Some youths in Afghanistan cannot get engaged due to high Walwar (an amount of money given to the bride by the groom also known as mehar) and marriage costs and some have to work in other countries for years to arrange these expenditures.
Zia Gul had been expelled from home by her husband with her five children after marrying another woman, now she has been dealing with many problems and says men should not do injustice with their women.
A number of students and teachers of public-sector schools in northern Baghlan province complain about a lack of textbooks over the past several years.
Residents of the newly created Chahi district in northern Balkh province say they lack access to basic services such as electricity, schools, hospital, roads and drinking water.
The municipality has executed 17 development projects worth 164 million afghanis in this capital city of southern Helmand province during the past one year, an official said on Wednesday.
The harvesting of the herbal plant Raf has expanded in central Daikundi province and the government generated over 24 million afs revenue last year, an official said has said.
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Some youths in central Bamyan province have complained about unfavorable traditions and the high cost of marriage and said old customs were
FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Officials in northeastern Badakhshan province have asked the people to hand over artifacts in their houses to the local museum for better preservation
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Refugee and Repatriation Department of eastern Nangarhar province is fully prepared to assist Afghan refugees to be expelled from Pakistan in the
Habibullah, 40, works as a cobbler at a corner of Aibak City, the capital of northern Samangan province, said that the Eid festival is not for less fortunate and vulnerable people because his biggest dream was to arrange livelihood for his family.
Reconstruction work of the water dam in Kharwar district of central Logar province has been resumed to bring under irrigation thousands of acres of barren land and benefit 13,000 families.
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