SHARAN (PAN): Residents of southeastern Paktika province on Thursday complained the sale of expired medicines in local drug stores was unchecked, asking the government to stop the practice. Druggists and chemists sold the spurious medicine in the provincial capital, Sharan,…
SHARAN (PAN): Nine members of the local police force were shot dead by their colleague in the Yahyakhel district of southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Friday. Mukhlis Afghan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News two local police officials…
SHARAN (PAN): Unidentified gunmen shot dead the manager of the Melma Radio in Orgun district of southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Wednesday. Saadim Khan, the victim, was contacted over the telephone at around 8pm when did not return…
SHARAN (PAN): Farmers have urged the government to provide them with saffron seeds and arrange training programmes for them in southeastern Paktika province, where poppy cultivation has been reduced to zero, officials said on Wednesday. Despite abject poverty, growers had…
SHARAN (PAN's troubled tribal region of South Waziristan, an official said. A day after his arrival in Kabul on an unannounced trip, Panetta told troops Pakistan should take more steps to secure its side of the border, the Paktika governor's…
KABUL late Tuesday, an official said. The engagement erupted after dozens of militants, armed with small and heavy weapons, stormed a joint military base in Barmal district, governor’s spokesman Mukhlis Afghan told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday. Mukhlis said between…
SHARAN (PAN): The Sarawza district chief succumbed to his injuries sustained in a roadside bombing in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Wednesday. Appointed as the administrative head of the town nine days ago, Mohammad Akbar and his five…
SHARAN (PAN): A district chief and his five guards were injured in a roadside bombing in southeastern Paktika province on Tuesday, an official said. The Sararoza district chief, Mohammad Akbar, was travelling in a car along with his guards in…
SHARAN (PAN): Despite facing a shortage of staff, the income of southeastern Paktika province's revenue department is on the increase, compared to previous years' returns, officials say. Against the 80 approved posts for it, only a dozen employees are currently…
SHARANA (PAN): Wheat production in the southeastern province of Paktika province has decreased by 50 percent this year due to lack of water and good seeds, officials and farmers said. Yaro, a Sharan City farmer, said that his 10 acres…
SHARANA (PAN): Scores of tribal elders and youth attended a gathering in support of the special court’s verdict on the Parliamentary election, a tribal elder said on Monday. Abdul Samad Shahid, a tribal elder in Sharana city, told the gathering…
SHARAN (PAN, Irrigation and Livestock in the southwestern province of Paktika has launched a program to teach local residents the skill of beekeeping. According to the department’s director, Hamidullah Tokhi, the training program cost $130 thousand (about six million afghanis)…
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…
SHARAN (PAN): Up to 250 kilograms of opium and hashish seized from across Paktika province have been destroyed, officials said on Wednesday. Zabihullah Masaud, head of the provincial counter-narcotics department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drugs had been torched…
SHARAN (PAN): Up to 250 kilograms of opium and hashish seized from across Paktika province have been destroyed, officials said on Wednesday. Zabihullah Masaud, head of the provincial counter-narcotics department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the drugs had been torched…
SHARAN (PAN-led troops in the Omna district of southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Thursday. The commander was identified as Mamoor Jan, who was killed along with a dozen others late on Wednesday night, the 203rd Thunder Military Corps spokesman,…
SHARAN (PAN-led troops in the Omna district of southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Thursday. The commander was identified as Mamoor Jan, who was killed along with a dozen others late on Wednesday night, the 203rd Thunder Military Corps spokesman,…
SHARANA (PAN department was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Saturday. Director Gul Mohammad Alikhel was killed late on Friday night on the Sharan-Yousafkhel highway, a statement from the governor's house said. Even though…
SHARAN (PAN): Officials and tribal elders approved a strategic five-year plan for southeastern Paktika province on Wednesday. The directors, district chiefs, and tribal elders of the province reviewed the draft plan during a workshop conducted by the United Nations’ Assistance…
SHARAN (PAN): Two Afghan National Army soldiers were killed and five others wounded when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southeastern Paktika province on Tuesday, an official said. The explosion took place in the Yahyakhel district, a spokesman for…
SHARAN (PAN): Three suspected insurgents were killed by their own explosives in southeastern Paktika province, where a fourth militant died in a clash with police, officials said on Sunday. The three suspected Taliban were killed when the roadside bomb they…
SHARAN (PAN): A district council chief and two militants and a woman have been killed in separate incidents in southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Monday. The tribal elder, Alam Khan Zadran, who was head of Urgun district, was kidnapped…
SHARAN (PAN insurgents have been killed in two separate operations by Afghan and foreign troops in the southeastern province of Paktika, officials said on Tuesday. Sixteen fighters were killed in clashes with a joint force of Afghan National Army and…
