Security officials on Saturday claimed inflicting heavy casualties on Taliban in the battle to recapture the Baharak district of northeastern Badakhshan province. But the rebels rejected the claim. The insurgentsoverran Baharak on Friday evening, but the security personnel…
KABUL fighters and five security forces had been killed so far. In a statement, the MoI said the clearing operations entering a third day in Raghestan had resulted in the killing of more than 30 Taliban fighters including their top…
Suspected militants on Saturday kidnapped a district intelligence department head in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Provincial Deputy Police Chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News the National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief…
Five hundreds internally displaced families were assisted with food items in the northeastern province of Badakhshan on Wednesday, officials said. A total of 45 tonnes of food items were provided by the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA)…
Minister of Urban Development Syed Saadat Mansour Naderi on Sunday pledged the construction of homes for the people of northeastern Badakhshan province. During his visit to the remote restive province, the minister termed unemployment and lack of housing…
Afghan forces have captured a Taliban work to resume on key bridge destroyed by floods, an official said on Saturday. The governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Naveed Frotan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the rebels’ centre was captured during a midnight…
Emboldened by lingering insecurity, gunmen are digging up historical sites to plunder the national wealth in parts of remote northeastern Badakhshan province -- home to the region’s rich cultural heritage and a key link between China and South…
Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled Dr. Nasrin Oryakhel on Sunday said thousands of Afghan labourers would be sent to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in near future to arrest soaring unemployment in the country. Oryakhel, who visited northeastern Badakhshan province,…
Identified gunmen shot dead a policeman and his wife in the Shuhada district in northern Badakhshan province, police said on Sunday. Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari, provincial police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that unidentified gunmen barged in the…
Taliban) in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Thursday. An intelligence official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News Col. Anwar Baig, the district intelligence chief, was shot dead on his way home. Soon after…
KABUL Protection Department in northeastern Badakhshan province was inaugurated on Monday, when construction work a road kicked off in Nimroz province, officials said. The three-storey building in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, had been designed in Kabul in line with…
Security forces on Saturday foiled a possible rocket attack on Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, an intelligence official said. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) official, who wished anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News 23 BM-1 rockets…
The flood affected families of Kofab district in northern Badakhshan received flood assistance but vulnerable families in eastern Kunar and northern Panjshir demanded immediate aid, officials said on Thursday. At least six persons were killed, 54 houses,…
At least two policemen were killed during hours-long clashes with insurgents before retreating from their posts in Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, a senior official said on Monday. Public Order Police Commander Gen. Rahmanuddin Rahman, who paid…
The provincial council chief of northern Badakhshan province on Saturday urged President Ashraf Ghani to deploy more troops and launch decisive anti-state elements offensive to purge the province of insurgents. Addressing a gathering which was attended by the…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Friday said that cleanup offensive would be initiated in the restive Juram and Warduj districts of northeastern Badakhshan province to purge the area of anti-state elements. MoI spokesman Sadiq Sadiqi said this…
Four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members, including their commander and three militants have been killed during a clash in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Thursday. The incident took place in Yomal village of Warduj district last evening,…
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers that were taken hostage in the Jurm district of northeastern Badakhshan have been released, officials said on Tuesday. Acting Governor Shah Wali Adib told Pajhwok Afghan News seven soldiers had gone missing…
Twenty-seven insurgents, including four foreign fighters, have been killed as a result of intense gun fighting in the Jurm district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said Saturday. Lt. Sakhi Dad Haidari, a senior security official, told Pajhwok Afghan…
The provincial council chief on Tuesday claimed the self-styled Islamic State group had launched efforts to find a foothold in northeastern Badakhshan province and asked the government to take timely action against the new emerging threat. Abdullah Naji…
The acting governor on Wednesday said drug mafia groups encouraged poverty-stricken farmers to cultivate poppy crops in their fields in northeastern Badakhshan province. Shah Waliullah Adeeb said this while addressing an anti-narcotics conference in Faizabad, the provincial capital.…
Foreign militants beheaded two policemen after kidnapping them in northeastern Badakhshan province, where three Taliban insurgents joined the peace process, the acting governor said on Wednesday. Shah Wali Adeeb told Pajhwok Afghan News the two public order police…
Two militants were killed and three others injured in the Baharak district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Intelligence officer Col. Sakhidad Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants assaulted a security check-post in the…
KABUL language by Danish Karokhail, editor-in-chief of Pajhwok Afghan News, in Kabul. The book, containing 316 pages and 14 chapters, is dedicated to the three fallen Pajhwok’s reporters -- Abdul Samad Rohani, Janullah Hashemzada and Omid Khpalwak. Habibullah Rafi, renowned…
