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At least seven people were killed and more than 30 injured Monday when a magnitude-5.3 earthquake hit a mountainous province in northern Afghanistan, officials said.
The quake hit the Dara-e-soof and Doaab districts of Samangan province shortly after midnight Monday, destroying and damaging more than 200 houses, said Haji Gholam Sakhi, the deputy provincial governor.
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A roadside bomb killed a Pakistani construction worker and wounded six of his compatriots on Sunday in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, local police said.
According to Foreign Media Reports, Last week, five Pakistani employees of the same Pakistani construction firm, CITA, were gunned down by unknown people in another part of Kandahar.
Kandahar is [...]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to head to Afghanistan on Wednesday, his first trip to Tehran’s eastern neighbour since the re-election last August of his counterpart Hamid Karzai.
“The president is going on Wednesday” to Afghanistan, foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters at his weekly press conference.
On Sunday, an Iranian news agency, Mehr, reported [...]
