At a roadblock in Zeri Noor, just outside of Wana, Pakistan, Pakistani troops killed 11 Afgan 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 Afganistan 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.
Before takeoff, a Louis Berger Group helicopter was attacked by gunfire in Thaloqan village in Kandahar province, Australian pilot and seriously injuring a U.S. woman. Taliban spokesmen took responsibility.
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.
The United States opened a provincial reconstruction team involving some 100 soldiers in Asadabad, 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 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.
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] (http://www.dawn.com/2004/02/13/top2.htm) 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 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.
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 Afghan Disarmament, Demobilisation and Re_Integration Program, headed by Milos Krsmanovic, launched a disarmament program in northern Afghanistan aimed at disarming some 2,000 militiamen under the command of generals Abdul Rashid Dostam and Atta Muhammad.
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, 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, 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.
Afghanistan's elections postponed to September, owing to insecurity and the UN's slow pace in registering voters.
Afghanistan's rival factions agree on a new constitution, overcoming weeks of discord to set the country on the path to free elections.
US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have driven back a large concentration of Taliban rebels in the south-east of the country after some of the fiercest fighting since the militia was overthrown almost two years ago.
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