KABUL border. Seventeen suspected rebels were killed and two others injured in the CIA-operated drone attack on a house in the volatile region late on Tuesday night. Four missiles were fired from the drone on the house in Sirai Darpakhel…
KABUL (PAN): Dozens of people on Monday staged a protest against Kabul police for killing seven people in the Deh Sabz district of the capital. Seven civilians were killed and several others wounded last week during a clash between police…
HERAT (PAN): Hundreds of Heart University students staged a protest, demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights they said was un-Islamic. The protesters warned of continued and violent protests if the parliament approved the law.
HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning at the central jail in western Herat province. Satisfied with the punishment, parents of the…
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of people continued protests across Afghanistan for the sixth straight day on Wednesday against Pakistani attacks on Afghan border posts. In the heavily-fortified capital, Kabul University students took to the streets, chanting anti-Pakistan slogans and setting President…
KANDAHAR (PAN): Hundreds of people protests against Pakistan in Kandahar, Baghlan and Kunduz provinces for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, officials said. Similar rallies were stages in, Khost and Parwan provinces. The participants called for the Karzai administration to…
KABUL (PAN): The government should not subject media organisations to selective treatment to promote the freedom of expression in the country, the deputy minister of information and culture said on Tuesday. Addressing a function on World Press Freedom Day, Din…
KABUL (PAN): The video shows two inmates in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison go on hunger strike and sew their lips to protest denial of theirs rights. These two Inmates first read a paper and then sew their lips. The reason for…
JALALABAD (PAN): Hhundreds of protestors in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday blocked all entrances to the capital city of Jalalabad to protest what they alleged Governor Gul Agha Sherzai had grabbed government lands and pocketed development funds. Abdul Zahir Qadir,…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Relatives and residents of western Herat province on Thursday refused to bury the dead bodies of 13 Afghans executed in Iran until an international probe into the deaths was launched. Placed in coffins, the bodies were on…
JALALABAD (PAN): Calling on all parties to the conflict to cease fire, journalists and writers in eastern Afghanistan on Monday said they had become tired of filing stories on endemic violence. The call came from a large number of members…
KABUL (PAN): The special People on Monday staged a protest in front of the Presidential Palace in Kabul, seeking their rights land plots. More than 200 physicall challenged individuals marched from Deh Afghanan area and gathered near the Zambaq Square…
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of people rallied in Kabul on Saturday against US troops’ high-handedness and called for their withdrawal from the central Maidan Wardak province. In response to public complaints against the US special forces, the National Security Council had…
KABUL since the start of the current year, an international group said on Wednesday. Voicing its concern about an increase in harassment and violence against journalists and sanctions against news media, Reporters Without Borders said: “We urge the authorities to…
JALALABAD (PAN): Hundreds of university students on Monday staged a protest against the detention of 23 fellows by intelligence officials in eastern Nangarhar province. The Nangarhar University students blocked the Kabul-Jalalabad Highway for traffic for several hours, accusing security forces…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Industrialists in western Herat province on Thursday announced a three-day halt to production activity to mourn the death of a colleague's son in captivity of his kidnappers. The protesting industrialists asked the government to bring to justice…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Residents on Thursday protested against the government for not consulting them on the appointment of high-ranking official in northern Kunduz province. More than 200 protestors, including religious scholars and influential figures, warned of blocking Kunduz-Kabul highway if…
KABUL (PAN): Residents of Khak-i-Jabar district protest against the Kuchi tribe in Kabul on Tuesday. The protesters accused two parliament members Mola Tarakhil Mohammadi and Habiburahman Afghan for having plan of placing Kuchis to grab lands in the Khak-i-Jabar district…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Dozens of protestors took to the streets on Sunday in western Herat province and hurled stones at the Iranian consulate to protest against Iran for not surrendering dead bodies of their relatives, alleged killed in the neighbouring…
NANGARHAR (PAN): University students again staged a peaceful protest against the death penalty awarded to ex-Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier Abdul Saboor in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday. Abdul Saboor was allegedly involved in shooting dead five French soldiers and…
KABUL): Members of the minority Sikh community rallied against residents of the Qalacha neighbourhood of Kabul for opposing the cremation of their relatives’ bodies. Dozens of protestors in Pashtunistan Ward also accused the Afghan police and army of preventing them…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Hundred of residents of southern Kandahar provinces rallied against Imrankhan’s remarks about the war in Afghanistan On October 10, the Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief declared the ongoing fighting in Afghanistan Jihad (holy war) “against foreign occupation”. Khan…
KABUL/BAMYAN (PAN): Thousands of people staged peaceful demonstrations on Thursday to protest the blasphemous movie mocking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in central Kabul and Bamyan provinces. Produced by American-Israeli real estate investor Sam Basil, the movie was recently released by the…
TIRINKOT (PAN. The peaceful protest was ended at 3pm in Trinikot, the provincial capital. But the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) media office rejected the allegation as baseless. “We have no report of Quran burning or any mishandling of religious…
