The police chief for central Uruzgan province on Saturday said 1,100 ‘ghost police personnel’ have been ousted from job as part of a screening campaign. Brig. Gen. Wali Jan Sarhadi told a press conference here thousands of afghanis…
Local officials on Tuesday accused police of preventing the dispatch of medicine to district health centers in central Uruzgan province. But the provincial police chief rejected the allegation. Official claimed said no health worker had links with any…
The Afghan National Army (ANA) 205th Atal Military Corps commander in the north, Gen. Dawood Shah Wafadar,has asked people to help security forces crush insurgents. Gen. Wafadar made the remarks at a gathering in ANA’s4th ground brigade office…
Twenty Taliban militants have been killed and ten others wounded during an ongoing operation in the capital of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Sunday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Wali Jan Sarhadi said the rebels suffered casualties…
The attorney’s office has detained the education director of central Uruzgan province over a dispute with a revenue official, a source said on Tuesday. A local official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
At least 25 Taliban militants have been killed and several others wounded during an ongoing clash in central Uruzgan province, the Afghan military said on Monday. The Afghan National Army’s 205th Atal military corps said in a statement…
A police officer was killed and two other security personnel were wounded in an explosion in central Uruzgan province on Tuesday, an official said. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the bomb blast took…
Thirty Taliban rebels including a notorious commander have been killed as a result of air and ground operation in central Uruzgan province, the military said on Saturday. According to a statement from the 205th Atal Military Corps, the…
A police commander ‘defected’ to Taliban militants along with his 13 subordinates in a troubled district of central Uruzgan province on Wednesday. The police chief for Chora district, Aka, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the 3rd police battalion…
Dozens of schools have been shut over the past two months due to recent clashes in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Monday. The 40 schools remained closed due to continued clashes between insurgents and security forces…
Taliban militants have surrounded the Chora district centre in central Uruzgan province and a fierce clash is ongoing, officials said on Saturday. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants attacked the district’s building…
Hundreds of residents of this capital city of central Uruzgan province on Thursday staged a protest demonstration to ask the government to launch an operation against militants besieging the city. The insurgents have laid siege to Tirinkot over…
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a tribal elder in central Uruzgan province, an official said Monday. A local security official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Chori district on Sunday…
The Presidential Palace on Sunday announced allocating 100 million afghanis for families displaced by escalating insecurity in Kunduz and Uruzgan provinces. A statement from the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) said the 100 million afghanis fund was…
Local security officials say some circles wanted the central Uruzgan province to fall into insurgents’ hands for their own interests. Gen. Daud Shah Wafadar, 205th Attal Military Corps commander in the south, alleged this during a meeting with…
Recent clashes between security forces and armed militants have displaced thousands of families in the capital of central Uruzgan province, local officials say. They said the affected families numbering more than 5000 have moved to deserts and other…
KABUL,or upper house of parliament, on Tuesday condemned US airstrikes on a police post in central Uruzgan province, calling for holding accountable the military personnel involved in the incident. Two days back, eight Afghan National Police (ANP) officials were killed…
The Provincial Council (PC) chief on Wednesday warned the capital of central Uruzgan province would fall into Taliban’s hands if Special Forces were not immediately dispatched. Abdul Karim Khademzai issued the warning when hundreds of Taliban were attacking…
Suspected militants kidnapped five passengers from vehicles on a highway in central Uruzgan province, officials said on Monday. One of the passengers was released after the five were snatched from vehicles on the road between Chora and Gizab…
Two children were among four civilians killed and three others wounded in two separate incidents of violence in northern Balkh and central Uruzgan provinces on Saturday, officials said. Two civilians were killed on Saturday when an unknown individual…
Construction work on a recreational park for women was launched in the central province of Uruzgan on Sunday. Governor Mohammad Nazir Kharotai, who inaugurated the construction work, said the recreational park would be constructed in three months at…
Elder brother of a slain journalist and Pajhwok Afghan News correspondent, Ahmad Omaid Khapalwak, says his brother’s killing took away all happiness from his life. Khapalwak, who served as Pajhwok Afghan News reporter in central Uruzgan province, was…
Two people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed and as many wounded when the roofs of two shops collapsed in the provincial capital’s bazaar in central Uruzgan province on Saturday. The incident that took place in the Tirinkot…
Health and security officials on Wednesday said seven people have been injured in celebratory firing after the sighting of Eidul Fitr moon in central Uruzgan province. An official at the provincial civil hospital told Pajhwok Afghan News they…
