Wardak

Soon after it came to light that she had been intercepted while trying to smuggle 25 kg of gold worth about Rs 18 crore into India from Dubai, Afghanistan's Consul General in Mumbai has announced that she is stepping down.

The Taliban killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces inside a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province today, a senior defence official said.

The Afghan Taliban killed at least 12 security force members in a car bomb attack on a military base in the central province of Maidan Wardak on Monday, officials said.

At least five people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside a police compound in central Afghan province of Wardak on Saturday, a police spokesman said.

Afghan special forces raided a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Afghanistan, in search of a suspected Al Qaeda operative being treated there, a commander of the elite force said today.

Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said.

Preliminary results from Afghanistan's presidential election, due to be announced on Wednesday, have been delayed, an election official said, amid accusations of fraud that threaten to split the fragile country along ethnic lines.

Afghanistan's education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged "poisonings" that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO-led forces have reached an agreement on the departure of foreign troops from a strategically key province near the capital, coalition forces said, but it was unclear if US special forces would leave.

Several hundred demonstrators chanting "U.S. special operations forces out!" marched to the Afghan parliament building in Kabul Saturday, protesting the continued presence of U.S. commandos in Afghanistan's troubled Wardak province.

An Afghan policeman gunned down two US special forces on Monday in Wardak province, less than 24 hours after President Hamid Karzai's deadline expired for them to leave the area where residents have grown increasingly hostile toward the Americans.

A suicide car bomber killed two people and wounded 40 others, including women and children, in an attack on Friday in Wardak province west of Kabul, police said.

Two foreigners, thought to be a Canadian and a U.S. citizen, were reported missing on Saturday by a provincial reconstruction team in volatile Wardak, west of Kabul, and were feared to have been kidnapped, Afghan police said.

The Afghan defense minister has said that he is stepping down, just days after receiving a no-confidence vote from parliament.

Taliban insurgents near the Afghan capital Kabul executed four civilians working for a Western security company, officials said today, days after a similar execution in the area. The bullet-riddled bodies of the four men were found in the Jalrez district of Wardak province, 40 kilometres from Kabul.

Soon after it came to light that she had been intercepted while trying to smuggle 25 kg of gold worth about Rs 18 crore into India from Dubai, Afghanistan's Consul General in Mumbai has announced that she is stepping down.

The Taliban killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces inside a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province today, a senior defence official said.

The Afghan Taliban killed at least 12 security force members in a car bomb attack on a military base in the central province of Maidan Wardak on Monday, officials said.

At least five people were killed and 15 more wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside a police compound in central Afghan province of Wardak on Saturday, a police spokesman said.

Afghan special forces raided a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Afghanistan, in search of a suspected Al Qaeda operative being treated there, a commander of the elite force said today.

Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said.

Preliminary results from Afghanistan's presidential election, due to be announced on Wednesday, have been delayed, an election official said, amid accusations of fraud that threaten to split the fragile country along ethnic lines.

Afghanistan's education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged "poisonings" that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO-led forces have reached an agreement on the departure of foreign troops from a strategically key province near the capital, coalition forces said, but it was unclear if US special forces would leave.

Several hundred demonstrators chanting "U.S. special operations forces out!" marched to the Afghan parliament building in Kabul Saturday, protesting the continued presence of U.S. commandos in Afghanistan's troubled Wardak province.

An Afghan policeman gunned down two US special forces on Monday in Wardak province, less than 24 hours after President Hamid Karzai's deadline expired for them to leave the area where residents have grown increasingly hostile toward the Americans.

A suicide car bomber killed two people and wounded 40 others, including women and children, in an attack on Friday in Wardak province west of Kabul, police said.

Two foreigners, thought to be a Canadian and a U.S. citizen, were reported missing on Saturday by a provincial reconstruction team in volatile Wardak, west of Kabul, and were feared to have been kidnapped, Afghan police said.

The Afghan defense minister has said that he is stepping down, just days after receiving a no-confidence vote from parliament.

Taliban insurgents near the Afghan capital Kabul executed four civilians working for a Western security company, officials said today, days after a similar execution in the area. The bullet-riddled bodies of the four men were found in the Jalrez district of Wardak province, 40 kilometres from Kabul.