Afghan taekwondo player Farzad Mansouri has secured second place and won a silver medal by defeating his French and Dutch opponents in the Open Taekwondo Championships held in Belgium.
Twenty-one Afghan nationals, recently freed from prisons in Pakistan, have returned to Afghanistan, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) said on Monday.
The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) has signed a cooperation agreement valued at over $694,000 with a non-governmental organization (NGO).
Construction work has been launched on a six-kilometre road costing 2.5 million afghanis provided by residents in central Bamyan province, an official said on Monday.
The City Primary Court has sentenced 18 people to jail terms and lashes for various offenses in northeastern Khost province, the court said in a statement on Monday.