For the first time, the Paktika Milli Television has started local transmission in this southeastern province on Thursday. Governor Paktika Mohibullah Samim, head of the Afghanistan member from the province, Nader Khan Katwazi, senior officials and local elders…
Observers and public awareness officers on Sunday blamed the Independent Election Commission (IEC) director for southeastern Paktika province for involvement in misuse of funds. At least 65 observers and public awareness officers were appointed in July last year…
Locals and officials say medical stores in the Orgun district of southeastern Paktika province are selling expired medicines while the departments concerned are unable to take action against those playing with patients’ lives. Resident Gul Mohammad told Pajhwok…
For the first time, civilian flights have been started to and from an airport formerly used by ISAF forces in Sharan, the capital of southern Paktika province, an official said on Monday. Constructed by ISAF, foreign troops had…
GARDEZ (PAN): Security forces captured truck laden with ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser used for making bombs, on the outskirts of the capital of southeastern Paktia province, officials said on Monday. Col. Zalmai Oryakhel, the provincial police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan…
SHARAN (PAN): Tribal elders in the Mata Khan district of southeastern Paktika province have fixed the bride price -- known as vulvar in local parlance -- at 250,000 afghanis ($4,470). Haji Mohammad Rasul, a tribal elder, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
SHARAN (PAN): The Afghan Local Police (ALP) had been playing active role to ensure peace in southeastern Paktika province and deployment of more ALP officials would further bolster the security of the volatile region, a officials said. Col. Dawlat Khan…
SHARAN (PAN in southern Paktika province. Mohammadullah Himatyar, head of Sewad, a civil society organization, told Pajhwok Afghan News women had been facing severe nature of problems amid dramatic surge in domestic and family disputes. The province had no other…
SHARAN (PAN): The police chief for southeastern Paktika province on Tuesday said he would appear before the attorney general (AG) to answer the allegations leveled against him as soon as he returned from medical treatment in India. Earlier, some media…
SHARAN (PAN authorities say progress has been achieved with regard to girls’ education in southeastern Paktika province, where two schools for the gender are being constructed this academic year. Provincial education director Prof. Kochi Zazai told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands…
SHARAN (PAN): A would-be car suicide attacker was shot dead before he could reach his target in the Khairkot district of southern Paktika province on Monday, an official said. The incident took place at 11am when a car suicide bomber…
KOLKATA (PAN insurgents in southeastern Paktika province. Gunmen entered Kamala’s house, known in India as Sushmita Banerjee, in the Sray Kala area on the outskirts of Sharan, the provincial capital, on Thursday, took her out and shot her, according local…
SHARANA (PAN worker and writer, who wrote a popular memoir about her escape from the Taliban, in southeastern Paktika province, police said on Thursday. Gunmen kidnapped the woman, Sushmita Banerjee also known as Sahib Kamala, last night from the Sray…
SHARAN (PAN): An 18-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on her wedding day in a village on the outskirts of Sharan, the capital of southeastern Paktika province, residents said on Saturday. The incident took place in Selai village.…
SHARAN/GARDEZ (PAN): One insurgent was killed and three others were wounded when the roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Friday. The incident happened in Mata Khan district late on Thursday, the…
SHARANA (PAN activities and their possible clashes with security forces, officials said on Wednesday. Uprooted from Gayan district around a month back, the families have moved to the Argun district’s Manda area. One of the displaced persons, Noor Mohammad, told…
GARDEZ (PAN): More than 50 weapons were handed to Disarmament of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) officials in southeastern Paktika province on Friday. Speaking at an arms transfer ceremony, Governor Mohibullah Samim said that the weapons seized by law-enforcers were to…
SHARAN (PAN): Three people were killed and four others sustained injuries during a clash over the ownership of a land in Argon district of southern Paktika province, police said. An officer in the district crime branch police, Zalmai told Pajhwok…
SHARAN (PAN): Two civilians, six policemen killed and two insurgents were killed in a fresh bout of violence in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Sunday. Police commander Yar Gul told Pajhwok Afghan News the civilians were killed in an…
SHARAN/JALALABAD (PAN): Twenty militants, including two suicide bombers, have been killed in different province over the past 24 hours, security officials said on Saturday. The incidents of violence took place in Maidan Wardak, Paktika, Nangarhar, Kapisa and Parwan provinces, local…
SHARANA/TIRINKOT (PAN): Two schoolchildren were among six civilians killed by roadside bombs in central Uruzgan and southeastern Paktika provinces, officials said on Thursday. The schoolchildren were on their way home on Thursday noon when a Taliban-planted roadside bomb went off…
GARDEZ (PAN): Fifty girl students fell ill and were hospitalised after drinking water from a well inside their school in the Samkani district of southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday, an official said. Education Director Mehrabuddin told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
SHARAN (PAN): Forty-six school buildings would be constructed during the current year in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Monday. The buildings would be constructed in the areas where student are studying under tents or in the open air,…
