MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Journalists in northern Balkh province on Monday accused the Ministry of Information and Culture of trying to censor some media outlets. They also expressed grief over the death of five colleagues in a road tragedy in southern Ghazni province.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The US and Germany, promising continued assistance to Afghanistan, have stressed the need for accelerating the development and reconstruction process in the north.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): An oil tanker caught fire as a result of a collision with a car at the Hairatan dry port in northern Balkh province on Tuesday, an official said.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): A seven-member rebel group joined the government-initiated reconciliation programme in northern Balkh province, an official said on Tuesday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Five people were wounded when a bomb-rigged motorcycle went off in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, on Monday, an official said.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Former insurgents who on Sunday joined the peace process in northern Balkh province accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the spy service, of motivating illiterate youth into embarking on armed resistance against the Afghan government.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The Balkh provincial council chief on Wednesday rejected as irresponsible parliament’s position on naming a street in the northern province after slain Iranian diplomats.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Insecurity has displaced more than 2,000 families over the past two years in northern Balkh province, an official said on Sunday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Unidentified gunmen shot dead the principal of the Ahmad Shah Abdali Girls’ High School in the northern province of Balkh, officials said on Saturday.
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The insurgents’ morale has been busted in northern Afghanistan as a result of continued security operations, an official claimed on Wednesday.
