KABUL (PAN): Two people have died and five others sustained injuries in two separate accidents involving cars in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Wednesday. A car carrying a Sikh family collided head-on with another car in Sysi…
KABUL attack in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Sunday. Militants stormed the tankers on the Kabul-Ghazni highway near the Salar Bazaar in Syedabad district on Saturday evening, burning 23 tankers, a source confided to Pajhwok Afghan News. He…
KABUL): Hundreds of nomadic Kuchis on Monday took to the streets in central Maidan Wardak provinces against Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers. The soldiers prevented them from entering their homes in Hazara-dominated areas of Wardak, Haji Alok Kakozai, an organiser…
KABUL insurgents, officials and residents claimed on Sunday. The governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, alleged the Pakistanis had entered Afghanistan from the Waziristan tribal region and they had a vast experience in carrying out terrorist activities. “They enjoy support from local…
KABUL clinic was inaugurated in the Deh Rawud district of central Uruzgan province on Wednesday, when repair work on a key highway finished in Maidan Wardak province. An inaugural ceremony for the ward, costing $5 million, was attended by provincial…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN fighters after an HIA commander was killed in a roadside bombing in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Saturday. The HIA commander, Khan Jee, was killed along with a friend in the blast on Friday…
WASHINGTON (PAN, Gen. Joseph Dunford, told US Senators on Tuesday. “In honesty what I told President Karzai when that (transition in one district of Wardak province) was over, frankly that turned out to be a model for transition,” Dunford told…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have assumed full control for security in Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province, the US military and Afghan officials said on Monday. ANA troops from 3rd Toli, 4th Brigade, 203rd Corps…
MAIDAN WARDAK (PAN and Hazara tribes in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said. Despite efforts at the governmental level, the 30-year dispute between the tribes over the ownership of meadows in Daimirdad and Behsud districts has sparked several bloody…
KABUL): The visiting Turkish defence minister says his country has executed 164 development projects in the central province of Maidan Wardak. Ankara would continue to fund uplift schemes in the strategic province, Ismet Yilmaz assured Governor Abdul Majid Khogyani at…
KABUL): Afghan National Army (ANA) commandos on Saturday took over a base of US special forces in central Maidan Wardak province -- meeting a longstanding demand of the Karzai administration. Afghan and American officials confirmed the transfer of the military…
KABUL): Two Pakistani militants were killed and as many others were wounded during a clash with US troops in the central province of Maidan Wardak, an official said on Tuesday. The clash came during an operation in the Band area…
KABUL): The Ministry of Counternarcotics would launch and complete various development projects, costing $2.4 million (126 million afs), in central Maidan Wardak, an official said on Monday. The approval came at a meeting between Counternarcotics Minister Zarar Ahmad Muqbil,…
KABUL): Residents and officials of central Maidan Wardak province on Monday welcomed President Hamid Karzai’s decision giving the US special forces two weeks to leave the province. Residents have been complaining over the past few months that they were harassed,…
KABUL (PAN): Seven civilians and four armed rebels were killed during a predawn operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, officials said. The governor's office said the raid was carried out by Afghan and foreign…
KABUL): The Presidential Palace on Sunday tasked a commission to look into the alleged complaints over operations conducted by foreign and local forces in central Maidan Wardak province. A statement from the secretariat of Minister's Council said the commission, led…
KABUL): In a daring jailbreak, three inmates escaped from the main prison in central Maidan Wardak province Friday morning, a top police official said. Five inmates tried to flee through the main gate of the Maidan Shahr Central Jail at…
KABUL): Militants fired three missiles into Maidan Shahr, the capital of central Maidan Wardak province, on Wednesday evening. Governor Halim Fidae confirmed the missile strike to Pajhwok Afghan News, saying the attack caused no casualties or damage to property. “People…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN, calling for girls’ schools to be kept open in the central province of Maidan Wardak. The rally in Maidan Shahr, the provincial capital, was attended by about 300 women from various districts. They were chanting the slogan…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Senior representatives from interior and defence ministry on Wednesday decided to launch a search operation and set up new check-points in insecure parts of central Maidan Wardak province. Acting Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi, his deputy Abdur Rahman…
BAGRAM (PAN and said it was the handiwork of pro-militant group to rile up anti-security forces sentiments among the public. On Saturday morning, hundreds of people staged demonstrations in the Sayyidadbad district to protest the acts of coalition forces, including…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Seven suspected militants were killed while planting roadside bombs in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said on Friday. Four of the rebels, planting a roadside bomb in the Kaj Qala area of Syedabad district, were…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN department in central Maidan Wardak province, the governor’s office said. The vehicles worth $450,000 (22,446,000 afghanis) had jointly been donated by the Turkish Provincial Reconstruction), the governor’s house said in a statement. It said the assistance would…
KABUL leaders were arrested during a joint operation by an Afghan-coalition force in Maidan Shahr, the capital of central Maidan Wardak province on Friday, the alliance said. Two of the leaders planned and conducted attacks against Afghan and coalition forces…
