CHARIKAR): Fourteen kidnapped children of ages between eight and 12 years were rescued from their kidnappers in central Parwan province on Monday, officials said. Kidnapped from northern Kunduz province, the children were freed from their adductors on the Kabul-Balkh highway,…
FARYAB: Police have found three dead bodies, charred beyond recognition, in northern Faryab province, officials said on Tuesday. The bodies, including one beheaded, were found dumped in the Khwaja Paitakht area on the outskirts Miamana City on Monday night, police…
JALALABAD (PAN): The foundation stone of a police logistics centre for the eastern zone was laid in the Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Sunday. The US-funded training and logistics centre would be constructed at a cost…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Five insurgents were killed, three injured and four others detained as a result of a clash in the western province of Farah, officials said on Wednesday. The gunbattle between the police and Taliban took place in the…
JALALABAD (PAN): Three policemen were wounded in a roadside bombing in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday, officials said. The explosion took place at 9am near a police checkpoint in the Angur Bagh area of Jalalabad, the governor’s spokesman,…
QALAT (PAN): Four people, including a policeman, were killed and six others wounded on Friday when a demonstration turned violent in the southern province of Zabul, an official said. Residents of Qalat, the provincial capital, took to the streets against…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): The Sarancharak police headquarters was inaugurated in the northwestern province of Sar-i-Pul, an official said Tuesday. It took two years to construct the facility, said provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Asadullah Shirzad. A US Army engineering team built…
BADGHIS: Three militants and two policemen were killed, and four others including three policemen injured in a clash in northwestern Badghis province, officials said Monday. The clash took place late on Sunday night in the Panirak area of the Bala…
JALALABAD (PAN fighters, including 15 Pakistanis, have been killed and seven police wounded so far in an operation in the Kamdish district of eastern Nuristan province, governor Jamaluddin Badar told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday. Badar said the operation had…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Residents of the central Uruzgan province said Sunday that they had detected a positive change in the behavior of local police who had completed a training programme. "Before, police would misbehave with people during searches, but now we…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Residents of the central Uruzgan province said Sunday that they had detected a positive change in the behavior of local police who had completed a training programme. "Before, police would misbehave with people during searches, but now we…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): A policeman shot dead his six colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place at 8:30 am when a policeman at Moshiki checkpoint in the Qaragh district…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): A policeman shot dead his six colleagues at a checkpoint in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place at 8:30 am when a policeman at Moshiki checkpoint in the Qaragh district…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN fighter was killed and another wounded in a clash with police in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Wednesday. The incident took place late on Tuesday night in the Khan Aqa and Sherabad areas on the outskirts…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 16-year-old boy was killed when police opened fire at his car in the capital of southern Helmand province on Sunday, officials said. The incident occurred during a search in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, said Syed Hanif, a…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Border police commander for the southern region, Brig. Gen. Abdul Raziq, took charge as new police chief for Kandahar province on Sunday. Replacing the slain police chief, Khan Mohammad Mujahid, Raziq assumed charge at a ceremony at…
JALALABAD (PAN airstrike killed many civilians in addition to 35 policemen in Doab district of the eastern province of Nuristan, injured witnesses said on Saturday. The airstrike was an attempt to support the international soldiers to take over Doab district…
JALALABAD (PAN-led international soldiers in Doab district of eastern Nuristan province, the governor said on Friday. The district's administrative head, Fida Mohammad and police chief, Allah Dad, were wounded in the raid, which also killed a number of civilians, Governor…
JALALABAD (PAN): Forty percent of police in the eastern province of Nuristan lack weapons and other equipment needed to fight militants, a senior official said on Monday. The issue was discussed with a joint delegation of the ministries of interior…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Some policemen are collecting the opium tax from farmers while others are smuggling the drug in Deh Raud district of central Uruzgan province, residents alleged on Monday. Checkpoint commanders charge the tax from opium growers in different areas…
KABUL, officials said on Sunday. The policemen were traveling to a checkpoint on Sunday morning when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Chashma area of Awba district in western Herat province. Administrative head of the town, Syed Mohammad Maudoodi,…
JALALABAD (PAN): Police opened fire on people protesting against the killing of a 12-year-old boy by foreign troops in the Hesrak district of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least seven others, officials and the…
JALALABAD (PAN-led troops on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway, the key NATO supply route, in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Thursday. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in Ghanikhel district on Thursday, injuring a policeman, the district chief,…
JALALABAD (PAN-led troops on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway, the key NATO supply route, in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Thursday. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb ripped through a police vehicle in Ghanikhel district on Thursday, injuring a policeman, the district chief,…
