Attorneys from more than a dozen districts have been working in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, due to the absence of facilities they need to perform their job in a proper way, it is learnt. Fazal…
Many district roads have been blocked for traffic due to snowfall in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan for the past three months, an official says. Ahmad Navid Frotan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the snowfalls…
A woman died, five sustained wounds and three more were missing after the passenger vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into the Amu River in northeastern Badakhshan province, police said on Saturday. Provincial…
KABUL court in Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Wednesday. The incident on the eve of the International Women’s Day took place on Tuesday’s afternoon, said acting provincial police chief Col. Mohammad Nabi Bayan. “Yesterday a…
The People's Republic of China distributed food aid to around 550 impoverished families in northeastern Badkhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The food items included 25 tonnes of rice, 30 tonnes of flour, five tonnes of ghee…
At least four people have died and eight others injured in snow avalanches in three districts of northeastern Badakhshan province, public representatives said Saturday. Provincial council secretary Ahmad Javid Javid said two people lost their lives to avalanches…
At least 10 militants, including foreigners, have been killed and 14 others wounded during an operation in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Sunday. Ahmad Navid Frotan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the operation -- codenamed…
Two men, including a police officer, have been shot dead by unknown gunmen in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Col. Sakhidad Haidari, crime branch chief, told Pajhwok Aghan News the incident occurred in the 1st…
Local officials on Monday said security forces repulsed three attacks from militants to capture lapis lazuli mine in Karan wa Manjan district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Ghafori, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
An avalanche in the Mayami district of southeastern Badakhshan province has claimed 10 people’s lives and injured 12 others, officials said on Saturday. The avalanche hit 25 residences in Ghami Bala area on Friday night, the Afghanistan National…
Illegal gunmen and insurgents have been digging up gold and lapis lazuli mines in northeastern Badakhshan province, local officials said on Monday. Mohammad Akbar Anwari, Badakhshan mines director, told a press conference here that the lapis lazuli mines…
Powerful individuals and government departments have usurped lands containing important archaeological sites in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. Director of Information and Culture Syed Hussain Naheeb told Pajhwok Afghan News they had been able to…
A former National Directorate of Security (NDS) employee was among three others gunned down separately in north-eastern Badakhshan and northern Faryab provinces, officials said on Saturday. Abdullah Masomi, the administrative head for Sabz-Push district of Faryab, told Pajhwok…
Fourteen Taliban militants have been killed and ten others wounded during clashes with security forces in northeastern Badakhshan and northern Jawzjan provinces, officials said Tuesday. Jawzjan governor’s spokesman Mohammad Raza Ghafoori told Pajhwok Afghan News militants stormed security…
The acting governor on Sunday said aid from UNHCR was unjustly distributed to refugees and displaced families in northeastern Badakhshan province. Gul Mohammad Bidar told Pajhwok Afghan News the aid from UNHCR was being distributed without coordination with…
A border police officer has died of severe cold temperature in northeastern Badakhshan province, where two persons were separately found dead, an official said on Sunday. Crime branch police chief Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News…
China on Tuesday provided one million Yuan ($145,000) in cash aid for calamity-hit families of northeastern Badakhshan province. Zhang Zhixin, Chargé d’Affaires at the Chinese Embassy in Kabul, met Sayed Abdullah, senior official of Afghanistan National Disaster Management…
Officials in northeastern Badakhshan province on Tuesday said the provincial revenue department’s income increased by seven percent this year despite no revenue collection from gold and lapis lazuli mines’ extraction. Finance manager at the provincial Revenue Department, Abdul…
Three Afghan Local Police members and a notorious Taliban commander have been killed separately in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday. Provincial crime branch police chief Col. Sakhi Dad Hidari told Pajhwok Afghan News that Afghan…
Two dead bodies have been found in a hotel in Baharak district of northeastern Badakhshan province, the district police chief said on Tuesday. Maj. Abdul Wadud Rasikh told Pajhwok Afghan News the corpses were found in a hotel…
Local security officials on Tuesday said a 10 years old girl has been killed and two other people wounded during an insurgent attack in northeastern Badakhshan province. Crime branch chief, Col. Sakhi Dad Haideri, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Heavy snowing has blocked roads to five districts of southeastern Badakhshan province, obliging residents to reach neighboring Kunduz province through Tajikistan, an official said on Monday. The snowfall has been ongoing over the past few days, blocking roads…
A number of displaced residents of Wardoj, Yamgan and Jurm districts in northeastern Badakhshan province have accused the government for lack of attention to address security issues and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)’s problems. Hundreds of the displaced people…
Construction work on seven school buildings has been completed with financial support from the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in northern Samangan province. While in northeastern Badakhshan province, construction work on a building for the information and culture…
