Nearly 500 people received licences after being trained as professional drivers in southern Zabul province during the first six months of this solar year, an official said on Sunday, attributing decreased traffic accidents to the training course. Traffic…
QALAT (Pajhwok) An explosives-laden vehicle went off before reaching its target in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, on Sunday. Ahmad, an eyewitness, told Pajhwok Afghan News he saw one person wounded and the area cordoned off by security…
A newly-constructed building for the Quick Reaction Force has been inaugurated in southern Zabul province. Governor Ashraf Nasiri told Pajhwok Afghan News the building had been constructed in two years at a cost of $5.5 million provided by…
Rejecting the Taliban claim of capturing the Nawbahar district of southern Zabul province, a top security official on Friday said a full-blown offensive was underway to uproot rebels from the area. Earlier, the rebels said the district had…
Five people were killed and 24 others wounded in a road accident on the Kabul director said. Dr. Lal Muhammad Tokhi told Pajhwok Afghan News the head-on collision between two passenger coaches occurred at around 11:00 am. Three…
One woman was killed and four others were injured in a rocket attack by Taliban militants in southern Zabul province, an official said Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday night when a rocket fired by the militants…
Four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members, including their commander, have been killed mysteriously in Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province, an official said Thursday. The overnight incident took place at a security post in Khanzo area of the…
Three women and as many policemen were among a dozen people injured when a bomb fixed to an Afghan Local Police (ALP) vehicle went off at a crowded marketplace in southern Zabul province, an official said on Wednesday.…
A joint Afghan-ISAF force detected and precisely destroyed an explosives-laden car ready for a suicide attack in the capital of southern Zabul province on Thursday, police said. The Corolla car was found in the Walikhel area of Shahr-i-Safa…
An Afghan army soldier and a child were killed and a dozen others, including 10 soldiers, wounded on Thursday when a bomb blast rocked the capital of southern Zabul province, officials said. The explosion in Qalat apparently targeted…
Police detained two would-be suicide bombers riding in an explosives-laden vehicle in southern Zabul province, thwarting a possible terrorist attack, an official said on Wednesday. Another two persons in the car were shot dead in Shahjoi district of…
QALAT (PAN’s southwestern Balochistan province, an official said on Wednesday. Deputy Governor Mohammad Jan Rassoulyar told Pajhwok Afghan News Asadullah Khakyar was gunned down in the Kachlagh area of Balochistan on Tuesday evening. He slammed the killing of Khakyar, also…
Three suicide bombers were shot dead and a fourth blew himself up during a botched attack on a district intelligence office in southwestern Nimroz province on Tuesday, an official said. One of the attackers blew himself up near…
QALAT (PAN): The Shahr-i-Safa district chief has been detained and referred to the attorney’s office weeks after he roughed up a judge, an official said on Monday. Provincial appellate court chief, Abdul Ghaffar Afzali, told Pajhwok Afghan News the district…
QALAT (PAN’s southwestern Balochistan province, an official said on Monday. Col. Ghulam Jilani Farahi, the deputy police chief for southern Zabul province, identified the militant leader as Mullah Abdul Malik -- alias Toryalai. He told Pajhwok Afghan News unidentified gunmen…
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…
KALAT CITY (PAN): Four civilians, including three children, were killed in two different bomb blasts in southern Kandahar and Zabul provinces on Monday, official said. Zabul Deputy Governor Mohammad Jan Rassoulyar told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion took place at…
QALAT (PAN): Eight civilians were killed a roadside bomb struck their vehicle near the capital of the southern Zabul province on Friday morning, officials said. Deputy Governor Mohammad Jan Rassoulyar told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion occurred near Qalat at…
GHZANI CITY (PAN): The urban prosecutor for southern Zabul province was killed by unidentified gunmen in the Maqur district of southern Ghazni province, officials said on Tuesday. A statement from the governor’s office said Ismail, who had been abducted by…
QALAT (PAN): Nine people have been killed and a dozen others wounded in a bomb explosion in the Shah Joi district of southern Zabul province, officials said on Monday. Six civilians and three Afghan Local Police (ALP) members were killed…
QALAT (PAN have seized a dozen policemen in the Shah Joi district of southern Zabul province, officials and militants said on Thursday. "Soon after fast was broken on Wednesday evening, the insurgents captured 12 police personnel," a security official told…
QALAT (PAN): One policeman was killed and the crime branch chief for southern Zabul province injured along with two others in an explosion, an official said on Sunday. The blast took place on Saturday evening in Qalat, the provincial capital,…
KABUL): A former district chief was gunned down in what appeared to be a targeted killing in southern Zabul province, while two civilians were killed when insurgents attacked Afghan Local Police (ALP) members in Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. Taliban…
QALAT (PAN): Six suicide bombers were killed after they stormed the provincial council office in southern Zabul province on Monday, leaving 20 people, including two public representatives injured, officials said. The coordinated attack began around 11am when a suicide bomber…
