Over 250 women in the Nahr-i-Shahi district of northern Balkh province have completed tailoring and carpet weaving training, an official said on Sunday.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has nominated Azmatullah Umarzai for the one day international player of the year’s award.

The shortage of a proper market for the sale of handicraft have made the producers of these items worried despite growing consumers interest and expansion of the handicraft sector in the province.

Thousands of people in the Dahna Ghori, Dushi and Burka districts have no access to drinking water and urged government to pay serious attention to their problems.

Hundreds of residents in southeastern Khost province have protested against airstrikes by Pakistani military in the Barmal district of neighbouring Paktika province and demanded the international community to impose sanctions on Pakistan

The first shipment of Chinese goods has arrived in the Rozung Station in Western Herat province through the Iranian railway track, an official said on Friday.

Pakistan’s army has warned against more attack if the caretaker Afghan government continued to provide shelter to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other terrorist groups, a claim that Afghan authorities repeatedly refused.

The Asan Khedmat branches to be opened in Nangarhar, Herat, Balkh and Helmand provinces, a statement has said.

The rehabilitation of 17 schools at a cost of 14 million afs has been completed in Ghazni City, the capital of southern Ghazni province, and in some districts, an official said.

Deputy Acting Prime Minister Mawlavi Abadul Kabir has stressed peace and unity and warned against serious consequences for the side that fueled violence, a statement said on Friday.

At least 20 children have been killed in airstrikes by Pakistani military near the border in eastern Afghanistan, the UN Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said.

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh died at the age of 92 late on Thursday evening at a hospital in New Delhi, according to Indian media on Friday.