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Global Village space (blog)
April 17, 2018
According to the Governor of Afghanistan's Khost Province, a soldier and the bodies of the five martyred personnel were handed over to Pakistan. Amid the ... Simultaneously, on many occasions, the Afghan government, and US officials have also blamed Pakistan militant incursions from Pakistani soil intoÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 17, 2018
“This area was important because the Taliban used it as a supply route and the Taliban had been using it for their movements between Afghanistan and Pakistan and were carrying out operations from this area to other provinces. This has great significance for the Afghan government. Last night we carriedÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 16, 2018
This comes after delegations from both sides met on Monday to discuss the recent incidents – Sunday's attack by Pakistan in Khost province, and Monday's clashes in Paktia province. ... “We hope that the Afghan government is not deceived for the 15th, 20th, 100th time by Pakistan,” said MP Abdullah Mohammadi.
MENAFN.COM
April 16, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) ASADABAD/ KHOST (Pajhwok): At least three Pakistani security personnel were killed and four others captured alive during ... The attack was carried out from Khost province on a border post in Laka Tika area of Lower Kurram Agency, according to officials in the politicalÃâà...
Yahoo News UK
April 16, 2018
A government statement said Saturday that five members of a family returned to western Rakhine state from the border area. The statement ... Abdul Hanan, the acting provincial police chief in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, said the fighting broke out after Pakistani forces crossed into Afghanistan.
Arab News
April 16, 2018
Abdul Hanan, the acting provincial police chief in the eastern Khost province, says the fighting broke out early Sunday and is still underway. He was not ... province. The Taliban stormed a government compound in another part of Ghazni late Thursday, killing 15 people, including three senior local officials.
Voice of America
April 16, 2018
Earlier, a regional Afghan police chief told VOA the clashes broke out along the Zazi Maidan border district in southeastern province of Khost adjacent to ... The Afghan government earlier this month accused Pakistan of conducting airstrikes and firing hundreds of shells in their eastern border province ofÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
April 13, 2018
(MENAFN - Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KABUL - President Ashraf Ghani has promised to ban the use of Pakistani currency in government offices, asking the countrymen ... The president made these remarks while addressing a gathering in southeastern Khost province yesterday the day two of his visit here.
MENAFN.COM
April 13, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has promised to ban the use of Pakistani currency in government offices, asking the ... The president made these remarks while addressing a gathering in southeastern Khost province yesterday the day two of his visit here.
ReliefWeb
April 13, 2018
The Afghan government with the assistance of UN and other humanitarian agencies provided shelter and other basic facilities to the tribal people. Camps were set up for them in Afghanistan's Khost province. The FDMA official said a total of 6,000 families had returned from Afghanistan in two phases andÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 8, 2018
Meanwhile residents and civil activists in Kunar and Nangarhar province also announced their support for Helmand protestors' peace campaign. ... This comes four days after some residents and tribal elders from Herat, Farah and Paktia provinces also established sit-in camps to support Helmand's peaceÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
April 4, 2018
There were no reports of violence from Nuristan, Panjshir and Bamyan provinces. Pajhwok reports showed of the total 135 attacks during February, most happened in Faryab, Helmand, Uruzgan, Farah, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Takhar, Logar and Khost province. Military Affairs Expert Gen. ZalmaiÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 23, 2018
“Our politics is inclusive, national and we want a unified Afghanistan,” Humayan told the gathering. He told the residents of southeastern Khost province. “No one can buy me.” The first deputy speaker said they were aware of the plot to disintegrate Afghanistan. “It saddens the government when I meet UstadÃâà...
Long War Journal
March 21, 2018
The Pakistani government claimed that the US killed Frontier Corps troops, but the US released video of the incident showing the Taliban being targeted ... they fled back into the Pakistani tribal agencies of North Waziristan and Kurram after the terror group attacked US bases in Khost and Paktia provinces.
Yahoo News Canada (blog)
March 15, 2018
On Jan. 19, 2009, a truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan's Khost province. About 90 ... The jury convicted him of all nine charges he faced, which also included use of explosives and conspiracy to bomb a government facility. "This guy's for realÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
March 14, 2018
Meanwhile, after years of closure, the Ghulam Khan crossing point linking Khost province of Afghanistan with the North Waziristan of Pakistan opened last week upon ... Taliban should not see Indonesia as an extension of the Afghan government or the U.S., Indonesian Ulema Council official said Monday.
TOLOnews
March 14, 2018
This comes after businessmen in southern Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces last month called on government to help resolve challenges they have in exporting pine nuts. According to them, more than 40,000 tons of pine nuts was harvested this solar year but much of this was smuggled to Pakistan.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 13, 2018
In southeastern Khost province, unknown gunmen killed a police officer along with another person in Khost City, the provincial capital, on Sunday evening. The officer was returning from a wedding party when came under attack from unknown assailants. A government source said the slain police officerÃâà...
Daily Times
March 11, 2018
She feels that the government should have provided all these facilities before repatriating displaced families because it is impossible for the educated youth ... that 14,072 TDP families have yet to return to their areas, including 4,000 families who are residing in South Eastern Khost province of Afghanistan.
The State Journal-Register
March 9, 2018
He was based at Camp Clark in Khost province, where he was the site manager overseeing a road project. He solicited $280,000 in bribes from ... He asked Mills not to consider Miller's willingness to cooperate with the government because almost all of the information he provided was known. “The value of the defendant'sÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 6, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): An explosive-laden Humvee vehicle has been seized and defused in the Nadershah ... Without giving details, he said, the target was government institutions and no one had been arrested in connection with the terrorist plot currently beingÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 6, 2018
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): An explosive-laden Humvee vehicle has been seized and defused in the Nadershah Walikot district of southeastern Khost province, ... Without giving details, he said, the target was government institutions and no one had been arrested in connection with the terrorist plot currentlyÃâà...
