HERAT CITY (PAN): Fifteen hundred patients from northwestern Badghis province are being sent to neighbouring Turkmenistan for treatment over next nine months, officials said on Wednesday. Governor Sharfuddin Majidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the patients were being sent under an…
KABUL): New governors for northwestern Badghis and central Daikundi provinces have been appointed in compliance with President Hamid Karzai’s decree, his office said on Sunday. Ahmadullah Alizai, a former deputy governor of Kabul, has been named as Badghis governor on…
Security for the Balamurghab’s district of northwestern Badghis province transitioned from foreign troops to Afghan forces on Wednesday, officials said. The security responsibility for Qala-i-Naw and four districts was given to Afghan forces last year, when Balamurghab's transition was delayed…
KABUL): The Spanish government on Tuesday granted $26 million to the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and the United Nations for the uplift of northwestern Badghis province, officials said. Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development Wais Barmak thanked the…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Flash floods triggered by heavy rains destroyed several homes and swept away livestock and household items in the capital of southwestern Badghis province, an official said on Saturday. The floodwaters played havoc in the first and second…
HERAT CITY (PAN): At least three people died and four others sustained injuries as flash floods unleashed by heavy rains hit 15 districts in western Herat and Badghis provinces, officials said on Sunday. Floodwaters inundated many parts of Herat City,…
HERAT CITY (PAN): At least three people died and four others sustained injuries as flash floods unleashed by heavy rains hit 15 districts in western Herat and Badghis provinces, officials said on Sunday. Floodwaters inundated many parts of Herat City,…
KABUL): The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee on Wednesday said $5 billion, including $400 million the Kabul Bank’s shareholders, were illegally transferred abroad. Kabul Bank, once the country’s largest private-sector lender, plunged into a deep financial crisis due to unauthorised…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): A mother and her two-month-old child were killed after the car they were travelling in spun out of control and overturned in northwestern Badghis province, an official said on Sunday. The accident occurred when the mother was rushing…
CHARIKAR): Separate armed clashes between rival families in central Parwan and northwestern Badghis provinces have left six people dead and nearly a dozen others wounded, officials said on Saturday. Five people were killed and seven wounded on Friday evening when…
QAL-I-NAW (PAN): Kidnappers released three kidnapped engineers with the statistics department in northwestern Badghis province, 10 days after they were abducted from the Maqur district, an official said on Saturday. The engineers and their driver went missing in the Babi…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN released the father of the provincial council secretary after spending a week in captivity in northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Thursday. Abdul Kabir’s father, abducted by the rebels in the Jowand district last week, was freed on…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Eight people have been died of extreme cold in the Aab-i-Kamari district of northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Wednesday. Residential buildings in the Muhammad Khan village have been under snow and roads blocked as a result of…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN militants kidnapped three engineers at the statistics department along with their driver in the Maqur district of northwestern Badghis province, officials said on Thursday. The four were seized in the Qala-i-Bandbai village on Tuesday evening, the police chief…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN fighters were killed and another 13 wounded during an operation by Afghan National Army (ANA) troops in the Bala Murghab district of northwestern Badghis province on Tuesday, police said. The operation in the Sakhri area was still ongoing,…
TALOQAN/QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Three people were killed when a car crashed into a truck in northern Takhar province, while two children died in a fire in northeastern Badghis, officials said on Wednesday. The crash occurred late on Tuesday night when a…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): The Sabzak Pass, connecting northwestern Badghis province with western Herat, reopened for traffic after a two-day blockade due to heavy snowfall and avalanches, officials said on Tuesday. The pass, 80 kilometers from the provincial capital Qala-i-Naw, was cleared…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN, completed a sevenths month vocational training course in northwestern Badghis province on Tuesday, officials said. Funded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the project cost 22 million afghanis ($446,247), with the beneficiaries including 200 former rebels…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Snow avalanches have blocked a key pass connecting northwestern Badghis province with western Herat, officials said on Monday. The Sabzak Pass has been closed since Sunday night, Abdul Ghani Saberi, the deputy governor, told Pajhwok Afghan News. An…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Six Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and 16 others injured in a bomb explosion in the northwestern province of Badghis on Saturday, the defence ministry said. The incident occurred on Saturday morning when soldiers of the…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): Heavy snowfall has blocked a key pass connecting northwestern Badghis province with western Herat, officials said on Tuesday. The Sabzak Pass has been closed since Monday night, the public works director told Pajhwok Afghan News. Up to 80…
QALA-I-NAW (PAN): More than 370 former insurgents have been taught vocational skills in northwestern Badghis province, an official said on Sunday. The individuals, after laying down their weapons, were trained for six months in carpentry, tailoring, masonry and beekeeping. High…
QALA-I-NAW/PUL-I-ALAM (PAN insurgents and a local police commander were killed in separate incidents, officials said on Sunday. Another three fighters and four policemen were injured during a joint operation by Afghan National Army and local police in the Panirak area…
