FAIZABAD (PAN): Five workers of the Switzerland-based emergency relief and rehabilitation organisation, Medair, were released following an operation in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Saturday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Students staged a protest against foreign forces for detaining their schoolmates and teachers in northeastern Badakhashn province on Thursday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Four border policemen were killed and a fifth injured during a clash with Taliban insurgents in the Wardoj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Twenty-two people, including women and children, were killed by snow avalanches in Afghanistan's remote northeastern Badakhashan province, officials said on Tuesday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): The rescue operation to find survivors and assist victims of a massive snow avalanche ended on Thursday in northeastern Badakhshan province, after 40 dead bodies were retrieved from the snow, officials said.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Two senior civil society activists were beaten up after they criticised Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) members in northern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday.
FAIZABAD (PAN): A local Taliban commander killed one of his fighters and held captive three others on the suspicion of spying for the government in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Saturday.
CHAGHCHARAN (PAN): People of some districts in western Ghor province have no access to health services due to the lack of clinics, medicine and doctors.
FAIZABAD (PAN): Fifteen people were killed as a result of avalanches triggered by heavy snowfalls in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Monday.
