TIRINKOT (PAN): Nearly a dozen students were injured as a result of a seminary fire in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province, on Sunday. Dr Yad Wali of the Uruzgan Civil Hospital confirmed receiving 11 injured students from the…
TARINKOT (PAN): On its completion, a sprawling complex was formally handed over to public order police in central Uruzgan province on Monday, an official said. Col. Sadat Khan, the deputy police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the compound was built…
TARINKOT (PAN): A landmine explosion has left four children dead in the Dehrawood district in central Uruzgan province, an official said on Monday. The governor's spokesman, Abdullah Himat, told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion took place last evening, killing four…
TIRINKOT (PAN) withdrew from central Uruzgan province on Wednesday, the governor’s house said. The withdrawing troops transferred their base in Tirinkot to Afghan forces at a ceremony, where Governor Amir Mohammad Akhund Zada, other Afghan officials and NATO forces representatives…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
TARINKOT (PAN) said on Sunday at least 26,000 individuals have got voter registration cards in central Uruzgan province. Abdul Hamid Sharifi, provincial IEC head, told Pajhwok Afghan News 23,800 male and 2,200 female had received their voter registration cards. “The…
HERAT CITY (PAN and Washington. At a meeting with Herat Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, the ambassador said the pact was vital for continued cooperation between the allies. President Hamid Karzai should ink the agreement as soon as possible, he stressed.…
KABUL conflict will end by Christmas with the pullout of most of its 1500 soldiers from the war-torn country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. "Australia's longest war is ending not with victory, not with defeat, but with, we hope, an…
TIRINKOT (PAN) in Uruzgan was formally closed on Monday. Local authorities acknowledged the PRT role in Uruzgan’s development and reconstruction, particularly in building roads, bridges, schools and health clinics. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Defence Minister David Johnston, Opposition Leader…
KABUL insurgents, including their two shadow district chiefs, were killed during a gun-battle with security forces in the Gizab district of central Uruzgan province, an official said. The clash broke out two days ago when armed rebels stormed police check-posts…
KABUL): Eight security personnel and five insurgents have been killed in separate incidents of violence in different parts of the country, officials said on Tuesday. One policeman was killed and another wounded as a result of a roadside bombing on…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Twenty people were killed and 15 others, including three children, injured during separate incidents of violence in central Uruzgan province, officials said on Friday. Armed insurgents launched attacks on police posts in Oshi, Yakhdan and Sakhar areas of…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
TRINKOT (PAN): The passport department head for central Uruzgan province was killed in a bomb attack early Tuesday morning, an official said. Nasrullah was killed when the bomb exploded in front of his residence in Tirinkot, the provincial capital, 1st…
TARINKORT (PAN): A suicide bomber was shot dead on Sunday before he could reach his target in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province, an official said. The bomber in a police uniform planned to target Kabul Bank’s branch in…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Hundreds of enraged protestors on Sunday forcibly closed a voter registration centre in the Gizab district of central Uruzgan province. Up to 600 demonstrators took to the streets in the district at 9am, chanting full-throated slogans against the…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Suspected rebels shot dead two tribal elders in Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province, local authorities said on Saturday. Malik Abdul Hai and Haji Mohammad Sharif were gunned down in Asheri village late on Friday, when they…
TIRINKOT (PAN): A dozen people, including security personnel, were killed during a suicide attack on a reserve police guest house in central Uruzgan province on Friday, officials and witnesses said. The bomber struck at about 1.00pm when a large number…
SHARANA/TIRINKOT (PAN): Two schoolchildren were among six civilians killed by roadside bombs in central Uruzgan and southeastern Paktika provinces, officials said on Thursday. The schoolchildren were on their way home on Thursday noon when a Taliban-planted roadside bomb went off…
TIRINKOT/JALALABAD (PAN has begun in the central province of Uruzgan, the governor’s office said on Monday. Aimed to reduce mother and child mortality rates, the training course is being attended by 76 midwives and nurses, according to a statement from…
TIRINKOT/KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Eleven civilians and six policemen have been killed in separate roadside bombings in central Uruzgan and southern Kandahar provinces, officials said on Tuesday. The civilians were killed in a roadside explosion in the Khakrez district of Kandahar…
TIRINKOT/KABUL): Six Afghan National Army (ANA) troops and 15 insurgents were killed during separate insurgency-related incidents over the past 24 hours, officials said. Four insurgents were killed on Friday during an Afghan forces’ operation in the Zirok district of southeastern…
KABUL): Roadside bomb attacks have killed eight Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and four civilians in different provinces, officials said on Wednesday. Seven soldiers were killed and six others wounded in two roadside bomb explosions in southern Kandahar and northwestern…
TIRINKOT (PAN’s atrocities. Dozens of tribal elders, spiritual leaders and youth, coming all the way from Kotwal, Dejawz and Shah Mansoor areas participated in an anti-Taliban gathering held in Tirinkot, the provincial capital. They lost their family members and loved…
