MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Fourteen prisoners were released and jail terms of another 40 inmates reduced in compliance with a presidential decree in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Sunday. President Hamid Karzai had issued the decree on the…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Highway security and bridge construction projects would be initiated soon in Maidan Wardak and Ghazni provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Addressing a joint press conference, Maidan Wardak Governor Muhammad Haleem Fidayee and his Ghazni counterpart Musa Khan…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): The Security Transition Commission chairman on Wednesday discussed the second phase of the switch with officials and influential figures in central Maidan Wardak province. Foreigners could not maintain Afghanistan's security and there would be no improvement in…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN) airstrike in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night in Chak district, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said the insurgents intended to fire missiles…
BADAKHSHAN: A Taliban group leader has been detained by intelligence operatives in Faizabad city, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The National Directorate of Security official, who did not want to be named, identified the…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Sunday. Partially damaging the mosque, the shells were fired late on Saturday in Daimirdad district, where people attended a Quran recitation ceremony, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor's spokesman, told…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Monday ordered an investigation into civilian deaths during a nighttime operation by international troops in the central province of Maidan Wardak. NATO-led soldiers killed three relatives a former senator, Sami Jan Sherzad, and detained two…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Monday ordered an investigation into civilian deaths during a nighttime operation by international troops in the central province of Maidan Wardak. NATO-led soldiers killed three relatives a former senator, Sami Jan Sherzad, and detained two…
FARAH: A National Directorate of Security (NDS) was killed in a bomb blast in the western province of Farah, an official said. A remote-controlled bomb, planted on a motorcycle, was detonated at 5:30pm when the Anar Dara district intelligence officer…
MAIDAN SHAHR: (PAN-led troops in separate operations in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Wednesday. Shahidullah Shahid, the provincial governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers conducted an operation in Chak district on Tuesday…
FARYAB: Two guerrillas were killed during a fight with police in the Almar district, district chief Mohammad Omar said. The clash erupted after a group of insurgents stormed a police check-post in the Qurda Qala area, the district chief, he…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says it is investigating how three civilians, including a female doctor, were discovered killed following a clash between insurgents and international troops. The doctor’s husband was also injured in the incident,…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): One policeman was injured in a result of mine explosion in central province of Wardak, an official said on Saturday. Provinical governor's spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the explosion took place at around 7am. The explosives had been…
FARAH: Two Taliban fighters were killed during a cleanup operation by Afghan National Army (ANA) and police on Monday in the Khake Safed district of western Farah province. Also in Farah, two of 30 residents of the Tot region who…
KABUL) on Thursday denied it killed guards of a private security company during Wednesday's airstrike in the central province of Maidan Wardak. Haji Arif, an official with private security firm Najeeb Ghorbandi, on Wednesday told Pajhwok Afghan News that an…
KABUL) on Thursday denied it killed guards of a private security company during Wednesday's airstrike in the central province of Maidan Wardak. Haji Arif, an official with private security firm Najeeb Ghorbandi, on Wednesday told Pajhwok Afghan News that an…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN airstrike in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, witnesses said. The air raid was carried out in Salar village of the district in the afternoon, Haji Arif, the owner of a private security…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN airstrike in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, witnesses said. The air raid was carried out in Salar village of the district in the afternoon, Haji Arif, the owner of a private security…
KABUL to renounce violence and join the peace process. Hundreds of clerics from Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Logar, Maidan Wardak and Kabul provinces attended the gathering to discuss the role of religious scholars in bringing peace, stability, national unity, and…
KABUL to renounce violence and join the peace process. Hundreds of clerics from Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni, Logar, Maidan Wardak and Kabul provinces attended the gathering to discuss the role of religious scholars in bringing peace, stability, national unity, and…
MAIDAN SHAR (PAN survived a rocket attack on Wednesday in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said. Second Vice President Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Bismillah Muhammadi were among officials participating in the inauguration ceremony of a police training…
MAIDAN SHAR (PAN survived a rocket attack on Wednesday in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said. Second Vice President Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Bismillah Muhammadi were among officials participating in the inauguration ceremony of a police training…
KABUL, officials said on Tuesday. Four fighters and a civilian were killed during a clash between police and Taliban in Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province, crime branch chief, Col. Gulab Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The clash erupted…
KABUL, officials said on Tuesday. Four fighters and a civilian were killed during a clash between police and Taliban in Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province, crime branch chief, Col. Gulab Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The clash erupted…
