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Nuristan clashes leave 4 militants dead: police

JALALABAB (PAN): Four militants were killed and several others were wounded in clashes with security forces after hundreds of insurgents attacked security posts in the eastern province of Nuristan, an official said on Wednesday. Laced with AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and…

600kgs of drugs seized in Nimroz

ZARANJ (PAN): Police confiscated up to 600 kilograms of narcotics during a raid on a house in the southwestern province of Nimroz, officials said on Sunday. The raid was carried out in Zaranj city, the provincial capital, on Saturday night,…

4 policemen dead in Ghazni insurgent attack

GHAZNICITY (PAN): Four policemen were killed and a fifth injured when their patrol vehicle was attacked by a group of insurgents in the southern province of Ghazni on Sunday, officials said. The attack took place in Kohna Deh village of…

5 militants killed in Helmand clash

LASHKARGAH/HERAT CITY (PAN fighters were killed during a clash with police in southern Helmand province, officials said on Thursday. The clash broke out after insurgents stormed police checkpoints in Tarkoshili, Band-i-Barq and Saydan areas of Greshk district late on Wednesday…

17 police killed in Helmand counternarcotics drive

LASHKARGAH (PAN): Seventeen counternarcotics policemen have been killed and 22 wounded during an ongoing poppy eradication campaign in southern province of Helmand, an official said on Wednesday. During the drive launched a month back, 11 Taliban fighters were also killed,…

Mastermind behind attack on police chief detained

KANDAHAR (PAN): The mastermind behind a suicide attack on the Kandahar police chief, Brig. Gen. Khan Mohammad Mujahid, has been arrested in the southern province, an official said on Wednesday. Mujahid was killed along with his two bodyguards in the…

6 policemen dead in Ghazni roadside blast

GHAZNICITY (PAN): Six policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Ghazni on Monday, officials said. The blast took place when a police vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Peerka area of Khogyani district, the…

Police checkpoint commander killed in Sar-i-Pul

SAR-I-PULCITY(PAN): A police checkpoint commander has been killed in an insurgent attack in northern Sar-i-Pul province, officials said on Monday. The commander, Mohammad Rasul, was heading toward the checkpoint in Imam, police chief, Brig. Gen. Asadulalh Sherzad, told Pajhwok Afghan…

9 dead in Kandahar police centre attack

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Six policemen and three suicide attackers were killed and another 12 people wounded in suicide blasts and gun attacks in southern Kandahar province on Thursday, officials said. The six security personnel were killed when a suicide attacker…

Balochistan police chief injured in suicide blast

QUETTA(PAN's southwestern Balochistan province was among more than a dozen people injured in a suicide blast on his residence on Thursday, an official said. One policeman was killed and another 14, including Wazir Khan, the provincial police chief, were injured…