(Clockwise) Afghan soldiers inspect the remains of a vehicle at the scene of a bomb blast in Kandahar on Sunday. Members of a displaced family flee their village towards a nearby city in Kandahar. People carry the bodies of civilians killed during fighting between the Taliban and Afghan forces in Badakhshan province. Soldiers pause on a road at the front line of fighting near Badakhshan on Sunday.—AFP/AP • Governor’s aide killed in blast • Kabul says air force ready to take on insurgents • Taliban spokesman says most districts captured without a fight KANDAHAR: The Afghan Taliban have captured Panjwai, a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar, after fierce night-time fighting with government forces, officials said, just two days after US and Nato troops vacated their main Bagram Air Base near Kabul from where they led anti-Taliban operations for two decades.