CHARIKAR with northern provinces, has been closed for traffic following heavy snowfalls, an official said on Monday. Gen. Rajab Ali, the highway maintenance commander, told

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and former President Hamid Karzai on Monday offered their condolences to the family and people of eastern Nangarhar province

KABUL on Monday rejected media reports that their leadership had given a go-ahead for preliminary peace negotiations with the Afghan government. The reports a day

SHARAN (Pajhwok): A six-member committee with representation of four religious scholars and two women has been formed to protect women rights in southeastern Paktika province,

KABUL’s role in the process, a survey said. The survey conducted by Pajhwok Afghan News interviewed 100 people including 25 women from all 34 provinces.

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Farmers claim local officials have allowed them to cultivate poppy crops in their fields in return for money in southern Helmand province, the

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Female members of the provincial council of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday said the bomb attack that killed their colleague Angiza Shinwari had

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): The long spell of draught forced farmers not to cultivate wheat on their 10,000 hectares of land in northern Jawzjan province, an official

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Officials said on Monday that a fresh offensive has been launched amid reports of foreign rebels’ presence in the northeastern Badakhshan province. The

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The provincial council on Monday hailed the ongoing “Operation Zulfikar” in southern Helmand province as a success and well-planned. The operation that was

KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of civil society activists and residents of the capital Kabul on Monday vehemently denounced violence against women and demanded the perpetrators

KUNDUZ CITY/MAIDAN SHAHR/QALAT (Pajhwok): Fifteen militants have been killed and 22 others wounded in clashes with security forces in different parts of the country, officials