Features and Investigative Reports

Recent rainfall revives Afghanistan’s agriculture, renews hope for farmers

Experts and farmers in several provinces of the country have highlighted improvements in agriculture following recent rainfall, describing it as an opportunity to revive vegetation cover and reduce the impacts of drought.

Badghis pistachios hold high economic potential, need investment: Experts

Medical equipment purchased for Nimroz hospital after Pajhwok report

Herat youth launches mobile “Book Courier” to deliver books to homes

Khost remote areas residents demand maternity health services

Yusuf Mankal

20 Jun 2024 - 10:47

Some residents of remote areas in southeastern Khost province say they lack access to basic health services, including well-equipped maternity clinics.

Kandahar’s Panjawi residents demand health centres, schools

Amin Samsour

19 Jun 2024 - 12:53

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents of remote areas of Panjawi district in southern Kandahar province say they have been facing problems due to insufficient education and

Disho residents say direly need bridge on Khanshin river

Rizwanullah Bilal

19 Jun 2024 - 12:37

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Residents of Disho district of southern Helmand province cross the Khanshin river to reach Lashkargah City, the provincial capital, in a small boat

Salt wrongly extracted in Balkh, claim processing factories

Abdul Saboor Sirat

19 Jun 2024 - 12:02

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A number of salt processing factories in northern Balkh province claim salt is being extracted in a non-standard manner, urging the government to

Jawzjan silkworm growers seek government support

Raqiba Poya Aziz

19 Jun 2024 - 11:57

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Some people in northern Jawzjan province associated with silkworm rearing have asked the government and aid providing organizations to support them so that

No health centre, road in Kunar’s Shingish area

Qazafi Mal

18 Jun 2024 - 17:49

Residents of Shingish area in the Shegal district of eastern Kunar province complain about the absence of health and road facilities.

Lack of shelter our biggest problem: Returning refugees in Ghazni

Wahidullah Jumazada

18 Jun 2024 - 15:19

Afghan refugees who have returned to southern Ghazni province from Pakistan say they lack shelter and have been struggling with many other problems.

‘Reconstruction of all Jalalabad dilapidated roads kicks off’

Yousuf Zarifi

18 Jun 2024 - 13:13

The reconstruction work of all main and sub roads in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, have started at the cost of 273 million afs, an official has said.

‘Over 6,000 Jawzjan women employed in different fields’

Ruqia Poya Azizi

18 Jun 2024 - 11:12

A young lady in northern Jawzjan Province, who created a tailoring workshop and provided employment for more than a hundred women, says she is looking for the expansion of her work to employ hundreds more women.

‘Scabies preventable through observing personal, environmental hygiene’

Nasrin Sayedi

18 Jun 2024 - 10:32

Physicians and officials in western Ghor province have spoken about the increase in positive cases of scabies skin disease in the province and ask people to prevent the spread of this disease by observing personal and environmental hygiene.

Local hen farms meet half of eggs demand: Bakhtyani

Noorullah Zazai

18 Jun 2024 - 10:29

Around 600 laying hen farms have a daily production of one million eggs at the moment which has met more than half of the needs of the domestic market.

Samangan fruit seller man wonders how to please in-laws on Eid

Saifullah Karimi

17 Jun 2024 - 11:03

Abdul Hai, a 28-year-old man, who sells fruits and vegetables in northern Samangan province, says he cannot afford to buy gifts and visit his fiancée’s home on Eid after three years of their engagement, forget about marriage due to economic problems.

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