KABUL: A roadside bomb hit a tractor in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing seven civilians and wounding four, a Intrior Ministry official said. The tractor and trailer hit the anti-vehicle mine in the Mali Zai area of Zabul province. “The injured were taken to hospital by Afghan National Police.”
3,035 vacancies in Baluchistan
ISLAMABAD: There were 3,035 positions vacant under the provincial quota for Pakistan’s southwestern province of Baluchistan as on April 3 as per the Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Baluchistan Package, indicating that the province was ignored during the five-year tenure of PPP-led coalition government. Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, from Baluchistan, wants these vacancies be filled by April 30 and has issued directives.
Rebels gunned down by forces
Kabul: Afghan security forces and International Security Assistance Force have killed four armed Taliban and injured three in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan. According to the Interior Ministry website, operations were conducted in Kunduz, Khost, Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Afghan National Police also confiscated light and heavy ammunitions and improvised explosive devices.
Three of family die in car crash
Islamabad: Three members of a family were killed and two injured when their car ran into a tree east of Pakistan yesterday. The car carrying five members, including a woman and a girl, met with the accident in the Dahryma area in the eastern Punjab province of Pakistan, police said. The victims were taken to hospital. The family was coming from Lahore.
Nato truck driver shot dead
Islamabad: A driver was killed and his assistant injured when gunmen attacked a lorry carrying Nato goods in Pakistan’s north-western tribal region, officials said yesterday. The attack took place near the town of Jamrud in Khyber along the Afghanistan border. The gunmen fired indiscriminately at the truck heading towards Peshawar. agencies
