Provincial Council Elections

KHOST CITY (PAN): A prisoner was beaten nearly to death in custody by intelligence officials at a detention facility in southeastern Khost province, the victim's family and a medical officer claimed on Thursday, but the allegation was rejected by officials of the provincial National Directorate of Security (NDS).

د خوست ولايتي شورا ځينې وزارتونه دغه ولايت ته په نه پاملرنه تورنوي

KHOST CITY (PAN): The provincial council in southeastern Khost province on Monday threatened to stage a protest and block roads if construction work on the Khost-Gardez highway did not resume soon.

KHOST CITY (PAN): The former head of the Khost provincial council’s administrative board on Sunday rejected last week’s election, insisting that they were still members of the body.
The board election was held after a two months delay on last Thursday in the absence of four members. Dawood Shah Makeen was elected as the board’s head, Jan Mir Zazai deputy head and Zuhra Jalal speaker council.

KHOST CITY (PAN): The Tribal Solidarity Council in southeastern Khost province on Thursday urged the armed opposition to participate in the upcoming elections.
The call came at a meeting attended by more than 300 tribal elders, religious scholars and youth at the council's office in Khost City, the provincial capital.

KHOST CITY (PAN): Provincial council members in southeastern Khost province on Thursday closed the council's office in protest against a joint Afghan-international security operation that resulted in the deaths of six civilians.

KHOST CITY (PAN): A powerful figure in southeastern Khost province on Thursday criticised the election commission for indicating that no voting centres would be set up in insecure areas during next year’s presidential and provincial council polls.

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Four Taliban, including one of their commanders, have been killed in a clash with police in the Qarabagh district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Friday.
The gunbattle was triggered by an overnight insurgent attack on a post of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force in the area, Fazal Rahman Nazarwal, the district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News.