Tag: Kandahar

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has started flights on Quetta-Kandahar route and first plane with 198 passengers on board flew on Tuesday. The inauguration ceremony was...

PIA management after thorough deliberation has decided to commence flights between Quetta in Pakistan and Kandahar in Afghanistan from December 25 , 2012 on...

Afghan-led security force, supported by coalition troops, arrested a Taliban senior leader in Kandahar province. NATO-led International Security Assistance Force following a statement on Wednesday...

Police in Indian-held Kashmir have arrested a militant suspected of involvement in the 1999 hijacking of an Indian passenger plane that was flown to...

Eleven Taliban suicide attackers struck two Afghan and NATO bases in Kandahar province on Tuesday, after gunmen in police uniforms killed a coalition soldier,...

About 1,000 Afghans took to the streets in a southern town on Thursday to protest against the mass killing of 16 civilians in a...

A suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the Kandahar on Monday, killing at least one police officer, officials said. Four other people,...

Suicide attackers on Monday blew up a truck bomb and raided a UN and US development offices in Kandahar, killing five Afghans in the...

Suicide attackers on Monday blew up a truck bomb and raided the offices of a US charity, killing four Afghans in the second attack...

Attackers struck a US-run civilian-military base in Kandahar on Thursday, where explosions and gunfire could be heard, police and witnesses said. "The attack is continuing...

The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on...

Five people were killed and 15 others injured on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar city, the capital of southern Afghan province...

The governor of Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province on Tuesday escaped unharmed from an insurgent ambush and gun battle that left two attackers dead, his...

The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday, leaving...

Twenty blasts rocked Kandahar province in south Afghanistan on Saturday, leaving at least 16 injured, local official said. "Since the beginning of Taliban's attack in...

Afghan police have arrested the prison governor and fellow police officers after a mass break-out from a jail in southern Afghanistan, officials and a...

KANDAHAR - A suicide bomber killed on Friday the police chief of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a stronghold of the Taliban-led insurgency, after penetrating tight defences at the police headquarters, government and security officials said.
Khan Mohammad Mujahid, one of the most prominent government targets in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, had survived two previous attacks, one on his home and one on his motorcade as it travelled through the city.