The shortage of food items has made the lives of residents of Pamir district of northeastern Badakhshan province miserable as landslides and flash floods caused by heavy rains have blocked roads leading to the town. Residents of the…
A woman and a teenage girl have been killed by an avalanche in the Kofab district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. Syed Abdullah Humayun Dehqan, head of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA),…
A 30-room building is being constructed on the university campus in northeastern Badakhshan University to accommodate eighty percent students, an official said on Monday. Construction of the building, a 43 million afghanis project, was recently launched on one-fourth…
As many as 634 posts in the education department of northeastern Badakhshan province have been occupied by acting officials, a probe team has found. The investigative delegation from the Ministry of Education (MoE) said the education department of…
Three people, including a woman, have been brutally killed by a local illegal commander in Karan wa Manjan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Ghafori, told Pajhwok…
Two million locally produced saplings would be planted in northern Badakhshan province as part of the spring tree plantation campaign kicked off on Sunday. Agriculture director Mohammad Alam Alami, who inaugurated the tree plantation drive, said they would…
Local officials say the ongoing insecurity in northern Badakhshan province has badly affected business activities and discouraged investments. Abdul Haseeb Daqiq, an official at the provincial economy department, estimated at $214 million investments made in the province in…
Five Taliban militants were killed and 10 others wounded during clashes with security forces in Baharak district of northeastern Badakhshan province, while the rebels claimed killing 17 Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel. The governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Navid Frotan,…
At least three militants have been killed during ongoing clashes with Afghan forces in Baharak district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Deputy police chief, Col. Sakhidad Haideri, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday said 23 militants have been killed and five others wounded during an operation in Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province. A statement from the MoI received by Pajhwok Afghan News said…
President’s special representative for reforms and good governance Ahmad Zia Massoud on Saturday said the Afghan security forces needed nationwide people’s support in battling insurgents. Massoud said this while addressing a gathering of more than 2000 people including…
A man gunned down a woman before joining militants in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday. The unidentified gunman entered the house of Bibi Samar Gul on Wednesday night, shot her dead and then joined militants in…
At least 35 areas in northeastern Badakhshan province are prone to natural disasters amid troubles residents face in the wake of border closure with neighbouring Tajikistan, officials said on Wednesday. Sayed Abdullah Dehqan, Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority…
The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on Thursday said Tajikistan had decided to temporarily close its consulates in northern Kunduz and northeastern Badakhshan provinces. The Tajikistan Embassy in Kabul informed the MoFA through a letter that the…
A drug laboratory has been destroyed and more than a tonne of heroin seized during an operation by the National Interdiction UnitInterior in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Wednesday. The Ministry of Interior unit also…
Three policemen have been killed in separate attacks in northern Faryab Badakhshan provinces, officials said on Thursday. The Taliban killed two policemen on the Qaisar-Ghormach highway and took away their weapons, the Qaisar district chief, Rahmatullah Qaisari,told Pajhwok…
Local officials say Taliban militants have started recruiting children to their ranks and are training them in military techniques in northeastern Badakhshan province. A provincial council member claimed 70 percent of children were used as fighters in areas…
The Taliban hanged a man after an open trial in northeastern Badakhshan for his allegedly killing his uncle, an official said on Monday. The governor’s spokesman, Navid Farotan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victim, Raza Shah, was hanged…
Women from northeastern Badakhshan province on Saturday asked the government to find a proper market for their handicrafts and support the profession. Different hand-made products like carpets, metal items, embroidered clothes, pots, copper ware, ornaments and stone articles…
A moderate earthquake jolted parts of Afghanistan on Sunday night, destroying a number of houses in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. Measuring 5.9 on the open-ended Richter scale, the quake, which struck at around 10:45pm,…
The Taliban have blocked water supply to thousands of acres of farmland from a key canal in Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province and have deactivated five small dams depriving hundreds of families of electricity. The Taliban captured…
Heavy snowfall has blocked roads connecting nine districts with the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Thursday. Badakhshan which has 28 districts is one of impassable provinces of the country. It shares borders with Tajikistan,…
The Taliban have released nine policemen they held captive in Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday. Col. Amanullah, a senior military official, said the release happened by mediation of local elders. The policemen…
The regional office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday strongly condemned the killing of one pregnant woman and wounding of another. Deputy police chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari, said the Taliban stormed the house…
