QALAT (PAN, were killed when a roadside bomb ripped through a tractor-trolley in the Sewri district of southern Zabul early on Monday, police said. Another four people, including two women and as many minor girls, sustained injuries in the blast…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN head Mohammad Daud Gulzar said on Monday he had resigned due to the provincial administration’s meddling in his affairs. He told Pajhwok Afghan News some provincial officials were creating hurdles to his efforts at reconciliation. As…
QALAT (PAN): A senior information and culture official on Monday warned around 18 ancient sites, mostly shrines of saints, were on the verge of irreparable loss and destruction in southern Zabul province. Information and Culture Director Abdul Muqim Afghan told…
QALAT (PAN staff, say nurses are working instead of doctors at hospitals in three districts. The 21 healthcare centres operational across the province could not meet people’s needs due to a shortage of skilled doctors, Public Health director, Dr.…
QALAT (PAN official said on Friday. Education Director Rahimullah Lodin told Pajhwok Afghan News in Qalat, the provincial capital, that of the total 238 schools, 105 were operational. Nearly 40,000 pupils, including 6,000 girls, were studying in there, he said.…
QALAT (PAN militants, including a militant commander, had joined the peace process in southern Zabul province on Thursday. Zabul reconciliation council chief Muhammad Daud Gulzar told Pajhwok Afghan News that three militant abandoned militancy and embraced peace. The militant commander…
QALAT (PAN): The first-ever private radio station, known as Tarang, went on the air in southern Zabul province on Thursday, officials said. The FM radio started test transmissions to meet local demand for independent programmes, said Meshrano Jirga Chief Complaints…
QALAT (PAN): The police chief on Thursday claimed there were some officials in provincial civil departments having sympathies with the rebels in southern Zabul province. Brig. Gen. Fazal Ahmad Sherzad told a news conference in Qalat, the provincial capital, the…
QALAT/PUL-I-ALAM (PAN institute for high school graduates was inaugurated in southern Zabul province, while the foundation stone of a hostel and a dining hall in another agriculture high school in central Logar was laid on Wednesday, officials said. Najeebullah, an…
QALAT (PAN said they have joined the movement. The Interior Ministry (MoI) in a statement said the policemen went missing after their check post come under Taliban attack on Saturday night. It was unclear whether the policemen managed to flee…
QALAT (PAN): A number of schoolteachers and students on Thursday warned of closing schools in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, if the authorities did not provide teachers land plots. Hundreds of students and their teachers gathered at…
QALAT (PAN): Five guards of a private security company were killed on Monday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province, an official said. The bombing occurred in the afternoon, said Khadi Khan,…
QALAT (PAN fighters were killed and three policemen injured in two separate incidents in the southern province of Zabul, officials said on Friday. The militants were killed during a joint operation by police and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)…
QALAT (PAN): A 12-year-old girl on Thursday complained she had been sent to jail after being raped by her neighbour in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province. But prosecutors said that the girl and her two brothers were taken…
QALAT (PAN): Ten people, including a police officer, were arrested on robbery charges in two separate operations in southern Zabul province, an official said on Sunday. An eight-member group, accused of stealing oil from three tankers of foreign troops, was…
