MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Preparations for a counterinsurgency offensive have been made and the fighters would not be given the allowed to fuel insecurity in any part of country, a military official said on Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Javed Saleem,...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A widow apiculturist from eastern Nangarhar province, besides overcoming her economic woes, has offered employment opportunities for several men. Sherino -- hailing from the Sawakai district of neighbouring Kunar province --...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Amidst rising incidents of domestic tension, the only female prosecutor in southern Kandahar province is investigating cases of violence against women . Zainab Faiz, 28, serving as prosecutor for the past two years, has...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A top American military commander has asked Afghanistan ’s political leaders not to let politics undermine the security situation in the country. “We’re in this together. We’re fighting terrorism together and everyone wants a...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan Hospital officials say the capacity of orthopedic and joints surgeries at the hospital have increased by double accounted for more than 2,000 surgeries each month. Dr. Ahmad Gul Ayubi, hospital director...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A 29-year-old woman ended up in the shelter house of capital Kabul just nine months after her marriage to escape abuse and torture at husband’s and paternal homes.
KABUL (Pajhwok): An Afghan youth, who invented a solar water heater, claimed on Sunday he had received threats over the phone from unknown people after his invention. Wali Jan Sherzad, 33, a resident of Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province...
PARON (Pajhwok): The Provincial Council (PC) head for eastern Nuristan province says some people have swollen militant ranks due to the central government’s inattention to their problems. Eng. Saeedullah Paendazoy also hit out at the provincial...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reaffirmed its commitment to serving the people of Afghanistan in future despite going through a traumatic 2017. Monica Zanarelli, head of ICRC delegation in Afghanistan, told...
HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The existing border disputed between Afghanistan and Iran would be taken to the UN, an official in western Herat province said on Wednesday. Border and Tribal Affairs Director Nazir Ahmad Haidarzada told Pajhwok Afghan News the...
TEHRAN (Pajhwok): In a veiled reference to Pakistan , the Afghan ambassador in Iran has said regional countries should not categorize terrorist groups into ‘bad’ and ‘good’, stressing these groups are only bad. Dr. Nasir Ahmad Noor, the Afghan envoy...
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): A visiting High Peace Council (HPC) delegation on Tuesday said the government would agree to every mechanism the Taliban suggest for reviving the stalled peace talks to find a negotiated end to the conflict in Afghanistan .
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) officials in the southern region say poverty, joblessness, parental inattention and other factors have contributed to an increase in sexual harassment of children in...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The owner of a Kabul-based bandage manufacturing factory, known as ‘Tota,’ has urged capitalists to invest in bandage production because his factory meets only 10 percent of the strip’s demand. Addressing entrepreneurs, Younus Wiyar...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Pakistan has agreed to extending the stay of Afghan refugees by one more year in the country, a Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) official said on Wednesday.
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Urban residents of southern Kandahar province owe 70 million afghanis in unpaid water bills to the provincial Water Supply and Canalization Department, an official said on Wednesday. Eng. Mohammad Nader Kakar, head of...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The founder of Moraa Educational Complex (MEC) has complained against the imposition of heavy taxes, interference from powerful individuals and a lack of government attention, and warned of apossible collapse of the institutionif...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Mines and petroleum director for Nangarhar province on Saturday said they could not supervise natural resources in the eastern province due to insecurity. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Eng. Sayed Saleh...