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MPs vow to continue protest

KABUL): Parliamentarians continued to observe a silence for the fourth day in a row on Tuesday in the hope to convince President Hamid Karzai to introduce his remaining Cabinet nominees. Lawmakers passed their time by thumbing desks, reading newspapers and…

Bamyan students protest power outages

BAMAYAN CITY (PAN): Hundreds of university students protested against the night-time suspension of electricity supply in central Bamyan province on Monday. Nearly 300 Bamyan University and religious school students took to the streets at 9pm and started heading toward the…

MPs observe silence to protest delay in Cabinet nominations

KABUL): Parliamentarians observed a day of silence on Thursday to protest President Hamid Karzai's failure to nominate his Cabinet picks and three judges of the apex court. A week back, lawmakers announced a 15-day delay in their summer recess to…

Takhar strike targeted armed group: Investigators

KABUL, in the northern province of Takhar, investigators said on Wednesday. On May 18, a combined Afghan and coalition security force killed four insurgents, including two armed females, during a security operation in Taloqan, the provincial capital. The raid was…

Hundreds rally against NATO forces in Logar

PUL-I-ALAM (PAN-led forces for arresting two sons of a prayer leader. Foreign troops on Thursday night detained the two sons of Maulvi, in the Bazar area during an operation. The district development council head, Mohammad Naeem, told Pajhwok Afghan News…

12 dead, 90 injured as violent Taloqan protest ends

TALOQAN (PAN forces for killing four civilians left a dozen people dead and at least 90 others injured in northern Takhar province, officials said. Several private shops and cars were damaged as the demonstration turned violent in Taloqan, the provincial…

11 dead, 85 injured at protest in Takhar

TALOQAN (PAN raid turned violent in northern Takhar province on Wednesday, officials said. Police opened fire at hundreds of people protesting against the killing of four people, including two women, in Gawmali area, three kilometers from Taloqan, the provincial capital.…

Police fire at protestors in Nangarhar, one dead

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…

10 held for inciting violence during Parwan protest

CHARIKAR): Ten people were detained on Tuesday on the charge of fomenting violence during Monday's protest that resulted in the killing of two demonstrators and injuries to 28 others in the central province of Parwan, an official said. Hundreds of…

One protestor killed, 21 injured in Parwan

CHARIKAR): One man was killed and 21 others were injured during a protest against the detention of religious scholars by foreign troops in the central province of Parwan, officials said. NATO-led forces detained two religious scholars during an operation on…

Clerics seen behind violent Mazar protest

KABUL burning on April 1. "The main reason which turns the protest violent is inflaming speeches by some imams," the delegation said in its report presented to the Meshrano Jirga or upper house of the Parliament on Sunday. Ten foreign…

Hundreds of Khost students rally against Quran burning

KHOSTCITY(PAN burning incident in US. The participants asked the US government to bring to justice the Christian preacher who burned and desecrated the holy book. The demonstration, the latest in a series of similar protests in different parts of the…