The deputy police chief for southeastern Paktika province was among four others wounded in a bomb blast that killed another two policemen in the Omna district on Wednesday, officials said. Paktika police chief Ali Mast Momand told Pajhwok…
Tribal elders in the Zarghun Shar district of southeastern Paktika province on Monday decided to ban giving into marriage girls to settle blood feuds, a practice called ’Bad’. The decision was announced at a jirga of elders, said…
Provincial council members and residents on Sunday claimed Pakistan had completed the construction of a gate and 80 percent works on other military installations in Angoor Ada, a border crossing straddling Pakistan’s South Waziristan Agency and southeastern Paktika…
KABUL-designated district chief, in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Saturday. The Taliban district chief for Gomal, Huzifa, and 43 others were in killed the air-raids that took place for the past three days in the Gomal district, the…
Heavy clashes were underway between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Dand Patan district of southeastern Paktia province, with both sides suffering casualties, an official said on Monday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Basir Khpalwak, the 202nd Border Zone…
Refugees from Pakistan while living in Barmal district of southeastern Paktika province. Thousands of families migrated from Waziristan after the Pakistani military launched a major operation against militants in June last year. Mirza Khan, a refugee from Waziristan,…
A judge was caught red-handed by intelligence officials while he was accepting bribe worth 100,000 afghanis in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Tuesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) official, who spoke on the condition of…
Local residents on Sunday celebrated former Pakistani spymaster Gen. Hamid Gul’s death with pump and show in southeastern Paktika province. The ex-director general of the premier Pakistani intelligence service died of brain hemorrhage in Combined Military Hospital in…
The residents of southeastern Paktika province on Thursday said the security situation had improved with the deployment of Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel, but the unprofessional and untrained force had created many problems for them as well. They…
At least 14 militants have been killed and 18 others wounded in clearing operation and US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar and southeastern Paktika provinces, security officials said on Wednesday. A statement from the 201st Selab Military Corps…
At least 28 rebels, including a dreaded commander of the Haqqani group, have been killed in southern Helmand and southeastern Paktika provinces, officials said on Wednesday. Nabiullah Pirkhail, spokesman for the Paktika governor, told Pajhwok Afghan News Haqqani…
Recent rains and flooding destroyed at least 45 homes and caused huge losses to residents in the provincial capital and some districts of southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Saturday. Provincial Natural Disaster Management Authority head Abdul…
The police chief for Bak Khel district and the town’s administrative chief were wounded in a militants’ attack in southeastern Paktika province, official said Saturday. Nisar Ahmed Abdul Rahimzai, acting provincial police chief, said the district police chief…
At least 11 insurgents have been killed in foreign forces airstrikes and a mine explosion in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Saturday. Nabiullah Pirkhail, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News six militants were killed last…
Hundreds of Afghan students enrolled at Pakistani schools have been paved the ground to study in their home country, officials in southeastern Paktika province said on Tuesday. Nearly 800 students hailing from two border districts --- Barmal and…
Director public health said on Monday that beds facility at the civil hospital in southeastern Paktika province needed to be surged to 200-bed in the wake of growing number of patients. Wali Gul told Afghan Pajhwok News the…
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has ordered the transfer of the Paktika police chief to southern Helmand province, the government announced on Friday. Brig. Gen. Nabi Jan Mullahkhel, who has been the police head for Helmand in the past…
A major highway, connecting three border districts, in southeastern Paktika province has been reopened after remaining closed for nearly a decade, the governor’s house said on Tuesday. The mountainous highway had been closed by militants in the Goshta…
Local residents on Thursday asked the government to reopen a road connecting three border districts in southeastern Paktika province. Insurgents have blocked the road in Gowashtai area for the past eight years. Commuting on the road has been…
Of 358 educational institutions, at least 228 schools have no buildings in this southeastern Paktika province, officials and residents said Tuesday. Another challenge of serious nature is that the province is facing with acute shortage of professional and…
Abdul Karim Matin has been appointed new governor of southeastern Paktika province, the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) announced on Monday. President Ashraf Ghani approved the appointment of Karim Matin as governor of the volatile in line…
More than 100 people on Wednesday staged a protest rally in southeastern Paktika province, calling for the provincial governor and other officials to be sacked. Civil society members, tribal elders, youth and local residents took part in the…
President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday travelled to the Yahyakhel district of southeastern Paktika province to meet relatives of the victims of a suicide attack on a volleyball tournament. On Nov 23, a suicide bomber attacked crowds watching…
New playgrounds have been constructed for ten schools in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Sunday. Provincial Rural Development Director Mohammad Momin Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News the playgrounds in Yousafkhel district and Sharana, the provincial capital,…
