Two villages and a fruit orchard were washed away by flash floods in the Khwahan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday. Ninety percent of agriculture Hasamuddin Niazi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said 100 domestic…
A medical camp has been set up in the landslide-hit Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province and so far 200 patients from surviving families have been treated, the public health director said on Sunday. The landslide on May…
KABUL National Institute of Music (ANIM) announced on Friday it would organise a charity concert on Sunday to raise money for the victims of the May landslide in Badakhshan province. Being organised in association with the Institut Français d’Afghanistan (IFA),…
Victims of Friday’s massive landslide in the Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province on Tuesday complained they had been delivered insufficient aid despite the passage of five days. But local officials claimed they had collected a large amount…
The government has stopped digging and rescue efforts to look for hundreds of people believed died after a massive mudslide buried their houses in northeastern Badakhshan province, but their relatives continued searching for the bodies on Monday. …
Afghans are angry at officials who posed for a photo with smiling faces on a red carpet near the mass grave for victims of a massive mudslide in the Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Local officials have…
At least 80,000 women were provided with vocational training in different fields in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official of women affairs department said Saturday. Livestock, handicraft and raising honey bees were among different fields that women were provided…
A Taliban commander has been killed and his two associates wounded in a clash with Afghan forces in northwestern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Qari Mafooz was killed, his two associates wounded and four others arrested…
Triggering by heavy rains, flash floods in northeastern Badakhshan province wreaked havoc and destroyed 45 more houses and hundreds of acres of crops, an official said on Monday. The floods, started a day before, swept away 45 houses…
FAIZABAD (PAJWOK): Ruling out presence of Taliban in the Karan-u-Minjan district of the northeastern Badakhshan province, officials acknowledged armed groups were in control of azure mine in the district. Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban’s spokesman, also claimed control of the rich azure…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The mining revenue of remote northeastern Badakhshan province increased to 29 million afghanis in 2013, an official said on Friday. The income was fetched by the lapis lazuli mine in Karan Wa Manjan district and the granite mine…
FAIZABAD (PAN): A large section of a mountain is slipping in the Tishkan district of northwestern Badakhshan province, threatening 300 homes, said residents, who appealed for urgent evacuation to safer places. Badakhshan, which is a mountainous province, often remains under…
FAIZABAD (PAN leaders involved in sending recruits to eastern Afghan provinces. Dr. Shah Wali Adib told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview the ISI was using new techniques to facilitate the infiltration of insurgents into mountainous parts of Nuristan…
FAIZABAD (PAN): An unknown man stabbed to death a doctor at his private clinic in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, prompting his colleagues at public sector hospitals to call an emergency meeting on Wednesday, officials said. The victim,…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
FAIZABAD (PAN prisoners, including a notorious figure, were shot dead after an attempted prison escape in northern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. A five-member group of armed insurgents riding motorcycles forced their way into the jail in Bashark…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Journalists in northeastern zone on Wednesday complained that officials in Badakhshan province were mistreating reporters and denying them access to information. A large number of journalists, who held a meeting in northeastern Kunduz province, strongly criticised what…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The Faizabad mayor’s son stabbed to death a construction engineer in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Syed Jahangir Karamat, the deputy police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victim, Ahmad Javed was on the…
FAIZABAD (PAN): More than a dozen children have died over the past one and a half month in northeastern Badakhshan’s Khwahan district due to insufficient medicines and lack of medical services, a public representative said on Sunday. Maulvi Abdulhai Tayebi,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Unidentified gunmen broke into a house overnight and shot dead two members of a family and injured a third in northeastern Badakhshan province, police said on Saturday. The incident took place late on Friday night in Sar Asyab…
KABUL. The epicenter of the 4.9 magnitude earthquake was in Badakhshan province near the border with Tajikistan at a depth of 114.9 kilometres, according to the United States Geological Survey. According to DawnNews, monitored here, Pakistan's local meteorological department put…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Afghan security personnel recaptured Karan Manjan district, inflicting casualties on insurgents in the northeastern province of Badakhshan on Sunday, local officials said. The district had been cleared of militants as a result of an operation by Afghan National…
FAIZABAD (PAN’s captivity by Afghan forces with cooperation from residents in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The six were taken hostage by insurgents on Thursday during an operation that left 20 security personnel…
KABUL): The acting interior minister on Friday denounced a deadly terrorist attack on police officials in northeastern Badakhshan province and ordered an investigation of the incident. At least 18 Afghan policemen, returning from an operation against the militants, were killed…
