Tolo News: Kandahar’s new cricket ground, compliments of India, was inaugurated in the provincial capital on Monday – 16 months after construction work began on phase one of the project. The project entails three phases, including the pitch and stadium; an academy; and the guest house, gymnasium and swimming pool phase. The cricket field was constructed
The World Bank: A health center in Kandahar Province is seeing more female patients and healthy deliveries as a result of community campaigns to raise public awareness and increase trust in health care services. The campaigns are part of the efforts of the System Enhancement for Health Action in Transition (SEHAT) program to expand the scope,
Tolo News: At least seven people were killed in a road accident on Wednesday on the Kandahar-Herat Highway in the country’s south-west, local officials confirmed. The accident happened in Maiwand district when a passenger bus and car collided, the provincial governor’s spokesman Qudratullah Khoshbakht said. Click here to read more (external link).
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 11 (Xinhua) — Two Afghan civilians were wounded after NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces opened fire in southern province of Kandahar on Sunday, a local official said. “Initially an explosion went off near a mobile patrol of coalition forces Sunday morning near Kandahar airport. The foreign security force secured the area and
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan February 28, 2018 Afghan officials say at least five police officers have been killed and 30 other people abducted in two separate incidents in the south of the country. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for Oruzgan Province’s governor, told RFE/RL that the incidents occurred on a highway linking Kandahar and Oruzgan
VOA News February 21, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A global watchdog is calling on Afghan authorities and the U.S. military to promptly investigate allegations local forces summarily executed civilians during recent counter-Taliban operations in the southern Kandahar province. The alleged abuses occurred from January 31 to February 1 when Afghan special forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes, undertook
Tolo News: Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Abdul Raziq responded to recent rumors about his removal from the position, saying that he has not been appointed by the government and that the state cannot remove him. He made the remarks in an interview with a local radio station in Kandahar. Raziq said the government is a coalition
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 22, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a suicide bombing early Friday killed at least six policemen and wounded 10 others, including an area commander, in southern Kandahar province. The bomber rammed his explosives-filed four-wheel drive military light truck, commonly known as Humvee, into a police station in the Maiwand
Tolo News: Kandahar’s powerful police chief general Abdul Raziq on Thursday warned that the dismissal of Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor would have significant implications on the security situation in the province. Meanwhile, a leading figure of Jamiat-e-Islami, a party where Noor is serving as chief executive, has said that Noor is ready to step down
Ayaz Gul VOA News / December 17, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations is calling on all parties in the Afghan conflict to facilitate health workers in conducting Monday’s urgent polio vaccination campaign in a volatile southern district with the highest number of polio virus cases of any district in the world. U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator Toby