Bumpy roads, inactive telecommunication networks and lack of healthcare services are problems the residents of Shahr-i-Bozorg district of northeastern Badakhshan province have long been facing. Pajhwok Afghan News reporter visited Shahr-i-Bozorg district and talked with some residents about…
The Information and Culture Department of northeastern Badakhshan province says historical monuments were greatly damaged due to the past wars and natural disasters. Mahazuddin Ahmadi, director of information and culture, who traveled to Yamgan district to inspect historic…
A woman allegedly ended her life by eating rat poison due to domestic violence in northeastern Badakhshan province, police said on Friday. Badakhshan police spokesman Ihsanullah Kamkar told Pajhwok Afghan News that Zubidah, a resident of the fifth…
Residents of two villages have agreed to end their 20-year-old conflict in Khash district of northeastern Badakhshan province, thanks to mediation of a government delegation. The residents of Kaj Gardan and Sar Lola villages had been in a…
A civilian was killed and some security personnel injured after the vehicle they were travelling in veered off the road and flipped over in Kishim district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. Maazuddin Ahmadi, Badakhshan…
Two gold panners are thought to have died after drowning in the Kokcha river in northeastern Badakhshan province on Monday, an official said. Mahazuddin Ahmadi, head of the Information and Culture department, said the incident took place this…
A would-be suicide bomber was identified and shot dead before he could detonate explosives strapped to his body in the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province on Saturday, an official said. Mahazuddin Ahmadi, director of information and culture, said…
Snow continued to lash northeastern Badakhshan province for a third consecutive day on Friday, cutting off more than 10 districts from the provincial capital, Faizabad. The heavy snowfall has closed roads connecting Raghistan, Kohistan, Yawan, Nusi, Shekay, Maimi,…
Two individuals have been detained in connection with smuggling 400 kilograms of a chemical used in the manufacture of illicit drugs in northeastern Badakhshan province. The media office at the police headquarters told Pajhwok Afghan News the smugglers…
Biometric registration process of martyrs’ heirs and disabled persons has started in northeastern Badakhshan to ensure transparency in the distribution of their pensions, an official said on Saturday. The Governor Office Chief of Staff Qazi Khairullah Hakimi during…
At least six people, including women and children, were killed and three others wounded after their vehicle plunged into a river in northeastern Badakhshan province on Saturday. Mahazuddin Ahmadzai, director of information and culture, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
A miner was rescued on Saturday after remaining trapped under rubble of a landslide for 40 hours in Yawan district of northeastern Badakhshan province. A number of people were trapped inside a gold mine due to a landslide…
A gathering in northeastern Badakhshan province has called for peaceful coexistence among people, linking decades of war in the country to different kinds of biases. The Information and Culture Department organised the gathering, which was attended by religious…
At least six members of a family have been killed and two others wounded due to roof collapse in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. Mahazuddin Ahmadi, director of information and culture, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Some female students of the university in Badakhshan province staged a protest demonstration after officials of the vice and virtue department did not allow them to enter the campus without wearing burqa or niqab. One of the students…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has rejected the fall of Shikai district of northeastern Badakhshan province to the armed opponents as claimed in social media. Earlier, the ‘National Resistance Front’ claimed capturing Shikai district and arresting its administrative…
The Public Health Directorate of northeastern Badakhshan province has registered 300 severe malnutrition cases during the last four months, when ten malnourished children died, officials said Thursday. Doctor Ghulam Rabbani Mushtaq, a pediatrician at the Badakhshan provincial hospital,…
Three people, including a woman and a child, were killed when their vehicle plunged into Kokcha River in northeastern Badakhshan province, according to a statement on Monday.
A brother has killed his sister in eastern Badakhshan province due to family dispute, an official said on Tuesday.
An earthquake of 4.8 magnitude of jolted Eastern Badakhshan Province on Wednesday morning.
Nine hundred less fortunate families in the Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province received cash assistance, an official said on Monday.
Local officials in northeastern Badakhshan province on Sunday marking the World Tuberculosis Day said that over 1,000 cases of TB were registered in the province in the last one year. Dr. Qutbuddin Baromand, in charge of TB section…
Security officials in northeastern Badakhshan province say a man who was selling narcotics has been arrested in Faizabad, the provincial capital. Badakhshan Police Headquarters’ media office said thatthe person was arrested by security forces of the Anti-Narcotics Department…
Two journalists have opened a women’s only tailoring workshop for the first time in northeastern Badakhshan province and created work opportunity for 10 women. Abdul BaeesHakimi and NazimQasimi, the two local journalists in Badakhshan, opened the workshop costing…
