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"Trying To Look Like Animals": Taliban On Women Without Hijab
The Taliban's religious police have put up posters across the southern Afghan city of Kandahar saying that Muslim women who do not wear an Islamic hijab that fully covers their bodies are "trying to look like animals."
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Police Arrests 2 Afghan Nationals For Smuggling Drugs, Seize 50 Kg Heroin
The two are from Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan and smuggled the drugs into the country via the Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, they said.
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Afghan Residents Risk Their Lives To Vote In Delayed Kandahar Poll
Afghans risked their lives to vote in legislative elections in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, after the Taliban-claimed killing of a powerful police chief delayed the ballot by a week.
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Top Afghan Police Chief Killed In Shooting, US General Unhurt
Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan's most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor's compound in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.
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11 Children Killed In Suicide Attack In Afghanistan's Kandahar
A suicide attack on a foreign military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least 11 children who were nearby, officials said, amid a spate of attacks across the war-torn country.
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Abdur Rehman Admits Link With Kandahar Plane Hijack Terrorists
Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.
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4 Afghan Police, 1 Spaniard Killed In Kabul Siege
At least four Afghan policemen and one Spaniard were killed in an hours-long Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul that ended early today after all the attackers were killed, officials said.
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Handling of Kandahar Hijack Was 'Goofed Up', Says Former RAW Chief A S Dulat
Former chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A S Dulat has said that the response to the IC-814 hijack in 1999 was "goofed up" as no clear instructions were given to the police when the plane landed in Amritsar due to which the hijackers managed to take it to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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Taliban Attack on Checkpoint Kills 5 Afghan Policemen
An Afghan official says an attack on a police checkpoint in the southern province of Kandahar has killed five policemen. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Taliban Suicide Attack Kills Three Afghan Policemen
An Afghan official says a Taliban suicide bomber has killed a district police chief and his two guards in southern Kandahar province.
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Suicide bomber killed near Indian mission in Afghanistan
A would-be-suicide bomber was shot dead close to the Indian consulate building in Afghanistan's Kandahar city on Thursday, the police said.
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Another female police officer shot in Afghanistan
Gunmen shot the top female police officer in a troubled southern Afghan province on Sunday, leaving her facing possible paralysis just months after her predecessor was killed, government and hospital authorities said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan, where just 1 percent of the police force is female.
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Two guests invited to dinner open fire, kill seven Afghan policemen
Suspected Taliban militants killed seven policemen in southern Afghanistan after persuading the officers to invite them into their checkpoint for dinner, officials said on Tuesday.
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Taliban start spring Afghan offensive with bombing
Taliban insurgents marked the start of their spring offensive on Sunday by claiming responsibility for a remote-controlled roadside bomb blast that killed three police officers.
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Twin suicide attack at Afghan tribal meeting kills four
Two suicide bombers struck a meeting of community leaders in a southern Afghan town near the border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said.
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"Trying To Look Like Animals": Taliban On Women Without Hijab
The Taliban's religious police have put up posters across the southern Afghan city of Kandahar saying that Muslim women who do not wear an Islamic hijab that fully covers their bodies are "trying to look like animals."
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Police Arrests 2 Afghan Nationals For Smuggling Drugs, Seize 50 Kg Heroin
The two are from Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan and smuggled the drugs into the country via the Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, they said.
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Afghan Residents Risk Their Lives To Vote In Delayed Kandahar Poll
Afghans risked their lives to vote in legislative elections in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, after the Taliban-claimed killing of a powerful police chief delayed the ballot by a week.
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Top Afghan Police Chief Killed In Shooting, US General Unhurt
Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan's most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor's compound in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.
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11 Children Killed In Suicide Attack In Afghanistan's Kandahar
A suicide attack on a foreign military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Monday killed at least 11 children who were nearby, officials said, amid a spate of attacks across the war-torn country.
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Abdur Rehman Admits Link With Kandahar Plane Hijack Terrorists
Al-Qaeda Indian sub-continent (AQIS) operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman has admitted his links with the terrorists involved in the 1999 Kandahar plane hijack and 2002 American Centre blast incident in Kolkata, a senior police official said today.
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4 Afghan Police, 1 Spaniard Killed In Kabul Siege
At least four Afghan policemen and one Spaniard were killed in an hours-long Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul that ended early today after all the attackers were killed, officials said.
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Handling of Kandahar Hijack Was 'Goofed Up', Says Former RAW Chief A S Dulat
Former chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) A S Dulat has said that the response to the IC-814 hijack in 1999 was "goofed up" as no clear instructions were given to the police when the plane landed in Amritsar due to which the hijackers managed to take it to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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Taliban Attack on Checkpoint Kills 5 Afghan Policemen
An Afghan official says an attack on a police checkpoint in the southern province of Kandahar has killed five policemen. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Taliban Suicide Attack Kills Three Afghan Policemen
An Afghan official says a Taliban suicide bomber has killed a district police chief and his two guards in southern Kandahar province.
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Suicide bomber killed near Indian mission in Afghanistan
A would-be-suicide bomber was shot dead close to the Indian consulate building in Afghanistan's Kandahar city on Thursday, the police said.
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Another female police officer shot in Afghanistan
Gunmen shot the top female police officer in a troubled southern Afghan province on Sunday, leaving her facing possible paralysis just months after her predecessor was killed, government and hospital authorities said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan, where just 1 percent of the police force is female.
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Two guests invited to dinner open fire, kill seven Afghan policemen
Suspected Taliban militants killed seven policemen in southern Afghanistan after persuading the officers to invite them into their checkpoint for dinner, officials said on Tuesday.
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Taliban start spring Afghan offensive with bombing
Taliban insurgents marked the start of their spring offensive on Sunday by claiming responsibility for a remote-controlled roadside bomb blast that killed three police officers.
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Twin suicide attack at Afghan tribal meeting kills four
Two suicide bombers struck a meeting of community leaders in a southern Afghan town near the border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said.
