The justice department on Tuesday said it had prepared a list of 500 individuals involved in grabbing above 28,000 acres of government land in northern Baghlan province. Syed Mehmood Sadat, the department head, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Residents of the Burka district of northern Baghlan province on Monday held a protest against gunmen involved in killing civilians and accused a provincial council member of backing outlaws. Tens of people gathered in front of the police…
The Municipality of Pul-I-khumri, the provincial capital of the northeastern Baghlan province, recorded a $3 million deficit in its revenue. The municipality revenue was around $4 million in 2012, but declined to less than a million in 2013.…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme officials have expressed their concerns over the presence of illegal armed individuals in northern Baghlan province. At a meeting with DIAG officials, police chief Lt. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel said there were…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Police seized 286 kilograms of drugs concealed in wheat bags in northern Baghlan province on Monday. The drugs were recovered from a truck intercepted at a police check post in Pul-i-Khumri, the provincial capital, the provincial police chief…
One block of the Killagai prison in northern Baghlan province has been damaged, with dozens of inmates shifted to other portions, where they are facing hardships. The five acres prison includes four single-storey blocks was built at a…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The Baghlan police chief on Monday said 180 policemen have been serving as bodyguards of senior officials, politicians and generals, creating a shortage of personnel in the northern province. Brig. Gen. Aminullah Amarkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News some…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A group of suicide attackers, planning an attack on the governor’s house, had been detained in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Thursday. The militant group was busted during an operation in the Dand-i-Ghori area on the outskirts…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A group of unidentified gunmen gang raped a teenage girl after kidnapping her from home in Doshi district of the northern Baghlan province, the victim’s father wishing not to be named said. Talking to Pajhwok Afghan News, her…
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…
PUL-LKHUMRI (PAM): Some residents of Borka district in northern Baghlan province have accused member of a provincial council of harassing and intimidating locals through police force. Abdul Jabar Islami, administrative head of Borka district, alleged that Haji Mohammad, a provincial…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Hundreds of protesters held demonstration in northern Baghlan province on Monday, demanding the arrest of those involved in the killing of a boy and her girlfriend after they eloped one week back. Earlier, the girl eloped with Saifullah,…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Officials say they are concerned about the safety of dwellers of a controversial township located near coalmines in northern Baghlan province. Nearly 1,900 residential houses have been constructed in the township spread on 5,000 acres of land near…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN, as part of an investigation into sexual assaults on two minor girls in the Borka district of northern Baghlan province, an official said. Borka district chief, Abdul Jabbar Islami, confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News that police had detained…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Hundreds of people on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration in the capital of northern Baghlan province, destroying the foundation of a commercial market being built on a piece of land which they claimed had been allotted for a…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A cement manufacturing factory has to pay 118 million afghanis in unpaid electricity bills to the power utility in northern Baghlan province, an official claimed on Thursday. The Ghori Cement Factory has failed to pay the outstanding amount…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Police have detained the crime branch chief of northern Baghlan province after a local court accused him of law violations and misuse of authority, officials said on Tuesday. Deputy Baghlan police chief Lt. Col. Mohammad Sadeq Muradi told…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN-Baghlan highway in two separate incidents, officials said on Sunday. The fuel tanker, going from the Sher Khan Port to Kabul, was attacked in the Chahar Maghzak Square in the northern part of Salang Pass at 2am, the Khinjan…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN and provincial council members of meddling in municipality affairs. But the public representatives blame the mayor for employing pressure tactics. Abdullah Haris, who took over as Pul-i-Khumri mayor two months ago, alleged shopkeepers and vendors had placed their…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Demanding the immediate arrest of the killers of civilians, protestors reopened the northern Kunduz-Baghlan highway after three hours of closure, an official said. Hundreds of residents staged the protest against the murder of two civilians by unidentified gunmen,…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Six militants and one policeman were killed during a clash in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Thursday. The firefight on Wednesday night broke out after a group of insurgents attacked a police post in Mullakhel area…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Seven people were killed during a clash between two rival families over a land dispute in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, police said on Tuesday. The clash took place in Kandaharyan village on Monday evening, with…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): In a rare operation, residents rescued five kidnapped engineers, including an Indian citizen, from their captors in northern Baghlan province, police said on Wednesday. Unknown gunmen had kidnapped two engineers of the Energy and Water Ministry, including the…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Three policemen and 10 militants were killed during a clash in the northwestern province of Badghis on Tuesday, officials said. The clash erupted after the Taliban attacked a local police checkpoint in Bala Murghab district, the governor’s…
