Ahmad Farzam

Costly and long trips from remote parts of northeastern Badakhshan province to obtain Computerized National Identification Cards (CNICs) have become a big challenge for us, a number of local residents complain.

A three-year-old enmity between residents of two villages has come to an end in Kof-e-Ab district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday.

Local officials in northeastern Badakhshan province say restoration work has been completed on the tomb of Hakim Nasir Khesraw Balkhi in the Yamgan district.

Residents of Jurm district of northeastern Badakhshan province have initiated the construction of a small hydropower dam at their own expense.

At least 300 farmers in northeastern Badakhshan province have been arrested for voilatin the ban on poppy cultivation, an official said on Tuesday.

Thirty-one farmers have been arrested for cultivating opium poppies on their lands in northeastern Badakhshan province, security officials said on Sunday.

A six-kilometre road in the Yamgan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, damaged by recent flash floods, has been reconstructed with the cooperation of area people.

At least three children have been killed as a result of harsh weather in the Raghistan district of northern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday.

A lighting strike killed a man and a woman in northeastern Badakhshan province last night, and official said on Monday.

Construction work has been initiated on a building for the Emergency Ward at the provincial hospital in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official announced on Wednesday.

Six people, including children and women, have been killed as a result of a car’s plunge into a river in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday.

Some gardeners in northeastern Badakhshan province have complained about the shortage of standard cold stores for the protection of their yield and asked the government to address their problem by constructing cold stores.