Text of report by private Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency Ghazni, 8 June: The Taleban have damaged a telecommunication company's mast in Zabol [Province in southern Afghanistan].

Text of report in English by private Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency Kandahar: A clash between police and foreign troops in Ghazni last night left eight policemen and an Afghan civilian dead and four wounded, governor's spokesman Thursday (24 January).

Excerpt from report by state-run Iranian radio external service from Mashhad on 12 January [Presenter] Three positive cases of HIV have been confirmed in Ghazni Province recently.

By Rachel Cohen HAYWARD -- ''I want more education for our people, especially for women, because most are illiterate," a key mover in Hayward's sister city relationship with Ghazni, Afghanistan, said Wednesday after a meeting with Hayward's mayor.

Text of report in English by Afghan independent Pajhwok news agency website Ghazni city, 24 September: Sixty passengers were killed and wounded in a head-on collision between a bus and a coaster [?bus] on the busy Kabul-Kandahar highway on Monday.