BAMYAN (PAN): The closure of Salang Pass, the strategic highway connecting northern Afghanistan and capital Kabul, has become an expensive affair, as locals are forced to pay colossal fare to travel via an alternative route.
ISLAMABAD (PAN): A suicide bomber armed with explosives-laden belt killed a senior police officer and wounded his four colleagues in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): The Salang Pass, linking the capital Kabul with northern Afghanistan, on Thursday reopened for traffic, five days after a heavy snowstorm closed the key highway's northern and southern parts, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): All roads in western Ghor province and in a number of districts in central Panjsher and Parwan provinces have been blocked by days of heavy snowfall, officials said on Wednesday.
JALALABAD (PAN): New snow avalanches have blocked roads connecting Kamdesh and Bargmatal districts with the provincial capital, Paroon, in eastern Nuristan province, officials said on Tuesday.
CHARIKAR (PAN): Fresh snowstorm has once again led to the closure of a strategic mountain pass, connecting Kabul with the northern provinces, officials said today.
CHAGHCHARAN (PAN): Recent heavy snowfall has crippled passage to several districts in western Ghor province but official figures on the number of roads cleared so far appears contradicting.
KABUL (PAN): Relief workers stepped up search operations for 145 villagers, many believed dead, after the massive avalanche in northern Badakhshan province last week, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan said on Saturday.
