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15 uplift projects launched in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Thousands of residents would benefit from 15 development projects launched in the northern province of Baghlan, officials said on Monday. The projects under implementation include a 20-bed hospital, a road, a water dam, 11 schools and two clinics…

4 recaptured after escape from prison

KABUL): Four prisoners who fled the central jail in northern Baghlan province have been recaptured in Kabul, officials claimed on Saturday. The inmates who fled on March.20 were re-arrested at Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital with the cooperation of Baghlan detectives,…

Baghlan fish-farming project completed

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A fish farm was built and work on an irrigation project launched in northern Baghlan province on Thursday, officials said. As part of the project, a water head and 18 concrete distributory gates of irrigation water will be…

Indigent Baghlan resident sells twins for $1,000

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): An indigent man sold his newly-born twin daughters following the death of his spouse in delivery at the Baghlan Civil Hospital, officials said on Tuesday. The 35 years old brought his pregnant wife to Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of…

Police officer among 3 sentenced to jail

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A Khost district police chief and two other officers were sentenced to six years in jail on charges of dereliction of duty and complicity in the abduction of a girl in the northern province of Baghlan, officials said…

Taliban return to Baghlan-i-Markazi

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Amid growing concerns among residents over increasing insecurity, six insurgents, including a commander, were detained in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Tuesday. Identified as Azizullah, the rebel leader was detained along with three…

Boy kills 3 family members in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A young boy killed three family members and injured five others in the Fring district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Monday.   Rahmatullah stabbed to death his uncle, cousin and a child and injured five others,…

Death toll from accident rises to 3

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The death toll from a traffic accident in northern Baghlan province has risen to three after a 12-year-old boy succumbed to his wounds at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday. The boy was among 27 people critically…

28 rebels join peace process in Baghlan

PUL-I- KHUMRI (PAN joined the peace process in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province on Tuesday. Associated with the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led party, the group was active in Baisqal area under Mohammad Ibrahim, who turned in 18 weapons and 20…

Baghlan police official facing rape charges

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): The crime branch chief for the Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province has been referred to the military prosecution office on the charge of sexually abusing a girl, an official said on Sunday. The girl was abducted from…

3 insurgents held, 11 surrender in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Three armed insurgents, including a notorious commander, were captured alive during separate security operations in northern Baghlan province, where an 11-member rebel group joined the government-initiated peace drive, an official said on Sunday. Two alleged insurgents were apprehended…

No clue to absconding Baghlan officials, Senate told

KABUL was informed on Saturday. Mohammad Kamin, a former police chief of the Baghlan-i-Markazi district in Baghlan province, has been accused of killing three officers of Afghan National Army's Special Forces. The three were killed a day before Eidul Azha…

Eight suspected criminals nabbed in Herat

HERAT (PAN): Eight suspects were arrested for alleged involved in crime-related activities in Shindund district of western Herat province, an official said on Wednesday." src="http://www.pajhwok.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/i..." alt="<--break->" data-mce-src="/sites/all/modules/contrib/wysiwyg/plugins/break/images/spacer.gif"> Herat police chief Maj.Gen.Abdul Hameem Hamedi told Pajhwok Afghan News that eight men…

A $15-million Baghlan road project contract inked

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A multi-million contract to build a 38-kilometre road in the northern province of Baghlan was signed between the Ministry of Public Works and an Afghan construction company on Wednesday. Public Works Minister Najibullah Awzan, who witnessed the contract…

Minister survives bomb attack in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN Minister Obaidullah Obaid survived a bomb attack on Sunday when one of the cars in his convoy struck a roadside bomb in northern Baghlan province. Muhamad Kamin, the Baghlan-i-Markazi district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the explosion…

14 killed in Baghlan floods

PUL-I-KHUMI (PAN): Fourteen people were killed, three others injured and five more were missing after huge floods hit several districts in northern Baghlan province, officials said on Saturday. Four people and 100 domestic animals were killed in Borki district, where…

16 years jail for raping teacher

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A 25-year-old man who raped a schoolteacher was sentence to 16 years jail by the Appellant Court in northern Baghlan Province, an official said on Saturday. The accused, Firoz, had sexually assaulted the 28-year-old victim four months ago,…

Bomb maker among 3 rebel leaders killed

KABUL): Three senior rebel leaders were killed and two other insurgents injured in separate operations by foreign troops in Baghlan and Kabul provinces, officials said on Friday. US-led coalition troops killed a Taliban) said. The precision airstrike took place after…

Female teacher knifed to death in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A female teacher was brutally knifed to death by her brother in the northern province of Baghlan, official said on Wednesday. Sima, a teacher at the Nawi Baghlan-i-Markazi Girls High School, was killed by her brother on Tuesday…

3 killed, 12 injured as rival gangs clash in Baghlan

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A gangland war between two heavily-armed factions lead to the death of three people and a dozen injured in Pul-i-Hesarak district of northern Baghlan province, police said on Saturday. Police chief Col. Asadullah Shirzad told Pajhwok Afghan News…

5 killed, 79 injured in new protests over Quran burning

KABUL at the Bagram Airbase entered a fifth day on Saturday, officials said.  Four demonstrators were killed and 56 injured after they attacked the United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) office in northern Kunduz province. Hundreds of people rallied…

More casualties as violent protests rage on

KABUL at a US military base in central Parwan province, officials and witnesses said. Hundreds of furious residents, mostly youths carrying white and green flags, staged a demonstration in the Pul-i-Charkhi area of Kabul, torching police booths. Trying to enter…

Insecurity deprives 4,000 Baghlan children of education

PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province due to insecurity, an official on Monday. Afghan security forces retook the Baisqal area of Baghlan-i-Markazi from militants loyal to the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) 10 days ago; four years after…