FAIZABAD (PAN): An overnight mountain slide left four people dead and nearly 20 others missing in the Zebak district of northwestern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. Nearly 34 houses were destroyed in the disaster that damaged crops over…
FAIZABAD (PAN): A two-day exhibition showcasing drawings, paintings, calligraphic works and handcrafts was inaugurated in the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province on Monday. The event has been arranged by the International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization (IPSO) in Faizabad to promote the…
FAIZABAD (PAN to launch search operations against insurgents in several districts, an official said on Sunday. Laced with modern weapons and military equipment, the 1700-member strong force was being deployed to insecure areas, the governor’s spokesman, Abdul Maroof Rasikh, told…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Two children have died of cholera in a village in northern Badakhshan province, with the infection spreading to another nearby village, amid official claims the outbreak has been controlled. The outbreak that first appeared in the mountainous village…
FAIZABAD (PAN officials said on Monday The girl died after she was infected with cholera in Derayam district, Public Health Director Noor Khawari said, confirming more than 1400 people had been daignosed postive. Of them 25 persons were taken to…
FAIZABAD/TALOQAN (PAN): Police have arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly molesting his three and a half years old niece in northern Badakhshan province, while another man stabbed his wife to death in northeastern Takhar, officials said on Tuesday. The alleged…
FAIZABAD (PAN fighters over the past one and a half month in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said. Local officials said the post was located in an area where ground and air forces could not reach…
JALALABAD (PAN): Construction work on a 10-kilometre road connecting eastern Nuristan province with northeastern Badakhshan was launched on Sunday, an official said. Nuristan Governor Tamim Nuristani told Pajhwok Afghan News the road construction formally began in Paroon. The road, half…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A woman was sentenced to death by the appellant court on the charge of killing husband in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Monday. Bibi Mashriqa was handed the capital punishment by the primary court,…
FAIZABAD (PAN airstrike in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Thursday. The individuals were planting landmines in the Bomal area when they came under attack from the air, the town's administrative chief, Dawlat Mohammad Khawar,…
FAIZABAD (PAN have seized 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in the wake of a clash in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Monday. Efforts were being made to recover the soldiers who were kidnapped three…
FAIZABAD (PAN, however, rejected the claim as baseless. Security forces conducted operation after they came under ambush in Warduj district, where four insurgent hideouts were pounded in Hamwarsayee, Dasht-i-Shola, Zaghak and Pul-i-Barabari areas, the governor’s spokesman said. Abdul Maroof Rasikh…
KABUL): Six policemen were killed in insurgency-linked violence in central Maidan Wardak and northern Badakhshan provinces, an official and a witness said on Tuesday. In Badakhshan, Taliban fighters attacked police posts in Ghani and Pul-i-Sarbala areas of the Warduj district…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Sixteen insurgents, including two commanders, were killed and nine others wounded in two clashes with security forces in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. Seven rebels were killed and nine wounded during an encounter on Sunday…
KUNDUZ (PAN Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) over violations of females’ rights, the body of a woman was found in the Kishim district of northeastern Badakshan province, an official said on Sunday. The blanket-draped body was dumped in the Sarai…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Sixteen Afghan soldiers and policemen have been killed by the insurgents in the Warduj district of remote northern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. The Taliban had seized 23 security personnel following an ambush on a joint…
FAIZABAD (PAN): An overnight massive landslide destroyed at least 20 homes, leaving as many residents injured in the Yawan district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday. The disaster roared through the Sholir village around 10:30pm last night, the…
FAIZABAD (PAN): At least 20 shops were completely gutted after a fire broke out at a marketplace in the provincial capital of northeastern Badakhshan province on Tuesday, causing massive losses to traders, an official said. Triggered by a gas cylinder…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Residents in eight districts remained cut off from Faizabad, the capital of northern Badakhshan province, due to road blockades triggered by continuous heavy snowfall across the province, an official said on Monday. Food and warm clothing were…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): Wood has been systematically cut for sale and use as fuel at homes in the mountains covered northern Badakhshan province, something contributing to its environmental destruction and deforestation. Badakhshan's plant cover is estimated at spread over 30,000…
FAIZABAD (PAN): A dozen of children have died of pneumonia, the single largest cause of death in children worldwide, in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Friday. The children aged between six months and four years lost their…
FAIZABAD (PAN militants in the Worduj district of remote northern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Col. Asadullah, the district police chief, acknowledged the death of four policemen in the assault. In a counterattack, several insurgents were killed, but…
KABUL): The new 103-kilometre Keshim toFaizabad highway in Badakhshan province that was inaugurated on Tuesday would slash travel time and improve security in the region. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID care purposes in the region. The United…
FAIZABAD (PAN fighters were killed, while 13 others, including two policemen, wounded during a clash with Taliban in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Wednesday. The clash erupted late Tuesday when a group of militants stormed police checkpoints in Shera…
