Unknown gunmen shot dead a reporter for the state-run Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) in southern Zabul province on Sunday evening, police said. Zabul police chief Gen. Mirwais Noorzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the RTA reporter for southern Kandahar…
One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in a suicide bombing in southern Zabul province on Saturday, local officials said. Deputy police chiefGhulam Jilani Farahi, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the explosion took place in Qalat,…
Zabul GovernorBismillah Afghanmal escaped unhurt in a Taliban attack in the Shah Joi district of the southern province on Sunday morning. His spokesman, Gul Islam Siyal, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the governor was traveling along with a…
Nearly a dozen would-be suicide bombers were among at least 24 militants killed in an explosion in southern Zabul province on Monday, officials said. Zabul deputy police chief Col. Ghulam Jilani Farahi told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast…
HERAT/QALAT (Pajhwok) At least 32 militants have been killed and scores of others wounded during separate security operations in southern Zabul and western Herat provinces, officials said on Thursday. Zabul deputy police chief, Ghulam Jilani Farahi, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
A key Al Qaeda commander has been killed in a US drone strike in the Shajoy district of southern Zabul province, the Afghan Special Forces Unit said on Tuesday. The slain regional Al Qaeda commander, Mullah Mohammad Ali,…
Ittihad cricket club won a twenty20 cricket tournament involving 20 teams from various districts and the capital of southern Zabul province, an official said on Saturday. The tournament named “Youth Unity” was played in Qalat City, the provincial…
Three civilians were killed and as many other people injured as a result of insurgent attack in southern Zabul province, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday afternoon when people gathered to play games…
The new governor of southern Zabul province on Tuesday identified fighting administrative corruption, land-grabbing and lawlessness as his top priority. Appointed by President Ashraf Ghani as the governor of Zabul, Bismillah Afghanmal took charge at a gathering attended…
Five security personnel were killed in an overnight roadside bombing in southern Zabul province, an official said on Tuesday. The explosion occurred on the Arghandab-Qalat highway on Monday night, Arghandab district chief Mullah Zarif told Pajhwok Afghan…
Two deminers have been injured in a militant attack in southern Zabul province, an official said on Thursday. The deminers came under attack on their way from Qalat to Shinkai district in Katili Manda area on Wednesday afternoon,…
A number of women in southern Zabul province accuse the provincial Women’s Affairs Department of widespread corruption in its training programmes, but the department head rejects the allegation. Attending a training workshop at the women’s affairs department, a…
Authorities in southern Zabul province have launched an investigation into the alleged killing of a married woman due to domestic violence in Shinkai district. Brother of the slain woman, Asadullah, said his sister had been married for two…
Several security personnel and Taliban fighters suffered casualties during clashes and bomb blasts in southern Zabul province, officials said on Friday. Seven national and local police personnel were injured when their vehicle overturned after being hit by a…
Heritage sites in southern Zabul province wear a rundown look and cry for urgent attention from the government, residents say. Historical landmarks like Shekh Mati Baba shrine, Ghashi Robat, Hassan Mati mausoleum structures, Gurmaw and Shah Mardan historical…
The spy agency on Thursday said 10 civilians who were kidnapped last month on a highway in southern Zabul province had been released from their captors. A statement from the National Directorate of Security (NDS)’s media office in…
The residents of Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, and Shahr-i-Safa district on Wednesday demanded the government reconstruct bridges and culverts which have been blown up by Taliban-Kandahar highway. They said the insurgents had blown up a…
KABUL militants and two policemen were killed during a clash near the provincial capital of southern Zabul province on Saturday, an official said. The clash broke out on Saturday morning when a group of insurgents attacked workers of a road…
Hundreds of Taliban militants were either killed or wounded during last month’s clashes between rival factions in southern Zabul province, officials and Taliban sources said on Saturday. The clashes between supporters of Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour…
Local security officials on Wednesday said passengers kidnapped by gunmen in southern Zabul province were in good health and they were trying to release them. Gunmen seized as many as 30 passengers from vehicles in Noorak area on…
Nine abducted passengers have been released and effors underway to relese the rest from their kidnappers in southern Zabul province, the Ministry of Interior said on Sunday, a day after gunmen took hostage 30 people from vehicles near the…
Heavy clashes between different factions of the Talibanare underway in southern Zabul province, officials said on Wednesday. Gul Islam Sial, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the fighting was ongoing between the Taliban and Islamic State (IS)…
The bodies of civilians, including four women, who were beheaded by Islamic State militants in southern Zabul province, are being shifted to the provincial capital of southern Ghazni province, officials said on Monday. Mohmand Nasratyar, Zabul’s Arghandad district…
Local officials on Sunday said 50 militants were killed and several others wounded during a clash between Taliban and Islamic State (IS) or Daesh fighters in southern Zabul province. Elsewhere, another 12 Daesh members were killed during an…
