- GARDEZ - A US military base
near this capital city came under missile attack, which caused no damage,
security officials said.
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- Paktia's deputy police chief Col. Ghulam Nabi Salem said
the missiles, fired at the US base from a place west of the city, failed
to explode.
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- He added a search operation had been mounted in the area
to track down the assailants, but no one had been arrested so far.
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- Meanwhile, unidentified gunmen shot dead a reserve police
official in the Zurmat district, Salem said Ghulam Hazrat was gunned down
in Sahako area of the district.
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- He said the murderers fled the scene; however, police
arrested 10 suspects during raids in the area. A hunt was on to nab the
culprits, the deputy police chief concluded.
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- Roadside Blast Kills Four Afghan Soldiers
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- Associated Press of Pakistan
8-24-5
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- KANDAHAR - Four policemen
were killed and four were wounded in two separate roadside bomb attacks
amid a spiralling insurgency in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday.
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- Two police officers died and one was hurt on Sunday by
a remote control device in Sia-sang, a village in restive Uruzgan province,
provincial governor Jan Mohammed said.
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- "Their police jeep was hit by a roadside bomb in
Sia-sang village of Charchino district," said Khan. Separately, two
policemen were killed and three were wounded by another roadside bomb on
Sunday in Soray, a district of troubled Zabul province, district chief
Rozy Khan said.
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- The deaths came on the same day as four US soldiers were
killed and three wounded by a similar attack in Zabul.
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- Another two Americans suffered minor injuries when a
roadside blast hit a US embassy car near Kabul, also on Sunday. Roadside
bombs are frequently used by militants from the ousted Taliban regime,
who have stepped up attacks ahead of key parliamentary elections on September
18.
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- Meanwhile, Afghan forces have arrested thirty suspected
persons including two Pakistani nationals on Monday, during crackdown in
Wardak province.
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- Police chief of Nangarhar province have claimed to arrest
two suspected Pakistani nationals Niaz Gul and Naveed from Chatrob area,
while they were roaming in the area in police uniform.
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- Meanwhile, Provincial Security commander also confirmed
the report by saying that about thirty persons included two Pakistani citizens
have been rounded up during crackdowns in the province.
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- Rockets Fired At Maidan Shahr
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- Pajhwok Afghan News
8-23-5
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- GHAZNI CITY - Two security
guards were wounded in a rocket attack on provincial capital of the Maidan
Wardak province on Sunday.
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- Four rockets, fired from an unknown location, hit building
of the communication department in Maidan Shahr, west of the central capital.Colonel
Masoom Khan, deputy police chief of the province, told Pajhwok Afghan News
the rockets were fired from Lalandar area, six kilometres south of the
provincial capital.
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- Giving details, the police chief said three of the four
rockets missed the target and landed in the surroundings, while the fourth
hit the building resulting in injury to two security guards.
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- He said security was beefed up in and around the city
and police had arrested two suspected people in connection with the attack.
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- Pamphlets Threatening 'US Spies' Distributed
In Ghazn
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- Pakistan Tribune
8-24-5
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- GHAZNI CITY - Pamphlets threatening
"to kill those spying for Americans against Taliban" have been
distributed in Khogyani district of the southern Ghazni province.
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- Abdul Bari, a resident of the district who says he himself
has seen and read the literature, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Monday the
letters had apparently been distributed by Taliban fighters in a number
of villages.
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- Last week, Taliban insurgents killed a man and a woman
whom they accused of spying for American forces stationed in the area.
They warned all those working for the US military would meet a similar
fate.
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- Some hand-written papers were distributed in villages,
acknowledged Abdul Rahman Sarjang, police chief of Ghazni, who believed
it was the handiwork of those who wanted to strike fear into people's hearts.
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- Such elements blamed and killed innocent people at the
behest of Pakistan, which was providing money to the killers, he alleged,
asking the miscreants to realize they could not get away with murder indefinitely.
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- Two days back, similar leaflets warning girls against
going to schools were distributed in Qara Bagh and Andar districts of Ghazni.
Dr Faisal, a resident of Andar district, said the papers threatened school-going
girls and their families with dire consequences.
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- Ghazni education department chief Fatema Mushtaq said
she did not have any concrete information about the spread of the threatening
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