Xinhua
March 4, 2018
KHOST, Afghanistan, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A clash between security forces and anti-government militants claimed the lives of four civilians in Nadir Shahkot district of Afghanistan's eastern Khost province on Saturday night, deputy to provincial police chief, Abdul Hanan said Sunday. The clash, according toÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
February 28, 2018
Five years ago: During U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip to Afghanistan as defense chief, two suicide bombings, one outside the Afghan Defense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in eastern Khost province, killed at least 19 people; a Taliban spokesman said the blast outside theÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 23, 2018
The ceremony to mark the start of work in Afghanistan of TAPI was attended by high-ranking government officials including the Afghan President, the Turkmen ... As work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project started in Herat province, Afghans said this was a major boost for the country'sÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 18, 2018
According to the OIE, the Afghan government recently reported two outbreaks of a highly contagious bird flu virus. The OIE said the H5 virus was detected in a backyard in Kabul where it ... This came after an outbreak was earlier detected in Khost province. “We have professionalized our activities in those parts (the easternÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 17, 2018
The incumbent officials have been running the IEC provincial offices for the past 10 years, according to sources. In addition some IECemployees in provincial offices are employed in their home province, which is in contravention of the election law. “There are people in top government positions in provincesÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 10, 2018
... At least seven members of a single family embraced martyrdom after the Afghan air forces carried out strike in Khost province, the resident claimed. ... operation from air and ground was carried out in Bati Tana village in Ali Sher district against anti-government armed militants, TOLONews reported.
Xinhua
February 10, 2018
11 (Xinhua) -- A religious scholar has been killed in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, local police said Sunday. ... The Taliban outfit and Islamic State (IS) militant group often target civilians, religious clerics and local leaders for their support to the government, NATO and U.S.-led forces stationed inÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 10, 2018
Businessmen in southern Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces have called on government to help resolve challenges they have in exporting pine nuts. According to them, more than 40,000 tons of pine nuts was harvested this year but much of this was smuggled to Pakistan. A number of pine nut merchants said they haveÃâà...
Reliefweb
February 10, 2018
Khost province is part of the transitory route of the Kuchis over winters from East and Central Afghanistan into Pakistan (FATA, KPK and NW Frontier). ... They are currently stranded living in open areas – without adequate shelter – and unable to return to their native Afghan provinces until the weatherÃâà...
Voice of America
February 9, 2018
Sajna was believed to be residing in Khost and was returning to the Waziristan region with his fighters when the drone hit them, according to sources within his Mehsud tribe. Washington has designated ... and elsewhere in Afghanistan. The Afghan government alleged the violence was plotted in Pakistan.
TOLOnews
February 8, 2018
The security officer of Khost Police Headquarters confirmed that military operation from air and ground was carried out in Bati Tana village in Ali Sher district against anti-government armed militants. However, he did not confirm civilian casualties in the operation. He said a team has been sent to the district to probe theÃâà...
Xinhua
February 7, 2018
People offer funeral prayers for a civilian who was killed by pro-government forces in Ali Sher district of Khost province, Afghanistan, Feb. 8, 2018. At least 11 civilians were believed to be killed by pro-government forces in two eastern provinces in Afghanistan, authorities and locals said Thursday.
The Express Tribune
February 6, 2018
A government official from North Waziristan told The Express Tribune that the TDP's were bound to return from February 6. “However, they ... The families had fled to Afghanistan's Khost province after the army initiated the military operation Zarb-e-Azb in 2014 to counter terrorism in the region. According toÃâà...
WTOP
December 31, 1999
Hamidullin was captured by the Afghan Border Police and American soldiers in the Khost province of Afghanistan after he planned and participated in an attack on an Afghan Border Police post at Camp Leyza. Prosecutors said that when U.S. helicopters responded to the attack, the insurgents tried to fire atÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Clashes erupted between Afghan border forces and Pakistani military in Khost and neighboring Paktia provinces earlier this week. ... “Your intelligence is promoting wrong propaganda against us (Afghan government forces) and saying that Indian forces are with Afghan border forces. This is not good,” saidÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Meanwhile a number of residents in Khost criticized the Afghan government over its failure to deliver on its promises. ... Ghani's comments on civilian casualties comes after the Afghan air force recently carried out an air strike on a madrassa in Taliban-controlled Daftani village in Kunduz province.
ActionNewsJax.com
December 31, 1999
In the western Ghor province, meanwhile, a roadside bomb killed a young shepherd and wounded five others. Police spokesman Iqbal Nizami said the Taliban planted the bomb in order to target security forces. In the eastern Khost province, police spokesman Basir Bina said a roadside bomb killed twoÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
... hard work and community support, the Abdul Hai Habibi High School has become one of the finest government schools in Afghanistan's Khost Province. ... The objectives of the EQRA education project are to increase equitable access to primary and secondary education in selected provinces that areÃâà...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
19, 2009, a truck carrying a bomb exploded outside the U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan's Khost province. About 90 Americans were ... Government witnesses testified there were 18 prints found on the unexploded bomb that matched Al Farekh's fingerprints. The prints were pulledÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
The provinces sheltering the highest number of displaced families are Kunduz with 10,815 IDPs, followed by Farah with more than 2,000 displaced people. ... CR: In Khost Province, WFP distributed food to more than 16,000 Pakistani refugees in Matun (Khost), Gurbaz, Shamal, Tani and Spera districts.
Yahoo News Canada (blog)
December 31, 1999
The minimum sentence is seven years, but the U.S. government is asking the court to impose the maximum penalty of life in prison. ... 19, 2009, two vehicles loaded with explosives lumbered toward Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan's Khost province where, court heard, some 90 AmericansÃâà...
