Kabul - An Afghan police official and 12 Taliban militants were killed near Kabul city, while four other policemen were killed by a roadside bomb in the eastern region, officials said Tuesday. The chief of the criminal section for the Mosayee district of Kabul province was killed by during a police operation in the district on Monday, an interior ministry statement said.
It said 12 armed Taliban were killed by Afghan forces in the combat about 15 kilometres south of Kabul city.
Kabul, Apr. 28 : Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has bowed to international pressure by promising to amend a new law condoning marital rape and child marriage that provoked violent clashes in the Afghan capital.
The Shia Family Law, signed by Karzai last month, appeared to reintroduce the draconian policies of the Taleban era, such as a ban on married women leaving their homes without their husbands' permission. The law applies to the 15 per cent of Afghans who are Shia Muslims.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Monday that he intended to run for re-election in the country's presidential polls slated in August 20. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan for more than seven years since the ouster of the Islamist extremist Taliban regime in late 2001, had hinted his intention for re-election in the past, but had said that he would do so if the Afghan people asked him.
Kabul - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday in Kabul that the world could not tolerate the existence of terrorist bases in border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying a new strategy would be unveiled this week.
Brown arrived on a surprise visit in Afghanistan on Monday morning and met with President Hamid Karzai to discuss his plans to fight the "crucible of terrorism" in the border region, to be formally announced in the House of Commons this week.
Kabul - Five Afghan policemen and two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in a restive southern province, where five Taliban militants were also killed, officials said Monday. The five insurgents were killed by Afghan and coalition forces in Zharai district of the southern province of Kandahar Monday morning, the US military said in a statement.
Kabul - Taliban militants have sustained heavy casualties in the latest operations by Afghan and NATO-led forces in the central province of Wardak, an Afghan provincial spokesman said Saturday. The operation started on Friday afternoon in Wardak's Chak district, which lies on the south-western border of Kabul city, Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told the German News Agency dpa.
Kabul - An Afghan police official and 12 Taliban militants were killed near Kabul city, while four other policemen were killed by a roadside bomb in the eastern region, officials said Tuesday. The chief of the criminal section for the Mosayee district of Kabul province was killed by during a police operation in the district on Monday, an interior ministry statement said.
Kabul, Apr. 28 : Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has bowed to international pressure by promising to amend a new law condoning marital rape and child marriage that provoked violent clashes in the Afghan capital.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced on Monday that he intended to run for re-election in the country's presidential polls slated in August 20. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan for more than seven years since the ouster of the Islamist extremist Taliban regime in late 2001, had hinted his intention for re-election in the past, but had said that he would do so if the Afghan people asked him. 
Kabul - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday in Kabul that the world could not tolerate the existence of terrorist bases in border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying a new strategy would be unveiled this week.
Kabul - Five Afghan policemen and two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in a restive southern province, where five Taliban militants were also killed, officials said Monday. The five insurgents were killed by Afghan and coalition forces in Zharai district of the southern province of Kandahar Monday morning, the US military said in a statement.
Kabul - Taliban militants have sustained heavy casualties in the latest operations by Afghan and NATO-led forces in the central province of Wardak, an Afghan provincial spokesman said Saturday. The operation started on Friday afternoon in Wardak's Chak district, which lies on the south-western border of Kabul city, Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told the German News Agency dpa. 
