Nasrin Sayeedi

Ghor Governor Hayatullah Mubarak says practical work will kick off soon on retaining walls to protect the historic Jam Minaret.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) will build 100 residential houses for flood-affected families in western Ghor province, an official said on Wednesday.

Local officials in Ghor have announced the establishment of a new telecommunications site in the provincial capital, providing services to 24,000 families.

Construction work has been launched on a mosque that will cost 11 million afghanis at the second brigade of 207th Al-Farooq Corps in western Ghor province.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) must fulfill its responsibility towards preserving the historic Jam Minaret in western Ghor province, the deputy information and culture minister said during his trip here.  

Blocked by floods, the Herat-Ghor highway has been re-opened for traffic after a four-month closure, local officials said on Tuesday.

A number of women in western Ghor province say financial woes and poverty have forced them to engage in hard labour, which has caused them lumbago.

Security forces destroyed 234 drug factories, seized thousands kilograms of different types of drugs and arrested 209 people during the past three months in western Ghor province, an official said on Tuesday.

The Ghor-Herat highway has reopened for traffic, an official announced on Saturday.

A team of climbers, drumming up support for flood-affected people, has scaled the highest peak of Siahkoh mountain in western Ghor province.

Security forces have destroyed twenty drug-producing factories in different parts of western Ghor province, an official said on Sunday.

At least 50 people, including women and children, have been killed and thousands of residential houses destroyed by heavy floods in western Ghor province, an official said on Saturday.