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Paktika Provincial Council Elections

Mammoth rally held in support of security forces

By: ‎,Date: 2015-07-08

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Scores of people in southeastern Paktika province held a huge rally to express solidarity with security forces and offered to fight alongside Afghan security forces for peace and stability in the country.
Hundreds of residents, civil society activists and government officials participated in the rally with participants holding placards inscribed with: “Death to Pakistan and Long Live Afghanistan.”
The protesters chanted anti-Pakistan slogans following reports that Pakistani troops moved to construct post deeper inside Afghanistan territory.

Corruption rampant in Paktika offices: activists

By: ‎,Date: 2015-06-17

SHARANA (Pajhwok): Civil society activists and the youth on Wednesday demanded the government banish corruption from the public sector offices in southeastern Paktika province.
They held a gathering at the Tribal Affairs Directorate in Sharana, the provincial capital, calling for tainted officials to be prosecuted.
Khurshid Aman Katawazi, deputy head of the Coordination Office of Civil Society Groups in Paktika, told the gathering corruption ran rampant in the provincial administration.