Tag: Kandahar
12 killed in car bombing outside Kandahar police headquarters
KABUL: Twelve people were killed and more than 80 wounded when Taliban fighters detonated two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in the...
Pilot ‘mistakenly’ triggers hijack scare on Kandahar-bound plane at Delhi airport
NEW DELHI: A hijack scare on a Kandahar-bound flight sent security officials at the Delhi international airport into tizzy on Saturday after the pilot "mistakenly"...
Pakistan denies hand in Kandahar insider attack
--FO spokesman says Kabul's allegations that attack was planned on Pakistani soil are 'baseless', 'unfounded'
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected Kabul's "baseless" and "unfounded allegations" regarding...
Afghanistan delays elections in Kandahar after Taliban attack
KABUL: Afghanistan postponed legislative elections in Kandahar province on Friday, after a Taliban-claimed attack on a US-Afghan security meeting killed a powerful police chief...
Afghan attack won’t change Kandahar security situation, says Mattis
SINGAPORE: US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that the killing of a top Afghan official would not fundamentally change the security situation...
Kandahar police chief bans Pakistani Rupees in southern Afghan province
A senior Afghan police official regarded as one of the country's most powerful men has banned the use of Pakistani Rupees (PKR) in the...
Afghan policeman kills five colleagues in Kandahar
A rogue Afghan policeman drugged his colleagues before shooting five of them dead, officials said Thursday.
The incident took place Wednesday night at a checkpoint...
At least 37 killed in Taliban siege at Kandahar airport
At least 37 people were killed and 35 others wounded after Taliban militants stormed Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan, with one of the 11...
Taliban raid on Afghan airport kills at least eight
At least eight people were killed after Taliban militants stormed an airport complex in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar city, triggering an all-night gun battle into...
Taliban storm Kandahar airport complex, clashes underway
Explosions and gunfire rang out as Taliban militants stormed the airport complex in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday, officials said, with...
Afghan soldier killed in suicide attack near Kandahar
Militants wearing Afghan army uniforms launched a suicide and gun attack on a police headquarters near Kandahar Thursday, killing one soldier before the attackers...
Mullah Omar asked Musharraf to bomb Kandahar: US cable
The late Taliban leader Mullah Omar asked the Musharraf government to bring in weapons and bomb Kandahar if it did not like Taliban policies,...
Suicide bomber kills 5 in Afghanistan
Five civilians were killed and 36 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on an Afghan army vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Local government spokesman...
Kandahar, cradle of Afghan insurgency, torn by tribal rivalry ahead of...
Growing violence in the southern province of Kandahar ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential election next week highlights a rift between Pashtun tribes that could tip...
12 Afghan Taliban inmates freed on forged letter
KANDAHAR
A dozen high-profile Taliban inmates have mistakenly been freed from the central jail in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan with falsified documents, officials...
8 Afghan policemen killed in bomb attack
Up to eight Afghan policemen were killed and six others wounded overnight when a bomb went off in Kandahar city, capital of Kandahar province,...
PIA plane safe during Kandahar airport attack
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft escaped disaster as suspected Taliban attacked Kandahar airport in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, PIA spokesperson said.
According to...
