Religion & Culture

Officials in central Bamyan province report a two-fold increase in the number of foreign tourists visiting the province and say more than 850 foreign tourists visited tourist attractions during the first six months of the current year.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): A local resident in northern Samangan province has handed over 12 historic items to the provincial Information and Cultural Affairs Department, an official

Pazhwak Foundation organised an academic seminar on “National thoughts and social ambitions” of late political, cultural and literary figure Abdul Rahman Pazhwak.

French-Afghan Journalist Mortaza Behboudi has been released after 284 days in detention in Kabul.

SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): Some writers and poets in northern Sar-i-Pul province say they cannot publish their books because of economic problems . . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some Afghan journalists in Iran have expressed their concerns over the Iranian authorities’ decisions to deport Afghan refugees without valid residence documents. Najaf

Eight Russian tourists, who travelled to northern Samangan province, say they are happy to visit historic and ancient places of Afghanistan.

As many as 84 seminaries in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province are being run by Afghan refugee clerics, says a caretaker minister.

BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): More than 115,000 tourists visited central Bamyan province during the past six months, creating work opportunities for thousands of local residents .

TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Historic Kafir Qala area in central Uruzgan province has been freed from usurpers and houses built there arbitrarily were demolished after a Pajhwok

KABUL (Pajhwok): The 37th International Islamic Unity Conference has been held in Tehran, the capital of Iran, from 1-3 October, according to the Ministry .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some print media outlets have resumed their operation after two years of the fall of the republic regime when majority of the media