Police arrested a burq-clad man in northern Badghis province, an official said Monday. Provincial police chief Col. Mohammad Qayyum Angar told Pajhwok Afghan News the man who wore a head to toe shawl tried to cross police check…
Three policemen were killed, two wounded and as many were missing after insurgents attacked their post in northwestern Badghis province on Wednesday, an official said. Provincial Intelligence Chief Col. Mohammad Qayyum Angar told Pajhwok Afghan News the attack…
The Herat-Qala-i-Naw road has been reopened for traffic which was earlier blocked following incessant rains and floods, an official said on Tuesday. The floods in the provincial capital and Maqur district damaged three culverts on Herat-Qala-e-Naw highway…
Residents say illegal armed groups continue to exist in northwestern Badghis province, saying a campaign against them has apparently fizzled out. Violence involving illegal armed men took place on Saturday, leaving five people dead and 10 others injured,…
The Agriculture Department in northwestern Badghis province has started distributing 210 tonnes of improved wheat seeds to 4,200 farmers, officials said on Thursday. Agriculture Director Ghulam Mohammad told Pajhwok Afghan News a 50-kilogram bag of seeds would be…
The Taliban set free six abducted schoolteachers following negotiations with tribal elders in the Qadis district of northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Friday. A Taliban commander Mullah Izzatullah had kidnapped the six teachers from the Takak area.…
KABUL to 18. Faryab crime branch police chief Col. Sarbeland Hasham told Pajhwok Afghan News a 37-year-old woman had been shot to death with a pistol in the Pashtunkot district. He said the mother of two children was killed by…
A flash flood damaged the Badghis-Herat highway in Qala-i-Naw, forcing its closure on Wednesday morning, authorities said. Badghis provincial council member Abdul Nasir told Pajhwok Afghan News the busy highway had to be closed for traffic at 5am.…
One National Directorate of Security (NDS) agent was killed and five others were wounded in a militant ambush in western Badghis province on Tuesday, an official said. The attack took place in Karkh district on the Badghis-Herat Highway…
An Afghan Local Police (ALP) member was killed and five civilians were wounded in a landmine blast in the Maqur district of western Badghis province on Saturday, police said. Brig. Gen. Amir Shah Naib, the public order police…
Residents of northwestern Badghis province complain of inadequate health facilities, asking the government to take necessary steps in this regard. Having a total area of 32,000 square kilometres area, the Badghis population is estimated at approximately 750,000 inhabitants.…
Five security personnel were killed in two separate incidents in Kunar and Badghis provinces, officials said on Thursday. Governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala said three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in the Mazar…
Two Afghan security forces, as many militants and a civilian have been killed and many others wounded in separate security incidents in different parts of the country during the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. Four policemen and…
Two Afghan Local Police (ALP) members were killed by their colleagues in the Badpakh district of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Monday. The governor’s spokesman, Sarhadi Zwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News the overnight incident in Hafiz…
Two militants were killed and a policeman wounded in an attack on a security post on the Badghis-Herat highway, an official said on Friday. The predawn attack on the police checkpoint happened in the Laman area on the…
HERAT CITY (PAN): A woman was axed to death by her husband in an attack driven by domestic violence in the Aab Kamari district of northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Tuesday. The governor’s spokesman, Mirwais Mirzakwal, told Pajhwok Afghan…
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…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Three policemen lost their lives to separate incidents of violence in western Herat province, while four road construction workers have been kidnapped in northwestern Badghis, officials said on Saturday. Insurgents stormed a police post in Keshk Kohna…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Truck drivers from the Bala Murghab district of western Badghis province on Sunday accused highway police of seeking bribes from them. They complained highway police took 2,500 afghanis ($45) in bribe from the driver of each truck…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Wheat production in northwestern Badghis province has more than doubled this year, compared to the 2012 yield, an official said on Sunday. Citing a survey, Agriculture Director Hafizullah Benish told Pajhwok Afghan News this year’s production stood…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Two separate domestic violence incidents claimed four lives in Badghis and Ghazni provinces, officials say. In the western province of Badghis, a man shot dead his wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law in Dara-i-Boom area of Qades district on…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Security forces said on Friday two soldiers and three insurgents were killed during a clash in northwestern Badghis province. A senior official of 207th Zafar Military Corps told Pajhwok Afghan News an explosive device was found in Muqar…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Tens of illegal groups would be disarmed to improve the security situation and pave the way for development projects in northwestern Badghis province, an official promised on Thursday. Two people were killed and as many wounded earlier…
HERAT CITY (PAN): The director of information and culture of northwestern Badghis province was detained on Monday on charges of misuse of his position and corruption, an official said. Ahmad Ihsan Sarooryar was detained by Herat police after he was…
