The United States government warned its citizens that the security situation in Afghanistan remained critical and that there was a general threat to all Americans visiting the nation.
An Afghan official was killed along with his bodyguard during an ambush by rebels in Helmand province, Afghanistan. At least one other bodyguard was wounded.
In Gujranwala, Pakistan local police picked up about thirty-five Afghan students (between the ages of six and fourteen) studying at a madressah in the Jamia Muhammadia on the Grand Trunk Road. Officials said the students were residing there without any passport, visa or legal documents which were violation of the Immigration Act. The students would be sent back to Afghanistan to obtain their complete documents and return back for their studies.
Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai formally declared his candidacy for the October 9 presidential elections. He dropped from his ticket Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim and replaced him with Ahmad Zia Massood . Karzai named Karim Khalili his choice for second vice president.
A bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle 35 miles east of Qalat , Afghanistan, injuring three American soldiers traveling in an armored Humvee.
Near central Kabul, Afghanistan, a wing of the Jamhuriat Hospital , being rebuilt by a Chinese-Afghan construction consortium, collapsed, killing four and injuring 26.
In the district of Mama Karez , Afghanistan, rebels attacked U.S. soldiers patrolling in a pickup truck. Three of the attackers were killed during the hour-long gunfight.
Two rebels on motorcycles opened fire on two pickup trucks carrying Afghan election workers in Lashkargah , Afghanistan.
Afghanistan freed 66 Pakistani prisoners caught fighting for the Taliban during the U.S.-led war in late 2001. Pakistan matched the move by releasing 34 Afghan prisoners.
An estimate 700 people spent nine hours demonstrating in front of government offices in Maydan Shahr , chanting for the release of Taliban leader Ghulam Mohammed Hotak .
Less than a kilometer from the headquarters of NATO-led peacekeepers, a rocket landed on a house in the Shashdarak section of Kabul, Afghanistan, killing a woman.mortally wounding a woman.
In the Spin Aghbarqa area in Zabul province, Afghanistan, rebels attacked a convoy of U.S. and Afghan National Army soldiers on patrol along the Kandahar-Kabul highway , triggering a shootout that killed an Afghan Army soldier and an insurgent.
The United Nations removed its 17-person staff via helicopter from Ghor province, Afghanistan after its election office there was attacked by protesters. The mob had been protesting a checkpoint conflict that took place in Chaghcharan in which government troops killed two local militiamen.
Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai signed a decree to get full cooperation from militia commanders with the Afghan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Program (DDR). The decree stated that those who participate in activities against the DDR process will be considered disloyal and rebellious and will face severe punishment.
The Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body announced that Afghanistan's presidential elections would take place on October 9, 2004, and parliamentary would take place elections in the Spring of 2005.
Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai and members of a U.N.-sponsored electoral commission met in Kabul, but failed to finalize on a date for the national and parliamentary elections.
Intelligence agents captured Taliban members Mullah Sakhi Dad Mujahid and Nisar Hamed in a raid on a compound in Shah Wali Kot , Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Mujahid was carrying a cell phone containing phone numbers of top level Taliban leaders, including founder Mohammed Omar.
In the Karteh Parwan district of Kabul, Afghanistan, local security forces arrested three Americans, including Jonathan Idema, and four Afghans after police raided an illegal jail.
Police in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan made a large drug seizure and then accused regional military commander Mohammad Atta of being involved in the illegal trade.
