Obaidullah Baidar

The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs says the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)’s economic strategy is founded on freeing Afghanistan from foreign dependency, reaching self-sufficiency by using the country’s existing capacities.

Residents of eastern Laghman province are urging the authorities to resume and complete the remaining construction work on the “Surkhakan National Park” in Qarghayi district.

Residents of Badpakh district in eastern Laghman province have urged the caretaker government to complete the remaining five percent work on an electricity supply project, which was 95 percent completed in the previous government.

Five people have been killed and six others injured in separate traffic accidents in central Logar and eastern Nuristan provinces, officials said on Thursday.

Residents of 12 villages in the Alingar district of eastern Laghman province are urgently calling for construction of a proper bridge over the Alingar River.

Three people have been killed and two others injured as a result of separate traffic accidents in eastern Laghman province, an official said on Sunday.

A child was killed and seven others were injured as a result of a traffic accident in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Saturday.

About 163 enmities, including decades-old disputes, have been resolved through the mediation of tribal elders and religious scholars in eastern Laghman province.

Scores of development projects have been executed at a cost of more than one billion afghanis in eastern Laghman province last year, an official announced on Tuesday.

Two people have been killed and seven others, including a woman, injured in a traffic accident on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in eastern Laghman province, an official said on Friday.

A new health centre has been constructed at a cost of 17 million afghanis in the Badpakh district of eastern Laghman province, an official announced on Wednesday.

Over 210 families who recently returned to the country have been handed over permanent residence in the provincial capital Mehtarlam and two districts of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Monday.