Abdul Sabour Seerat

At least 36 people have contracted Congo fever, with three losing their lives, in northern Balkh province last month.

Wheat production in northern Balkh province has increased to 235,000 tonnes this year, showing a two-fold surge, local officials said on Sunday.

More than 7,500 people donated over three million milliliters of blood to the Abu Ali Sina hospital’s blood bank during the past six months in northern Balkh province, officials said Thursday.

A boy who went missing for eight years back has been found in Balkh province and reunited with his family in the Arghistan district of Kandahar.

Two armed robbers have been killed in a clash with security forces in northern Balkh province.

Following a reduction in rail freight tariffs for Afghanistan by Uzbekistan, a number of Balkh traders have asked the caretaker government to cut customs and transport duties on exports.

About 30 suicide and five kidnapping incidents took place in northern Balkh province during the past one year, police said on Thursday.

The Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Department of northern Balkh province says strawberry crop is cultivated on 75 acres of land in the province, which is estimated to produce 225 tons of the fruit this year.

Residents of the Kishindi district of northern Balkh province say they have been deprived of elemental facilities like electricity, health centres, paved roads and telecom services.

The second shipment of Iran’s humanitarian aid for flood-affected people has arrived in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, officials said on Sunday.

Around 200 flour mills operating in Afghanistan now, and the country has almost achieved self-reliance in flour production, flour mill owners said on Wednesday.

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a doctor and injured his brother in Mazar-i-Sharif City, the capital of northern Balkh province.