KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Fig fruit weighing 6,000 tons worth $34 million has so far been exported to India, Pakistan and other countries from southern Kandahar province over the past eight months. About 30,000 tons of figs – the third in value and...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): At least 25 Taliban fighters have been killed and many of their hideouts destroyed by Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police forces in Arighistan district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Wednesday...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwo k): People and officials say the population of southern Kandahar is above three million people, but the province’s share in the national budget is allocated based on statistics from ages ago. Civil society activist in Kandahar...
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Acting defense minister Asadullah Khalid and US and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller on Thursday attended a security meeting in southern Kandahar province, an official said.
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Despite a Ministry of Agriculture , Irrigation and Livestock (MoAIL) ban, chickens are still being smuggled into Afghanistan through different routes. Chicken imports and smuggling not only damage the domestic industry and...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): South Korea on Tuesday delivered equipment in aid to the Mirwais hospital in southern Kandahar province through the World Health Organization (WHO). Inaugurating a 14-bed ward for communicable diseases in the provincial...
KABUL (Pajhwok): A 22-month-old girl from Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province has been infected by the poliovirus. Marking this as the first case reported in 2019 in Afghanistan , a statement from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): At least 19 Taliban militants have been killed and 11 others wounded during an airstrike in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Monday. Aziz Ahmad Azizi, the governor’s spokesman, told...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission ( IEC ) head for southern Kandahar province has been sacked and introduced to the attorney’s office over alleged electoral offenses. Karimullah Stanikzai, head of the Independent Electoral...
KANDAHAR/LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Projects costing 179 million afghanis for the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province and about 30 million afghanis for Helmand’s Nawa district have been approved under the National Solidarity Program, officials said Wednesday.
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): The foundation stone of a girls hostel for the university in southern Kandahar province was laid on Wednesday by government officials, saying the six-storey structure would take up to 14 months to complete.
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Thousands of people on Monday performed the Salatul Istisqa to pray for rain in the drought hit southern Kandahar province. Hundreds of people from nearby districts also thronged the Eid Gah mosque in Kandahar City, the...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Intelligence forces detained a 30-member militant group which operated separately in three groups in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Monday. Arrested within a week, the detainees have been accused of planting...
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): The acting mayor on Sunday announced setting aside 622 million afghanis in the new year’s budget mostly for development activities in the capital of southern Kandahar province.
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The customs office of southern Kandahar province last fiscal year collected 7.82 billion afghanis, showing a 13.5 percent increase over the target. The revenue registered a 22.6 percent surge compared to last year’s income...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission ( IEC )’s regional office in southern Kandahar province was reopened on Monday, thanks the provincial council’s efforts. The IEC regional office was shut by protesting Wolesi Jirga candidates...
KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Drought has affected half of fruit orchards in Arghistan district of southern Kandahar province, shrinking the production of pomegranates this season, farmers say.
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The residents of southern Kandahar province say low quality medicines imported by local druggists, especially from Pakistan , have more side effects than advantage. Keeping medicines in unsuitable temperature, storing them...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Seven border police personnel and 16 Taliban insurgents have been killed as a result of clash in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. Aziz Ahmad Azizi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News...
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): At least five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed and six others wounded as a result of a Taliban attack in the Maiwand district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Wednesday. The overnight...