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Gandhara
March 19, 2018
ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- Religious scholars have joined government officials in a remote eastern province to convince the insurgents to allow children in the regions they control to be vaccinated against the crippling infectious disease polio. The ulema, or Islamic clerics, have approached the Taliban,Ãâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 17, 2018
(MENAFN - Daily Outlook Afghanistan) ASADABAD - Local security officials on Thursday said Pakistani forces once again fired at least 83 mortars into different areas of eastern Kunar province. Police spokesman, Farid Dehqan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the mortars fired from across the Durand LineÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
March 8, 2018
Relations between Washington and Islamabad have become increasingly strained over the issue and the United States this year suspended about $2 billion in assistance to Pakistan. (Additional reporting by Rohullah Anwari in ASADABAD and James Mackenzie and Hamid Shalizi in KABUL; Editing byÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 5, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Four Taliban militants were killed and three other wounded during a clash with security forces in Marwara district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday. Deputy police chief Lt. Col. Mohammad Zaman Aiar told Pajhwok AfghanÃâà...
Iran Human Rights Monitor (blog)
February 20, 2018
He said that during the four-hour visit, Hamedan's Head of Prisons, presented a report on the situation of the detainees of recent events (protests), saying that about 40 people who were residents of Hamedan, Nahavand, Asadabad and Tuyserkan were detained. Malayer's representative added that duringÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
February 19, 2018
The International Security Assistance Force is led by U.S. forces helping the Afghan government to develop the area while training Afghan security forces to provide their own security, including the Afghan National Police, the Afghan Border Police and the Afghan National Army. Asadabad is the capital cityÃâà...
Xinhua
February 19, 2018
19, 2018. At least three Islamic State (IS) fighters have been killed and five others injured during a cleanup operation by security forces in Sarkanay district of Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, district police chief Mohammad Shuaib said Tuesday. (Xinhua/Emran Waak). ASADABAD, Afghanistan, Feb.
East Bay Times
February 15, 2018
After a relationship spanning more than five years, Union City and Asadabad, Afghanistan, are officially sister cities. During the Jan. 23 Union City City Council meeting, officials held a “twinning ceremony” by signing a sister city agreement with Asadabad's mayor, Mohammad Rahim. Asadabad, the capitalÃâà...
Gulf Times
February 9, 2018
A total of 500 families in Kunar have already received the aid: 185 families in Asadabad, 175 families in Asmar, and 140 families in Shaigal. This week, the remaining 1,000 handovers will continue in Baghlan and Daykundi provinces. Each winterisation package consists of three blankets and winter clothesÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 3, 2018
A total of 500 families in Kunar have already received the aid, as follows: Asadabad (185 families), Asmar (175 families), and Shaigal (140 families). This week, the remaining 1000 handovers will continue in Baghlan and Daykundi provinces. Each winterization package consists of three blankets and winterÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 1, 2018
and security threats in some districts of Kunar continued to pose a major challenge to eliminating the deadly virus. He said poliovirus was found in sewers passing through Asadabad. “The surface water falls in the main river of Kunar and many households use that water.” Dr Ishaq added they were trying toÃâà...
Democracy Now!
February 1, 2018
There was a family traveling in a pickup truck from Asadabad, which is the provincial capital of Kunar province. Kunar province is to east of Kabul. That's where Lone Survivor was shot, you know, for audiences who might be aware of that, or Restrepo, as well, the documentary by Sebastian Junger and TimÃâà...
The Intercept
January 27, 2018
Asadabad, the sylvan capital of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, has a population of more than 30,000 but the feel of a village. Little happens there without being noticed. Were you out surveying the bazaar on September 7, 2013, you might have seen eight men, three women, and four young childrenÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 20, 2017
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Residents and officials of eastern Kunar province say 95 percent of Asadabad, the provincial capital, has been constructed in violation of the master plan, creating problems for the people and the government. The master plan for Asadabad was prepared in 1986 by the governmentÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
November 15, 2017
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Displaced by Pakistani shelling in eastern Kunar province, 221 families have been assisted with food and other relief supplies, the provincial governor says. The Kunar governor's spokesman, Waheedullah Kalimzai, while distributing the aid, said over the past 24 hours PakistaniÃâà...
New York Times
August 23, 2017
attack a protest. 80 killed. ISIS militants attack. a Shiite mosque. 27 killed. Unknown militants attack. near the German embassy. 150 killed. Other cities. ASADABAD. Taliban militants attack near the. provincial government compound. 14 killed. MAZAR-I-SHARIF. Taliban militants attack. army headquarters.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Pakistani forces have fired 110 artillery shells in the Shaltan and Dangam districts of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. Police spokesman Farid Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News the artillery shells attacks began on Wednesday and continued until now. He saidÃâà...
