said on Wednesday, but residents called for the force to undergo more professional training. Provincial…
ASADABAD (PAN’s northwestern city of Peshawar in their maiden match of a three-day tournament that began in the eastern Afghan province on Thursday. Featuring teams from Kunar and Peshawar, the Peace Cricket Tournament is being played at the Kunar Stadium…
ASADABAD (PAN): Hundreds of people rallied for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, against the governor for what they alleged committing fraud in recently held provincial council administrative board’s polls. The…
ASADABAD (PAN in the near future to attract the country’s support for the international community’s efforts at bringing peace to Afghanistan. Visiting the eastern province of Kunar, Kubis held meetings with Governor Fazlullah Wahidi and other local officials and discussed…
TIRINKOT/ASADABAD (PAN): Administrative boards’ elections of provincial councils in central Uruzgan and eastern Kunar provinces were held on Wednesday amid allegations of favoritism. The voting took place in the presence of officials from the Governor's House, Independent Election Commission (IEC…
ASADABAD (PAN Minister Dr. Ghulam Farooq Wardak on Wednesday inaugurated a newly-constructed hostel at a teacher training institute in eastern Kunar province. A ceremony for the hostel in Asadabad was attended by Governor Syed Fazalullah Wahidi, head of the Islamic…
ASADABAD (PAN. Maulvi Shafiullah, a member of council and resident of neighbouring Nuristan province, was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Asmar district of Kunar on Friday. Although Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has not said anything regarding the incident, a…
