Abdul Sabour Seerat

More than 3,000 people suffering from cardiovascular disease have referred to the Abu Ali Sina Balkhi Zonal Hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif and hospitalized, hospital sources said on Sunday.

A member of a group of ‘miscreants’ was killed while throwing a hand grenade at a security post in northern Balkh province, an official said on Thursday.

Some residents of Tarlai area in the Charkant district of northern Balkh province have complained about access to clean drinking water and asked the government to address their problems.

Farmers and gardeners in northern Balkh province are expressing their frustration over what they say poor quality agricultural medicines imported into the country.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The government would purchase 38,000 tonnes of wheat from farmers nationwide and store them for emergency needs, an official said . . .

About 4,024 people contracted Tuberculosis (TB) and were hospitalized in northern Balkh province during the past one year, with 17 of the patients dying, an official said on Wednesday.

A public permanent exhibition centre named “Hilo Karki” has been constructer at a cost of two million afghanis in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, an official said Thursday.

The Isteqlal football team from Faryab province has lost its friendly match to Qarzliq squad from Uzbekistan’s Sarkhan Daria province.

Around 2,500 acres of grabbed state land in the Nahr-i-Shahi district of northern Balkh province has been retrieved, an official said on Friday.

The implementation of Sharia Law and Islamic Hijjab are the redlines of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and there would be no compromise on these points with anybody, an official says on Thursday.

The construction of the Uzbekistan-funded Imam Bukhari seminary, costing six million dollars, has begun in northern Balkh province, officials say.

Construction work has been launched on a health centre at a cost of more than seven million afghanis in northern Balkh province, an official announced on Tuesday.