Nearly a dozen Taliban militants involved in a number of attacks have been arrested in western Herat province, the governor said on Tuesday. Governor Sayed Abdul Wahid Qatali told a news conference at the provincial National Directorate…
A man killed his father and uncle -in-law in Adraskan district of western Herat province last night, an official said on Thursday. Abdul Ali Faqriyar, Adraskan district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the accused Sheikh Ahmad…
Neurologist Dr.NazifullahPayandeh has been released by his kidnappers after payment of ransom money in western Herat province, an official said on Saturday. Mayor Abdul Hakim Tamna told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dr.NazifullahPayandeh was released from captivity and…
Health officials in western Herat province on Thursday warned against surge in the number of positive coronavirus cases and deaths. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesperson for the Public Health Department, said if residents continued to ignore precautionary health…
Provincial Council (PC) members, civil society attacks in districts near the provincial capital. They said Taliban attacks in Karokh and Ghorian districts close to Herat City demonstrated the rebels were closing in on entrances to Herat City.…
A mother and her daughter have been found dead under mysterious circumstances in Adraskan district of western Herat province, an official said Friday. Jilani Farhad, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that initial investigation showed the…
Turkmenistan on Sunday said each partner country of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–India (TAPI) gas pipeline project would invest $200 million on the scheme. Wafa Hajjive, Turkmen deputy foreign minister, told a joint press conference with Herat Governor that TAPI…
Raisin yield has doubled in western Herat province, where farmers are concerned over lack of market for their produce, officials and growers said on Monday. The raisin production in Herat reached 20,000 tonnes in 2015, compared with…
During the first-ever saffron festival, officials on Wednesday said western Herat province would produce more than four tonnes of the crop this year. Over 50 saffron farmer unions and companies displayed their produce in different packagesat the…
The Taliban suffered heavy casualties as security forces repulsed a militant attack on the Shindand district of western Herat province, an official said on Monday. Ehsanullah Hayat the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News a group of…
At least 116 school students and teachers were poisoned in the Injil district of western Herat province on Monday morning, an official said. Injil district’s administrative Mohammad chief Naqib told Pajhwok Afghan News a number of students,…
Nearly a dozen people were killed and 18 others wounded when the office of a gas company caught fire in the capital of western Herat province, officials said on Tuesday. Ten children and a woman of a…
More than 200 prisoners have been on hunger strike at the central jail in western Herat province since Wednesday to protest what they alleged their mistreatment by jail officials. A number of inmates told Pajhwok Afghan News…
President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday fire the governor of western Herat province, directing the deputy governor to assume charge. In a decree, the president removed Fazlullah Wahidi as governor after a delegation presented him with a report…
