FAIZABAD (PAN, of the Switzerland-based emergency relief and rehabilitation organisation, Medair, were abducted in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Wednesday. The five people, including three Afghan men, were kidnapped by armed men in the Shalkhazar village of…
KABUL): Five insurgents and two police commanders were killed, while 21 insurgents were detained in various security operations, said officials on Sunday. The operations were conducted jointly by Afghan and foreign troops in Nangarhar, Kunduz, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Ghazni,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): At least 123 families have been displaced by landslides as heavy snow started melting in the Zibak district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Wednesday. The Gharib village is at the risk of further landslides, with residents…
FAIZABAD (PAN insurgents in the Wardoj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. The rebels attacked a police post in the Tirgaran village late on Monday night, deputy police chief Col. Sakhidad Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News.…
FAIZABAD (PAN and children, were killed and 20 houses damaged by snow avalanches in the Nasi district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Sunday. The avalanches hit Monikh, Rio and Shorian villages on Friday, increasing the toll to 18,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The bodies of 14 people buried under a massive snow avalanche were recovered while six others are still missing in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The avalanche happened in a remote village of Nasi district…
FAIZABAD (PAN's remote northeastern Badakhashan province, officials said on Tuesday. According to initial reports, 21 people died in the Irak village of Wakhan district on Wednesday night, provincial head of the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), Sanaullah Amiri, told…
KABUL said on Saturday. In a statement, Michael Keating expressed his sympathy to the families of 50 dead Afghans and four others injured in the March 4 avalanche that buried an entire village of 199 people in the Shaki district.…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Three suspected insurgents were arrested with explosives and suicide jackets during an operation by foreign troops in Faizabad, the capital of northern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday. The operation was conducted on the house of Abdul Ghafor…
KABUL said on Thursday. One of the leaders, responsible for suicide bombings in Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces, was wounded during the offensive and was being treated, the alliance said in a statement. The second leader was a bomb-making expert and…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The rescue operation to find survivors and assist victims of a massive snow avalanche ended on Thursday in northeastern Badakhshan province, after 40 dead bodies were retrieved from the snow, officials said. The massive avalanche in Shiki district…
KABUL): The United States on Wednesday offered condolences to the families of those lost in a tragic avalanche in the northern province of Badakhshan. Scores of villagers were killed and the homes of many more destroyed when the massive…
FAIZABAD (PAN): At least 37 people were killed after an entire village was buried under a massive snow avalanche in northern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday. Another six people were rescued in injured condition after the disaster struck the…
FAIZABADA (PAN on Saturday said that doctors along with tonnes of medicines had reached northern Badakhshan province to deal with pneumonia cases there. Local officials have given contradictory casualty figures for children suffering from the disease in the remote province,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Asphalting of a five-kilometre road was completed by locals in the Tishkan district of northern Badakhshan province, officials said on Sunday. Muhammad Azim Musavi, the town’s administrative head, told Pajhwok Afghan News residents of 70 villages took two…
FAIZABAD (PAN (lower house of parliament) members in northern Badakhshan province, officials said on Thursday. The incident took place late on Wednesday during a meeting between civil society officials and some parliamentarians in Faizabad, the provincial capital, the deputy…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Avalanches killed four people and injured eight others in the rugged northeastern province of Badakhshan, an official said on Sunday. The first avalanche, triggered by days of snowfall, hit the Khonilar village of Raghistan district, killing three people,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The security responsibility for Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, and eight districts was handed over to Afghan forces at a special ceremony on Tuesday. Security Transition Commission Chairman Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Ground Forces Commander at Ministry…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Fourteen people trapped in avalanches triggered by heavy snow were rescued and link roads in Zibak and Wakhan districts reopened in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said on Tuesday. A rescue team of the Agha Khan Foundation (AKF) and…
FAIZABAD (PAN, Irrigation and Livestock must be disqualified by the parliament as he had not paid attention to provide food stuff to drought affected families of the province. The Ministry had not sent quota of the affected families of the…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Juma Khan, a resident of Khwahan district in northeastern Badakhshan province, says "the ongoing drought and snowfall have destroyed all of his property, forcing him to hand over his six children to the district chief for survival. Speaking…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Forty percent among 530,000 children in the northeastern Badakhshan province have been forced into hard labour, a survey conducted by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed. As many as 300 children in Wakhan, Zibak, Eshkasham, Yaftil,…
FAIZABAD (PAN): A newly-constructed building for the water supply department was inaugurated in northern Badakhshan province on Saturday, officials said. Funded by the Ministry of Water and Energy, the building cost $800,000 and took two and a half years to…
FAIZABAD (PAN): More than 10,000 drought-affected families in northeastern Badakhshan province were given food, seeds and animal feed on Saturday, officials said. The items were distributed to victims from 13 districts of the province, Mohammad Salim Kunduzi, the deputy agriculture…
