NEILI (Pajhwok): Orchard owners in Daikundi say almonds have proved resilient to water shortages and remain the only crop sustaining local livelihoods, even as recent droughts have severely affected agriculture in the central province.

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Sixteen couples tied the knot at a mass wedding ceremony in southern Ghazni province to avoid unnecessary and excessive expenses.

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Reconstruction of a 76-kilometer portion of the Kabul-Gardez highway has been launched at a cost of about 17 million afghanis, local officials in central Logar province said on Tuesday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed and 13 others injured in a suicide car bombing and gun attack on a military camp in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan district, according to reports.

KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan has temporarily reopened the Spin Boldak-Chaman crossing for returning Afghans, an official in southern Kandahar province said on Friday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): A truck carrying nomads fell into a ravine in the Swat region of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, leaving at least 15 people dead and eight others injured, reports say.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Polio Free Afghanistan Foundation says that a polio vaccination campaign will begin tomorrow in Kunar, Nuristan and Laghman provinces.

KABUL (Pajhwok): United States President Donald Trump says he and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet again for talks on the war in Ukraine.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Minister of Water and Energy Mullah Abdul Latif Mansoor has participated in the Energy Week International Forum in Russia.

KABUL (Pajhwok): An Iranian delegation during a meeting with the Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriations has said 200,000 work visas will be issued to Afghans to resolve the issue of illegal residence.

KABUL (Pajhwok): European Union special representative for Afghanistan Gilles Bertrand has said the recent clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan have affected the humanitarian situation. He said this year the EU allocated approximately 188 million euros to assist Afghans.

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): A journalist from the Paktia National Radio Television branch has been killed and another wounded in firing by Pakistani forces near the Durand Line in southeastern Khost province, a local official said on Wednesday.