At a roadblock in Zeri Noor , just outside of Wana, Pakistan, Pakistani troops killed 11 Afghan men in a minibus that did not stop at the checkpoint. Sixteen Afghans were arrested. Pakistan officials claimed that someone from the minibus fired shots first.
Two hundred-five South Korean medics and military engineers left Seoul for Afghanistan to replace existing troops, and to help with reconstruction projects for six months.
In Thaloqan village in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, U.S. forces from the 10th Mountain Division assisted hundreds of local police in a search for the gunman who killed an Australian pilot the previous day. Thirty suspected Taliban members were rounded up.
Pakistani Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat confirmed that Pakistani paramilitary troops had been deployed along the borders of Paktia and Paktika provinces, Afghanistan, with the intent of catching leading commanders of the Afghan resistance, including Osama bin Laden.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission announced it was investigating 85 kidnapping cases involving children.
Former Afghan king Mohammed Zahir Shah was released from a hospital in New Delhi, India after two weeks of receiving medical treatment for an intestinal problem. He remained in New Delhi, however, for further observation.
In Afghanistan, high ranking delegate Mahbooba Hoqooqmal , deputy of the Afghan Ministry of Women Affairs Dr. Suraya Soobhrang , and delegates of the Afghan Ministry of Justice and the Afghanistan Independent Human Right Commission visited Herat province to investigate a series of women's accidents. It was reported that more than 180 women had burned themselves during the year and only one-third of them survived.
A high commission to prevent children smuggling was set up by the Afghan Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs .
In Kandahar province, Afghanistan, men loyal to two senior government officials exchanged gunfire in a bazaar wounding four people.
Afghan official Abdorrahim Umrani died in his bedroom from carbon monoxide poisoning at the consulate in Khorugh, Tajikistan. Another official of the consulate, Saidrahim Mahmadrahim , was in serious condition.
A Canadian soldier was shot in the face when his rifle went off in his sleeping quarters at Camp Julien in Kabul, Afghanistan. He survived and was placed in critical condition.
With the support of an NGO, a driving school for women opened in Herat, Afghanistan.
Dr. Zinat Karzai , the wife of Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai, registered to vote. She received her voting card from Amina-i-Fidrawi high school in Kabul.
U.S. special operations forces used helicopters to raid a village in Helmand province, Afghanistan and detained about 40 people. Two were identified as Mulvi Abdul Ghafar and Gul Agha , midlevel Taliban leaders.
One civilian and old soldier were killed and six people were wounded in an explosion at an Afghan National Army military post near Khost, Afghanistan.
Twenty-one rockets landed near the airport in Khost, Afghanistan.
The unit of the 2nd infantry brigade of the Macedonian Army arrived in Afghanistan to begin a six-month tour with ISAF.
An anti-tank mine exploded under a Humvee northwest of Ghazni, Afghanistan, killing one U.S. soldier of the 10th Mountain Division and wounding nine others.
Addressing the National Defence College in Islamabad, Pakistan, president Pervez Musharraf admitted [1] that some anti-government activity in Afghanistan was coming from within the Pakistan border.
A rocket landed on a residential hillside in the Khair Khana district of Kabul, Afghanistan, injuring two children.
A rocket landed in the Badam Bagh district of Kabul, Afghanistan, causing no damage or casualties.
After losing contact with its controllers, a German unmanned spy plane used by the ISAF parachuted to the ground, landing on the roof of a home in Kabul, Afghanistan.
In Khost, Major Mohammed Isa Khan , the deputy intelligence director of Khost province, Afghanistan, was assassinated in his car by gunman Hafez Elal . Elal tried to escape but was chased down by bodyguards. To avoid capture, he detonated explosives strapped to his body. Taliban spokesman Mohammed Saiful Adel claimed responsibility.
In Afghanistan, the Kabul Primary Court sentenced to death two former Taliban officials, Zia Ahmad and Abdul Nab , for the murder of aid-worker Bettina GoislardNovember 16, 2003. The trial took three hours and the judgment took twenty minutes. No witnesses to the crime were present at the trial. The men planned to appeal the decision.
A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a road near Asadabad, Afghanistan, as the vehicle of Kunar province governor Sayed Fazel Akbar was passing. The vehicle sustained minor damage, but no one was injured.
The Indian company Mahindra Defence Systems announced that it would provided 80 SUVs and 40 jeeps to the Afghan National Army over the next six months.
Near Orgo in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, an estimated 20 people were killed when fighting broke out between forces loyal to Orgo mayor Musadeq and a local militia commander Qari Ziauddin . Hundreds of civilians left their homes. Provincial officials sent hundreds of soldiers to the area to try to quell the conflict. A delegation was sent also from Kabul.
Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai fired Mohammad Aref Sarwari , the head of national security.
At an economic conference in New Delhi, India, Afghan deputy Agriculture Minister Mohammad Sharif met with Israeli deputy minister of Industry and Trade Mikhael Ratzon , requested assistance in technological innovations for agriculture and invite a team of Israeli experts to visit Afghanistan.
Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai appointed Mohammad Yusuf as governor of Farah province, and Azizullah Afzali as governor of Baghdis province. Karzai also named new police chiefs in five northern and central provinces. Gul Nabi Ahmadzai was appointed chief of training for the Afghan National Army.
Two rockets were fired on Kabul, Afghanistan. The first rocket struck a cemetery surrounded by houses and the second landed on a steep hillside nearby.
Former Afghan king Mohammad Zaher Shah was flown from Kabul to New Delhi, India for medical treatment. He was diagnosed with a minor blockage of his intestines and in stable condition.
At a border crossing, renegade warlord Bacha Khan Zadran and his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran were handed over from Pakistani to Afghan officials.
