MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Five family members of a Taliban commander were killed in an airstrike in Nijrab district of central Kapisa province last night, an official said on Friday. The airstrike was called in after the Taliban commander, Maulvi...
GHAZNI/MAHMOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Local officials on Saturday at least 32 Taliban militants have been killed during clashes with Afghan forces in southern Ghazni and central Kapisa provinces. Ghazni governor’s spokesman, Mohammad Arif Noori, told...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): The Taliban have warned residents of Tagab district of central Kapisa province against allowing their women to visit the district bazaar, it is learnt. Several residents of the district told Pajhwok Afghan News on Friday that...
MAHMOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Police forces have seized a car full of explosives in the capital of central Kapisa province, an official said Tuesday. Mohammad Ayub Yousufzai, provincial police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Corolla model car was...
MAHMUD RAQI (Pajhwok): Two police personnel and as many civilians were killed in a roadside bombing in Nijrab district of central Kapisa province on Thursday. Kapisa police chief Mohammad Raziq Yaqobi told Pajhwok Afghan News the landmine ripped...
MAHMUD RAQI (Pajhwok): Nearly a dozen Taliban insurgents were killed during a clash with Afghan Local Police (ALP) forces in central Kapisa province on Tuesday.
MEHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): A Taliban commander was killed during infighting in the Kohband district of central Kapisa province on Sunday. Kapisa police spokesman Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place on Sunday morning...
MAHMOD RAQI (Pajhwok): At least three people have been killed and six others injured in separate traffic accidents in central Panjsher and Kapisa provinces, officials said Thursday. Panjsher deputy police chief, Col. Najmuddin told Pajhwok Afghan...
MAHMOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Twenty suspected gunmen, travelling from the Sarobi district of Kabul to northern Afghanistan , have been arrested in central Kapisa province. Police spokesman Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai told Pajhwok Afghan News the men were...
MEHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): The governor on Tuesday said the Taliban received 90 percent of weapons and ammunition from their sources in police in central Kapisa province, but the police chief rejected the figures. Governor Asadullah Hashimi told a...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Security officials on Monday said 88 Taliban militants have been killed and scores of others wounded during three months of an ongoing operation in central Kapisa province. Kapisa police chief Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai told...
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Taliban ’s district chief was injured along with two of his accomplices while a fourth rebel killed was during a clash with security forces in western Herat province, officials said on Sunday. Separately, one insurgent was...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Residents of Alasai district in central Kapisa province have constructed a 100-kilometer long road at their own expense and resources, an official said on Sunday. Alasai district chief, Ghulam Naqashband Sapai, said the road...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): The government has retaken control of some important mineral deposits in the Ala Sai district of central Kapisa province after 13 years, local officials say. Ghulam Naqshbandi Sapi, the district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Four volleyballers have been killed and a fifth wounded after a verbal dispute turned violent in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Mohammad Ayub Yousafzai confirmed to...
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Three Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel have been killed in a Taliban attack in the Najrab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Saturday. “The Taliban attack on ALP post happened midnight and continued...
JALALABAD/MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): Sixteen criminals have been arrested and three Taliban militants killed in eastern Nangarhar and central Kapisa provinces, officials said on Wednesday. Kapisa police spokesman Naqibullah Amini told Pajhwok Afghan...
MAHMUD RAQI (Pajhwok): Farmers say they are satisfied with the yield and price of prune dried fruit this year in Tagab district of central Kapisa province. The inhabitants say the dried fruit price had been low last year, forcing many people to...