Features and Investigative Reports

KABUL (Pajhwok): Health experts say medical waste may appear harmless, but it can pose significant environmental and health hazard and can lead to serious diseases

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.

Some residents in Zaranj city, the capital of northwestern Nimroz province, complain about growing disorder in the city, but municipality say a discipline urban committee has been established to deal with encroachments.

Some Unani medicine practitioners claim they can successfully treat various ordinary and complicated diseases.

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.

A number of beekeepers in central Daikundi say the beekeeping industry has recently flourished and honey produced in the province has gained a special reputation for its high quality.

Some cupping practitioners have claimed that cupping is a traditional treatment method and could cure various diseases to which physicians also agreed if professionally executed otherwise the practice could pose risks.

Asafoetida Sellers and Exporters Union says as many as 840 tonnes of asafetida was exported from northern Balkh province this year, showing a two-fold surge compared to last year.

A number of fuel suppliers in northern Balkh province complain about a sluggish firewood and coal market and say they have lost most of their customers.

A woman in Herat has established a carpet-weaving workshop, providing jobs to 30 poor women in the western province.

In a small forge in the heart of western Herat city, the capital of western Herat province, 49-year-old Ahmad Shah is striving to keep the blacksmithing industry alive.

Residents of Sao Valley in Alingar district of eastern Laghman province say they have long been struggling with serious problems in the absence of telecom services.