GHAZNICITY (PAN): In the restive southern province of Ghazni, residents of 10 out of 18 districts have been disenfranchised due to closure of roads by Taliban militants.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Taliban insurgents stormed five polling stations, burnt some ballot boxes and threw others into a river in Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Despite militant threats of attacks on election officials and voters, Kabul residents went to the polls to choose a new president and provincial council members.
KABUL (PAN): Security forces surrounded two suicide attackers holed up inside a building in front of the police headquarters in Kabul, killing one as the second blew himself up, officials said on Thursday.
JALALABAD (PAN): Many voters in the four eastern provinces said they walked to the polling centres without any fear and voted for candidates of their choice.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Residents of four volatile southern provinces say they cast their ballots amid insurgent threats. Polling began across the country on Thursday at and closed after a one-hour hour extension from to .
KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai Thursday congratulated Afghans on successful holding of the presidential and provincial council elections in the country, reeling from unrelenting militant-linked violence and widespread poverty.
SHARAN (PAN): Nine Taliban, two civilians and a policeman were killed in separate incidents of violence in southeastern Paktika province, an official said Thursday.
GARDEZ (PAN): Two motorcycles riders were killed when the explosives in their possession went off about 70-metre away form a polling station in southeastern Paktia province on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): A key challenger to President Hamid Karzai in the presidential vote -- the second in Afghanistan's history -- has characterised initial results from the landmark polls as "satisfactory and encouraging."
