Eight police officers have been referred to the judicial organs in central Maidan Wardak province for allegedly committing negligence in duty, an official said on Friday. Maidan Wardak police chief Brig. Gen. Ahmad Fahim Qaim said the eight…
KABUL militants killed in a drone strike in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Monday. The governor’s spokesman, Abdul Rahman Mangal, told Pajhwok Afghan News the drone killed Mullah Bashir along with his five accomplices in Narkh district…
The first-ever ski club was inaugurated in the Hesa-i-Awal Behsud district of central Maidan Wardak province on Saturday, an official said. Hesa-i-Awal Behsud district chief Abdul Ghani Qalandari told Pajhwok Afghan News it was the first even…
Taliban militants have established a ‘customs check-point’ between central Maidan Wardak and Logar provinces and take money from vehicles, government officials claim, but the rebels reject the claim. Mohammad Rahim Amin, administrative chief of Baraki Barak district, said…
KABUL militants hanged a university student in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Saturday. The governor’s spokesman, Abdul Rahman Mangal, told Pajhwok Afghan News Faiz Rahman, a final year student of civil engineering at the Kabul Polytechnic University, was…
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been accused of killing two civilians in central Maidan Wardak province, but the troops rejected the claim as baseless. Sharifullah Hotak, deputy head of the provincial council, claimed the soldiers shot dead…
KABUL-fired mortar strike on the civil hospital in the capital of central Madian Wardak province on Wednesday. The Taliban militants fired mortars into Maidan Shahr city targeting security posts on the Kabul-Kandahar and Maidan Shahr-Bamyan highways this morning. A provincial…
Afghan security forces repulsed a massive insurgent attack on their posts in the Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Saturday. Hundreds of Taliban gunmen stormed security posts in Khwaja Sahib area of the…
More than 100 students, mostly girls, mysteriously fell ill and were hospitalized in the Behsud-1 district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, officials said. The students included 100 girls and 15 boys who fell unconscious after…
KABUL commander was among six others killed during a raid by personnel of the Afghan Special Forces Unit in central Maidan Wardak province. A MoI statement said the Taliban commander, Toryalai, was killed along with his five comrades on Tuesday…
A Swedish non-government organization on Wednesday said international troops were almost certainly involved in a military raid that led to the killing of three people after being taken away from a clinic in central Maidan Wardak province. Jorgen…
KABUL (SCA) in central Maidan Wardak province, residents said on Thursday. The health facility in the Tangi Saidan area of Daimirdad district came under attack last night, an inhabitant told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. The raid drew…
Fifteen people were injured on Friday when a van and a car collided head-on on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in central Maidan Wardak province. The collision occurred in Kashmiran area on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, the provincial capital,…
President Ashraf Ghani, who visited central Maidan Wardak province, on Friday said the perpetrators of a mortar shelling that killed nine civilians in the Syedabad district would be punished. About two weeks ago, mortar shells fired by Afghan…
At least 10 people were killed and another six wounded when a mortar allegedly fired by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops hit a mosque in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Friday, residents said.…
The Maidan Wardak government would appoint new officials in cooperation with the central authority to replace acting departmental heads over the next 100 days, an official said on Monday. This was told by Governor Hayatullah Hayat to…
The electronic truck-scale’s daily revenue in central Maidan Wardak province has increased manifold compared to past years. During the last one year, average daily income from the weighbridge had been 15,000 afghanis but currently it stood at…
Officials in central Maidan Wardak province on Thursday alleged some Wolesi Jirga in their propaganda war. They told a press conference here the Taliban had been planning in recent weeks to carry out suicide and other terrorist…
A three-day apple exposition also showcasing other known agricultural products produced in central Maidan Wardak province was inaugurated here on Wednesday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the expo was aimed at finding market…
The public works director for central Maidan Wardak province has been arrested on bribery charges, an official said on Sunday. The director, Syed Yunus Najafizada, was arrested by officials from the Ministry of Interior Serious Crimes Department…
Unknown gunmen have blown up and destroyed a renowned shrine in the capital of central Maidan Wardak province, officials and residents said on Sunday. The 50-year-old shrine of Mullah, was destroyed with explosives last night, a resident…
At least 13 militants were killed and another 18 wounded during separate clashes with Afghan forces in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Thursday. Governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News 12 rebels were…
The administrative head for Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province was among eight people injured in a traffic accident that left a woman dead on Thursday, an official said. The district chief, Mohammad Hashim, was travelling…
Thirty-eight women on Sunday graduated from a two-year nursing programme aimed at reducing maternal-child mortality rates in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said. The training programme, the first-ever Wardak, cost 28 million afghanis which had been provided…
