KABUL stadium was inaugurated in central Maidan Wardak province on Saturday, an official said. Spread over half a dozen acres of land, the complex cost $232,000 provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the governor’s spokesman said.…
KABUL has pledged to reconstruct buildings and boundary walls for 56 schools in central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Thursday. Additionally, the ministry would establish two agricultural high schools for training skilled technicians and workers in Nirkh and…
KABUL): Six policemen were killed in insurgency-linked violence in central Maidan Wardak and northern Badakhshan provinces, an official and a witness said on Tuesday. In Badakhshan, Taliban fighters attacked police posts in Ghani and Pul-i-Sarbala areas of the Warduj district…
KABUL): An insurgent commander was killed and one his associates wounded when a roadside bomb they were planting went off prematurely in the central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Monday. The incident took place on the outskirts of…
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): A schoolteacher was shot to death by unidentified gunmen in the Seydabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, an official said. Identified as Asadullah, the teacher was standing at the gate of Khalid Bin Walid School when…
KABUL): Two vehicles worth $100,000 were on Tuesday delivered to the municipality department in central Maidan Wardak province, where three new projects, including a hospital, would be launched soon, an official said. The two vehicles -- a GCB loader and…
KABUL (PAN): Afghan and ISAF military leaders on Sunday constituted a 14-member delegation to investigate claims of US special forces’ involvement in torturing and killing civilians in central Maidan Wardak province. The decision came at a meeting between the Afghan…
KABUL): More than 2,000 tribal elders and influential figures on Tuesday threw their weight behind President Karzai's decision on giving US Special Forces two weeks to leave central Maidan Wardak province. Participants of a huge gathering in Maidan Shahr, the…
KABUL): The US military on Monday acknowledged that allegations of misconduct against its special forces in the central province of Maidan Wardak were a serious issue that it intended to take up with Afghan government officials. “US Forces Afghanistan is…
KABUL in the Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, an official said. The attack took place around 11am, a resident of Kakakhel village told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. As a result, Roshan customers are…
KABUL): Angry residents, who blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway in central Maidan Wardak province to protest the alleged killing of a university student by foreign troops, lifted the blockade after talks with an official delegation on Saturday. The protest in Maidan…
KABUL (PAN): Seven civilians and four armed rebels were killed during a predawn operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, officials said. The governor's office said the raid was carried out by Afghan and foreign…
MAIDAN SHAHAR (PAN): A massive suicide bombing jolted the capital of central Maidan Wardak province on Friday morning, killing at least three people and wounding many others, an official said. As usual, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in…
KABUL military operation in the central province of Maidan Wardak, an official said on Saturday. Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the Maidan Wardak governor, said five other militants insurgents -- Habibur Rahman, Syed Rahman, Irfan, Nasim and Salahuddin -- were…
KABUL) operative was killed when the landmine he was defusing went off prematurely in the central province of Maidan Wardak, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place in the Sur Pul area on the outskirts of Maidan Shahr,…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Work on four development projects was launched in central Maidan Wardak province on Thursday, an senior official said. The projects include construction of buildings for a polyclinic, a central statistics department, provincial secretariat and a recreational park,…
KABUL): Two militants were killed when a bomb they were planting on a road went off in the central province of Maidan Wardak on Monday, an official said. The explosion occurred at 11:00pm. The militants were planting the roadside bomb…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN airstrike in the Narkh district of central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Monday. The incident happened in the Shahabuddin area late on Sunday night, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News. Shahidullah Shahid said bodies…
KABUL, said the alliance on Monday. According to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement two of their helicopters crashed in eastern Afghanistan on the same day, but there were no causalities in one of the mishap. However, ISAF did…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN, hundreds of protestors on Saturday took to the streets in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said. The demonstration started at about 8 am in the Shash Qala village of the Syedabad district, alleging troops on…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): One militant was killed and 15 others detained during a string of operations in various provinces over the past 24 hours, an official said on Sunday. The 15 suspects were detained by Afghan and International Security Assistance…
KABUL at the Bagram Airbase entered a fifth day on Saturday, officials said. Four demonstrators were killed and 56 injured after they attacked the United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office in northern Kunduz province. Hundreds of people rallied…
