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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) has distributed over 100 goats and some other equipment to hundreds of vulnerable families in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): World Food Programme (WFP) says it urgently needs 760 million US dollars to continue its operations in Afghanistan for next six months. WFP

Heavy snowfall and storms have shut the Salang highway for traffics, a Public Works Ministry official said on Monday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) says it issued more than 18,500 birth certificates and provided electronic and paper ID card .

Residents of Gerda Serai, Shwak and Waza Zadran districts travel to the provincial capital of southeastern Paktia province to apply for computerized national identity card (CNIC) as there is no such facility in their areas.

Two families have ended their 20 years enmity in the Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province as a result of mediation by tribal elders and religious scholars.

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Hundreds of families have been provided with animal feed and 120 farmers with improved quality wheat seed and chemical fertilizer in southern Helmand

KABUL (Pajhwok): US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West has said the two-day meeting on Afghanistan in Doha discussed economic needs, human rights and .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Nearly 7,880 vulnerable people in northern Jawzjan and eastern Laghman and Nangarhar provinces have been distributed food items and winter clothes, officials .

About 2,041 ghost disabled people and heirs of martyrs have been identified in central Logar province and removed from the list of beneficiaries, an official said on Wednesday.

Internally displaced families in northern Balkh province say they have no access to basic facilities of life and are facing many problems, asking the government to come to their rescue.

Some widows complain about hardships and economic problems in their lives while religious scholars say the government and every member of the society is responsible to help vulnerable families.