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Two Afghan pilots killed in military helicopter crash in Baghlan
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Baghlan [Afghanistan], September 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Two pilots of the Afghan Air Force were killed as a result of a military helicopter crash on Thursday in Baghlan province, the Afghan Defense Ministry said.
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13 terrorists killed in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 24 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 13 terrorists have been confirmed dead as government forces launched an operation in Kharwar district of eastern Logar province in Afghanistan, provincial police spokesperson Shahpor Ahmadzai said on Thursday.
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Police in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province kill 25 terrorists in past
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Logar [Afghanistan], September 23 (ANI/Sputnik): Twenty-five terrorists were killed and 18 others injured in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province over the past 24 hours in clashes with the police, the provincial police chief's spokesperson told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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Pakistan wants to make Gilgit Baltistan its province to save CPEC project,
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): A political activist from Gilgit Baltistan has said that Pakistan is forced to make occupied Gilgit Baltistan as its fifth province as the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project passing through the region is in the doldr
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Around 30 soldiers, Taliban insurgents killed in airstrikes in Central Afg
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 21 (ANI/Sputnik): Airstrikes in Afghanistan's central Maidan Wardak province have resulted in around 30 fatalities among both security officers and members of the Taliban radical movement, a local source told Sputnik on Monday.
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Pashtuns protest against state sponsored "good Taliban" and target killing
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
South Waziristan, [Pakistan] (ANI) September 21 (ANI): A large number of Pashtuns joined a protest rally in Wana in South Waziristan to condemn the ongoing unrest, target killings and regrouping of terrorists in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.
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Ten police officers killed in clashes with Taliban in Central Afghanistan
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Ten police officers and 15 Taliban members were killed in clashes that are underway between the security forces and the terrorist group for the fourth day in a row in Afghanistan's central Uruzgan province, local sources told Sputnik on Sunday
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District official in Afghanistan's Paktika province killed by gunmen
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Unknown gunmen in Afghanistan's Paktika province have shot dead Dad Mohammad Etemadi, the executive director of the Yusuf Khel district, Shah Mohammad Aryan, a spokesman for the Paktika police chief, told Sputnik on Saturday.
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1 killed, 5 injured in Afghanistan IED blast
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI): A woman lost her life and five others were injured in an IED explosion which took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan's Balkh province on Saturday evening, health officials said.
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Airstrikes on Taliban base in Afghanistan's Northeast leave 30 civilian ca
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI/Sputnik): A twin airstrike on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz has left 30 civilian casualties, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday.
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Deputy Head of Afghanistan's Paktia Provincial Council assassinated
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI/Sputnik): Ayub Gharwal, the deputy head of the provincial council of Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province, was assassinated in a shooting attack on Saturday, Mumtaz Karokhel, a member of the Paktia provincial council, told Sputnik.
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Pakistan says Gilgit-Baltistan to be elevated to full fledged province
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 17 (ANI): Weeks after releasing a political map that laid untenable claims to Indian territories, Pakistan has decided to elevate Gilgit-Baltistan to the status of a full-fledged province, according to a Pakistani minister quoted in a media report.
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