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EBAK/SHEBRGHAN (Pajhwok): A leading drug smuggler escaped from a detention centre in northwestern Samangan province, an official said Monday. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Akram Bikzad, police

SHIBREGHAN (Pajhwok): A heavily pregnant woman, a policeman’s wife, was gang-raped by five men in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday, as the

HERAT CITY/SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): One policeman and two civilians were killed in separate incidents of violence in different parts of the country, officials said on

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped four employees of a construction company in northern Jawzjan province, the police chief said Wednesday.   Br. Gen. Faqir

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Five militants have been killed in an armed clash between two rebel groups in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, the

ZARANJ/SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): An official of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) has been killed and three others have been wounded in southwestern Nimroz province on

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): The women’s affairs director for southeastern Paktia province says she plans to reduce the amount of dowry with the help of agreements between

KABUL (Pajhwok): Over a hundred residents of northern Jawzjan province on Monday rallied against the recent publication of sacrilegious cartoons in a French weekly and

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Turkmenistan’s food aid for victims of natural disasters arrived in northern Jawzjan province on Saturday, an official said. Bazaar Bhai, Turkmenistan’s consul general,

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Dozens of prisoners in Jawzjan prison have been on hunger strike for 48 hours, claiming a delay by the authorities in deciding their

SHIBRGHAN (Pajhwok): A man who claimed to be expert in talisman has committed suicide because of economic compulsions in Aqcha district of northwestern Jawzjan province,

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Thousands of residents of northwestern Jawzjan province on Monday voiced their support to Afghan security forces and warned insurgents that locals would form