Sixteen Taliban insurgents have been killed during separate clashes with security and uprising forces in northern Baghlan province, sources said on Sunday. The provincial National Directorate of Security office in a statement said 12 Taliban fighters were killed…
The commander of a military company tasked with protecting the highway in northern Baghlan province has been killed in a Taliban attack, a public representative said Monday. Samiuddin Nazer, a member of the Baghlan provincial council, told Pajhwok…
The increasing number of illegal gunmen has worried residents of Banu district in northern Baghlan province and they claim eight police chiefs have been replaced there in the past one year. The residents and tribal elders say the…
Residents of the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province on Wednesday protested against the new district mayor and blocked the Kabul-Kunduz highway against traffic. One of the protestors, Haji Sher Khan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the governor…
Residents of two districts of northern Baghlan province on Saturday asked the election commission not to invalidate their votes in the Wolesi Jirga elections. Hundreds of people coming all the way from Khost and Baghlan-i-Markazi districts to Pul-i-Alam,…
Counter-narcotic police seized 86 kilograms of drugs and arrested one individual in connection with the drugs in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Tuesday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Akramuddin Sareh told reporters that the drugs including 86kg,…
Some candidates in northern Baghlan province have lost their trust on the provincial Independent Election Commission (IEC. They warned to block the north highway and close the IEC office if their demand was ignored. Maulvi Abdul Hadi Naadem,…
Clashes and airstrikes killed more than a dozen Taliban insurgents near the capital of northern Baghlan province during an ongoing operation, an official said on Wednesday. Another 11 Taliban rebels were injured and four captured alive in the…
The hydropower dam’s spillway in the capital of northern Baghlan province is close to collapse and needs reconstruction on emergency footing, officials said on Tuesday. Abdul Qadir, the Afghan textile mill head in Baghlan Marzak-i-district, told Pajhwok Afghan…
A number of Wolesi Jirga candidates on Thursday claimed no voting took place in Tala wa Barfak district of northern Baghan province, but ballot boxes were stuffed in some areas. One of the disgruntled candidates, Abdul Samad Hamid…
Hundreds of residents from Doshi district of northern Baghlan province on Tuesday visited the governor’s house here and demanded fresh elections in their areas after thousands failed to cast their votes due to insecurity. One of the residents,…
At least eight people were killed and 45 others wounded in incidents happened during the Wolesi Jirga elections in northern Baghlan province on Saturday, officials said. Baghlan deputy public health director, Dr. Abdul Alim Ghafari, told Pajhwok Afghan…
The Independent Election Commission (IEC polling stations could be appointed so far in the province. Abdul Qahir Wahab Safi, IEC head for Baghlan, told in a gathering regarding women’s participation in the upcoming elections, that there would be…
Taliban militants have dynamited a large bridge connecting 40 remote villages in northern Baghlan province, local residents claimed on Sunday. The bridge in Abqo locality of Markaz-i-Baghlan district was destroyed with bombs a few days back, said Arbab…
At least 30 Taliban militants have been killed and another 16 wounded in airstrikes in the Markaz-i-Baghlan district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Tuesday. Ghulam Mohammad Balkhi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan army’s Shaheen Military Corps…
Residents of remote areas of northern Baghlan province say Afghan security forces are using schools as bases, depriving thousands of students of education. Syed Kama Wardak, a resident of the Kohna Qala area of Baghlan-I-Markazi district, told Pajhwok…
Peace marchers from southern Helmand province on Friday said they were insulted by Taliban militants upon reaching Dand Ghori district of northern Baghlan province. The peace convoy arrived in Dand Ghori district on Thursday evening and went to…
Five policemen have been killed during a clash with Taliban militants in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. Deputy police spokesman Javed Basharat told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents stormed an Afghan…
Forty-four security personnel have been killed in clashes with Taliban militants in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, an official said on Wednesday. Col. Zabihullah Ghorzang, Public Order battalion commander, told Pajhwok Afghan News the dead included…
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed and a fourth wounded, and a Humvee vehicle seized by Taliban militants in the capital of northern Baghlan province, officials said Saturday. Maj. Mohammad Hanif Rezayee, spokesman to the…
The number of drug addicts has reached around 50,000 and is increasing with each passing day in northern Baghlan province, an official said Tuesday. Shah Mahmood Poya, the provincial counter narcotics director, told Pajhwok Afghan News the number…
Twenty Taliban and eight Daesh rebels have been killed in airstrikes and clashes with security forces in northern Baghlan and southern Ghazni provinces, officials said Monday. Baghlan police chief Brig. Gen. Ikramuddin Sari told in a press conference…
The ten-member group of peace activists, who started their foot journey from the capital of northern Baghlan province to Kabul, returned home halfway on Sunday. The activists embarked on the foot journey from Pul-i-Khumri carrying banners inscribed with…
After the foot walks from Helmand province and neighboring Pakistan on Saturday. The peace marchers from southern Helmand reached Kabul in 35 days after walking for hundreds of kilometers and another group from eastern Kuanr is on its…
