Abdul Sabour Seerat

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.

About 15,000 people have been employed with financial support of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in northern Balkh province, an official said on Wednesday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Iranian Consul General Hameed Raza Ahmadi has said that Tehran had cordial ties with the acting Afghan government and wanted to expand these ties.

A man allegedly shot dead four members of his family in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, an official said on Saturday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Ninety-five thousand people in northern Balkh province have been addicted to different types of drugs in which 3000 have been provided with treatment this year, an official said on Sunday.

Police have arrested an Uzbek national with hundreds of bottles of alcohol in northern Balkh province, an official said on Sunday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Iranian airline Yazd Air has started Tehran-Mazar-i-Sharif flights, according to Iranian Consulate General in Mazar-i-Sharif on Sunday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Some residents in northern Balkh province have complained against air pollution and asked the government to take steps in this regard.

Police neutralized explosives they seized in in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, an official said on Monday.

After Pajhwok Afghan News published a report on cipher-based prescriptions in northern Balkh province, officials say they have initiated serious measures to prevent the practice.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The price of Konzal cooking oil has jumped unprecedentedly due to its export to the foreign countries, according to some producers of this variety of cooking oil on Wednesday.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Three hundred bottles of alcoholic have been recovered and confiscated by the 209 Al Fath Corps personnel in Mazar-i-Sharif , the capital of northern Balkh province, security officials said on Saturday.