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Taliban kill 5 locals rising up against them

PAKTYA - Five members of a public uprising group were killed by Taliban militants in the Ander district of Ghazni province, an official said on Wednesday.

24 Jul 2012

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking celebrated

BALKH - The United Nations Office of Drug and Crime (UNODC) and Balkh provincial counter-narcotics department marked 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in a large gathering in Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday.

24 Jul 2012

HELMAND: International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking celebrated

HELMAND - The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was celebrated in Lashkar Gah of Helmand province on Tuesday.

24 Jul 2012

City cleaning campaign by local volunteers

KHOST - Hundreds of people, including government officials, students and general masses participated yesterday in a traditional campaign called hasher, a voluntary campaign to clean streets and parks in Khost province.

24 Jul 2012

Ghazni: Women and children suffer due to lack of female doctors in Ghazni

GHAZNI - Sick women and children continue to face medical crisis due to shortage of female doctors in Ghazni province, forcing authorities to refer patients to hospitals in the city, the local Roz News Agency reported.

24 Jul 2012

Paktya: Large cache of weapons and drugs seized

PAKTYA - Hundreds of kilograms of drugs and weapons were seized by Afghan security forces during an operation in Paktya province, local officials said on Sunday.

24 Jul 2012

World Bank signs US$ 125 million grant agreement to improve Afghanistan’s rural roads

KABUL - Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance and the World Bank (WB) signed yesterday for a US$ 125 million grant from the WB’s International Development Association (IDA) to finance improvement and maintenance of rural roads and bridges so as to enable Afghanistan’s rural communiti

23 Jul 2012

Security responsibility of Kandahar districts handed over to Afghan forces

KANDAHAR - The security responsibility of three districts of Kandahar Province – Dand, Daman and Arghandab – and Kandahar City were handed over from international forces to Afghan forces last week.

22 Jul 2012

KANDAHAR: Bus service to start to Quetta in Pakistan

KANDAHAR - The head of Kandahar Transport Department, Najibullah Ahmadi, told local media that together with Kandahar Governor's office, they are working to start bus service between Kandahar and Quetta city of Pakistan soon.

22 Jul 2012

HELMAND: Six polio cases detected

KABUL - The representative of World Health Organization in Helmand, Doctor Mohammad Omar Wardak, said that six polio cases have been detected in Helmand province in the first half of this year.

22 Jul 2012

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