Ghazni in a sentence

The Taliban is active in Ghazni province and tried to take over the capital of Ghazni city in August.

Balochi attack on Mahmud Ghazni Baloch raiders plundered Mahmud of Ghazni 's ambassador between Tabbas and Khabis.

On Monday, Sources from Ghazni said that this incident occurred on Sunday evening in the Golzar village of the Borjegay area of the Nawur district in this province.

On Thursday, people crowded outside the stadium in the Ali Lala area of the city of Ghazni, clambering to get in, and religious scholars pleaded with relatives of the victims to forgive the convicts, but they refused.

A Boeing plane has crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province in Afghanistan on Jan.

Adam Khan Sirat, a spokesman for Ghazni police, said the plane belonged to “foreign forces,” referring to the American-led military coalition in Afghanistan.

And there were reports earlier that a passenger plane from Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines had crashed in the eastern Ghazni province, a mountainous area controlled by the Taliban.

Ghazni's provincial council chief, Nesar Ahmad Faqiri, said Tuesday that Afghan military helicopters were attempting to target Taliban militants in the village, and hit the children by mistake.

In the roadside bombing in Ghazni, Wahidullah Jamazada, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said Habibullah, the police chief of Dayak district, was killed along with his two bodyguards.

The bomb went off after a guy driving a motorized rickshaw entered a village in the Gilan district to market products and was surrounded by kids, based on Wahidullah Jumazada, spokesman for the Ghazni provincial governor.

Video taken by the Associated Press on Monday showed an Afghan military convoy shadowed by a U.S. military helicopter heading to the site of the crash, which is in the -stronghold of Ghazni province south of Kabul.

Earlier Sunday, a Taliban suicide bomber killed four police officers in an attack on a police station in the eastern Ghazni province, according to Ahmad Khan Serat, a spokesperson for the provincial police.

Mary Alimi, a 30-year-old mother of three, suffered a head injury in the Ghazni bombing.

Afghan interior minister, Wais Ahmad Barmak, said Taliban fighters were hiding in mosques and homes in Ghazni and were using residents to use as a human shield.

Col. Fared Mashal, the province’s police chief, said the majority of the insurgents fighting in Ghazni are foreigners, including Pakistanis and Chechens.

Earlier this month, the insurgents launched a coordinated assault on Ghazni, a strategic city only 120 kilometers (75 miles) from and the capital of a province with the same name.

Elections did not take place in Ghazni province either, largely due to a dispute over how to divide its electoral constituencies and provide balanced ethnic representation.

Elections will not take place in eastern Ghazni province amid an ongoing dispute over how to divide its electoral constituencies to ensure a more balanced ethnic representation.

Ghazni, the capital of the province of the same name, is located on the key highway between Afghanistan’s two largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar.

In the last election, the minority Hazaras won all the seats from Ghazni, leaving the majority Pashtuns and Tajiks without representation.