Abdul Saboor Sirat

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): More than 6,000 acres of state land have been reclaimed in the Nahr-i-Shahi district of northern Balkh province . . .

Afghanistan exported 200,000 tonnes of cotton last year, including 10,000 tonnes from the northern Balkh province.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department of northern Balkh province has estimated this year’s grape harvests at 34,000 metric . . .

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): More than seven billion afghanis were distributed among about 650,000 widows, orphans and disabled people nationwide this year, an official . . .

Construction work has been launched on 40 residential houses for returning refugee families in Sholgara district of northern Balkh province, an official said on Saturday.

Four members of a family have been killed and a fifth injured as a result of a gas cylinder explosion in northern Balkh province, an official said on Thursday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Newly constructed buildings for five schools and four seminaries costing 152 million afghanis have been inaugurated in northern Balkh province. Acting . .

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Concreting a road has been completed at a cost of 22 million afghanis and the road put into service in northern Balkh province,

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Security forces seized 29 weapons and ammunitions in districts and the provincial capital of northern Balkh province during the past three months, an

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Rice crop has been cultivate on about 3,000 hectares of land, 10 percent up compared to last year, in northern Balkh province, officials

One person died and three others were injured in a traffic accident on the Balkh-Dawlat Abad district highway in northern Balkh province on Tuesday, police said.

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