Nasrin Sayeedi

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.

At least 13 people have been killed and dozens of residential houses destroyed as a result of heavy flooding in western Ghor province, an official said on Saturday.

Two people were killed and a third injured when a flying-coach plunged into the Harirod River in western Ghor province, police said on Tuesday.

Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a man and five thieves have been arrested in western Ghor and Badghis provinces, police said on Wednesday.

A group of four foreign tourists has travelled to western Ghor province, local officials said on Sunday.

More than a dozen passengers stranded in snow in the Aqcha district of northern Jawzjan province have been rescued and the Kabul-Ghor highway reopened in western Ghor province.

The Kabul-Ghor highway has been closed for traffic due to heavy snowfall in western Ghor province, an official said on Monday.