Hundreds of policemen on Monday completed an election security course in southern Helmand province. Presidential and provincial polls are slated for April 5. Addressing the passing-out ceremony, Training Centre Commander Abdul Mohammad Zafarkhel said the policemen had been…
At least two policemen have been killed and three others wounded in a roadside bombing in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Saturday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Four Afghan army and two police personnel were killed on Saturday when a booby-trapped bomb they were attempting to defuse exploded in eastern Laghman province, an official said. The blast occurred in the morning when the security officials…
Five policemen, including a senior officer were killed in different clashes in northern Faryab and Kunduz provinces, officials said Thursday. Abdul Qadir Qaderi, Pashtunkot district chief of Faryab, told Pajhwok Afghan News police commander, Dastan, and…
Three policemen were killed and two others, including a civilian, wounded in a bomb blast in the Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province on Saturday. Hayatullah Amiri, the district’s administrative head, told Pajhwok afghan News that a…
KANDAHAR CITY: (Pajhwok): About 529 police officers received graduation certificates from a police training centre in southern Kandahar province, security officials said on Thursday. A number of security officials attended the graduation ceremony for the policemen on completion of the…
Six border policemen were killed and a seventh injured on Monday when one of their colleagues opened fire on them in western Herat province, officials said. Col. Abdur Rauf Ahmadi, the provincial police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan…
A police and an inmate were wounded in a dispute between jail guards and prisoners inside the jail of southern Ghazni province, an official said. The dispute occurred after guards were forcing their way inside the block…
Four border policemen were killed in an insurgent attack in southeastern Khost province on Saturday, the governor’s house said. The policemen were returning to duty from their homes when they were ambushed by a group of armed…
KABUL): The South Korean government on Saturday announced $50 million in assistance to Afghan National Police (ANP). A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to the effect was signed in Kabul by representatives of the two countries. Lt. Gen Mohammad Haidar Basir,…
KABUL): Five people were killed and 30 kilograms of drugs seized during separate incidents in Ghazni, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces, officials said on Saturday. Three public order police were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Shahbaz…
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…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The deputy governor of northern Balkh province on Sunday escaped unhurt in a suicide attack, which caused several civilian casualties, an official said. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdur Rahman Rahimi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the suicide…
GHAZNI (PAN): Three policemen harassing girls were beaten and their vehicle torched by residents in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place in the Hyderabad area on the outskirts of Ghazni City, the provincial capital…
JALALABAD (PAN): The new police chief says he has put in place measures to improve the security situation in eastern Nangarhar province, including withdrawal of security guards from very prominent persons (VIPs). Brig. Gen. Fazl Ahmad Sherzad told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL): At least four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members were killed after a group of insurgents stormed their post in northwestern Badghis province on Thursday, an official said. The incident took place in Mullakafa area of Bala Murghab district, the…
SHARAN/GHAZNI (PAN): Five policemen and a young woman have been killed in separate security incidents in Paktika and Ghazni provinces, officials said on Wednesday. Three policemen were killed and two others wounded late on Tuesday when their pick-up struck a…
HERAT CITY (PAN insurgents killed four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members during an attack on their post in the Shindand district of western Herat province, a public representative said on Thursday. Provincial council member Noor Mohammad Zarifi told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
CHARIKAR): Parwan Governor Abdul Basir Salangi has said it is difficult to combat the drug trade in the central province because some police officials are involved in the illicit commerce. “Drug trade is common in Charikar and other parts of…
KABUL and 180 civilians were killed, a Ministry of Interior (MoI) official said on Monday. Most police casualties resulted from the roadside bombs planted by insurgents, MoI spokesman Ghulam Siddique Siddiqui told a joint press conference with his ISAF counterparts…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Nine policemen and four insurgents were killed during a clash in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Wednesday. Provincial police chief said Lt. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad said the clash broke out after the…
MAIMANA (PAN insurgents killed five Afghan Local Police (ALP) members during attacks on three security posts in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. The security posts were attacked in Nawabad and Khwaja Kinti areas…
KABUL (PAN): The Ministry of Interior on Saturday took charge of training responsibility from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at the Kabul Police Training Centre. The training centre commander, Brig. Gen. Abdul Baseer Syedkheli, said at a ceremony held…
