The official said the helicopter went down outside Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province.
At the regional training center near Kandahar city, it's clear the national police have a long way to go.
Mr. Jaan was away, on a trip to Kandahar city, when his wife, brother, brother-in-law and three-year-old nephew were killed.
Jan Mohammad, a tenant farmer outside Kandahar City, spends nine hours a day filtering cannabis leaves and then kneading the residue into clumps of hashish.
Also Monday, militants attacked a police vehicle just outside Kandahar city, killing two officers and wounding eight others, said provincial police chief Syed Agha Saqib.
It will be in places like Kandahar city, the country's second-biggest and the main fount of the Taliban, where the strategy will be most severely tested.
The bus began its journey in the capital of Helmand province and was scheduled to stop in Kandahar city, then travel north to Kabul, the Afghan capital, Razaq said.
Gates landed Thursday in the Afghan city of Kandahar, where he was met by Gen.
The southern city of Kandahar has seen a revival of Independence Day as a holiday in recent years.
One of the first stops on the journey was the sprawling air base outside the city of Kandahar.
They were traveling by bus from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar.
Over 100 people were killed in a suicide-bombing at a public dogfight in the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan .
In a series of co-ordinated attacks, including two suicide car bombings, on the southern Afghan city of Kandahar , the Taliban killed 35 people.
They apparently wanted to fly to the Afghan city of Kandahar.
At least three policemen have been killed and six injured after militants wearing police uniforms attacked a checkpoint in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
Meanwhile, leaders of Pakistani religious parties are reported to have cancelled a trip to the Taleban headquarters in the Afghan city of Kandahar because they have given up hope of negotiating an end to the crisis.
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, military spokesmen said.
One child was killed and another three were injured Wednesday morning when a grenade being used at an Afghan army training ground in the southern city of Kandahar exploded outside the military facility, said provincial spokesman Javeed Faisal.
This included an attempt last week to assassinate the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, in the southern city of Kandahar, and a massive car bomb that exploded near a busy market in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing more than 26 people.
The statement -- citing bombings in the capital of Kabul and Afghanistan's spiritual city of Kandahar, and the recent hijackings of an Indian plane to Kandahar and an Afghan plane to Britain -- said the Taliban had been a victim of terrorism.
His links with the country are deep: like all tribesmen living in the border region he was a dual citizen of Afghanistan and Pakistan and has apparently previously owned property in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the heartland of the Afghan Taliban.
In fact, we heard today that another moderate cleric, a very senior moderate cleric in the southern city of Kandahar was gunned down, and this is apparently part of a tactic that's intended to warn people off from cooperating with the government of President Hamid Karzai, warn people off from cooperating with the United States and NATO troops who are here.
Military positions around the city of Jalalabad and a Taleban military camp in Kandahar also came under attack, and strikes were reported on an airport near the western city of Herat.
Next would be Herat possibly the safest city in Afghanistan and Kandahar, with its 4, 000 American troops.
In particular, the increased tempo of operations in and around the Taliban strongholds of Kandahar, the country's second-biggest city, and the neighbouring southern province of Helmand are yielding results.
Karzai is not in Bonn, but near Kandahar, commanding forces fighting the Taliban and al Qaeda members around the city.
Meanwhile, the Marines based at Camp Rhino southwest of Kandahar have turned their attention to searching for remaining al Qaeda fighters after the city's fall.
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Many Kandaharis fear that the death of Hakim Jan will clear the way for the Taliban to move into his district near Kandahar, giving militants easier access to targets in Afghanistan's second largest city.
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