KABUL (Pajhwok): Thousands of protesters in central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday shut the Kabul-Ghazni-Bamyan highway for traffic.
Residents of Nirkh, Jalrez and Behsud districts closed the busy highway with containers in the Ghaziabad area on the outskirts of the provincial capital.
They demanded their basic rights, the establishment of a university and change of the province’s name to Maidan Wardak according to the constitution.
An organiser of the protest, Mohammad Khalid Karimzai . . .
