At least 30 percent of students have dropped out of school as a result of multiple problems, the education director said on Thursday. Mohammad Ayub Awrin told Pajhwok Afghan News the lack of financial resources, teachers, textbooks…
The harsh drought in decades that gripped Afghanistan this year has affected around 50,000 families in central Bamyan province, local officials said Monday. Abdul Wahab Mohammadi, the provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock department head, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Afghan and French archeologists have begun a joint study of an ancient city called Ghoghola near the Buddhas in central Bamyan province. The joint Afghan-French team, accompanied by 30 archeology students, has been doing their research about…
Afghan and French archeologists have begun a joint study of an ancient city called Ghoghola near the Buddhas in central Bamyan province. The joint Afghan-French team, accompanied by 30 archeology students, has been doing their research about…
Top counternarcotics official in central Bamyan province says almost 14 per cent of the province’s residents including hundreds of children are addicted to drugs. Hussain Agha Nazari, counternarcotics director for Bamyan province, says though the province is…
A number of residents of central Bamyan province say Eid brings them no joys because they live in abject poverty in a country where dozens of innocent people are killed on a daily basis. Muslims celebrate Eidul Fitr…
Snowfall over the past two days has damaged some 200 homes in central Bamyan and Maidan Wardak provinces, officials said on Sunday. Bamyan natural disasters management authority director Mohammad Reza Rafat told Pajhwok Afghan News that snowfall and…
Local officials in central Bamyan province have warned about imminent fall of Kahmard and Seghan districts to Taliban insurgents following the collapse of Tala wa Barfak town in neighboring Baghlan. Two weeks back, the Taliban captured Baghlan’s Tala…
Hundreds of families have probably fled homes in Saighan district of central Bamyan province after water scarcity decimated their livelihoods, an official said Sunday, seeking the United Nations’ intervention. Abdul Jalil Saighani, district villages’ affairs director, told…
Residents of western Herat and central Bamyan provinces on Wednesday emerged on streets in support of the peace push initiated by the insurgency-hit residents of southern Helmand province. Youth, including women, have erected separate tents over the past…
Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan, infrastructure projects and preservation of historic monuments of central Bamyan province. The Chinese ambassador, who arrived in Bamyan City, told reporters that the People's Republic of China and Afghanistan had a long-standing relationship. He…
Counter-narcotics minister Salamat Azimi on Tuesday inaugurated a newly-constructed building for her ministry’s provincial department in central Bamyan province. The two-storey building on one acre of land in Bamyan City cost 11.7 million afghanis, said Hussain Nazari, Bamyan…
The counternarcotics director and five other individuals have been arrested on moral corruption charges in central Bamyan province, officials said on Suday. Two others including a security official were arrested for selling a Russian tank, provincial crime…
A mass marriage ceremony involving 37 pairs was held in central Bamyan province on Sunday, thanks to the Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC)’s financial help. The ceremony was attended by Bamyan governor Mohammad Tahir Zuhair, head…
A fist-of-its-kind ‘Election Museum’ that chronicles Afghanistan’s electoral journey with photographs, documents and technical items was inaugurated in central Bamyan province on Tuesday. The museum was officially inaugurated by chiefs of electoral bodies and members from Afghanistan…
Administrative corruption, weak administration, lack of buildings for schools, professional teachers and equipments are factors crippling the education process in central Bamyan province, a report said on Tuesday. Published by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)’s…
The number of local and foreign tourists visiting historic sites and natural beauty in central Bamyan province has increased as so far more than 200,000 people toured the province this solar year. Acting information and culture director…
As many as 250 farmers received agriculture on 550 acres this year, officials said on Sunday. The agriculture tools distributed included ladders, scissors and baskets to male farmer while female gardeners received shovels and handcarts. Those who…
Researchers of a private organization have found more than 170 different kinds of rare birds in areas around the Band-e-Amir park in central Bamyan province and urged their protection. Hunting wild animals and birds has long been…
KABUL commander by the name of Qari Wakil has joined the peace process along with his 10 fighters in central Bamyan province, an official said on Saturday. Qari Wakil was behind the northern Baghlan’s Tala-wa-Barfak district collapse earlier this year.…
Conflict, poverty and insecurity have long deprived women, however efforts at reducing women’s illiteracy rate have been launched. According to the provincial education department, currently 338 schools including 59 primary, 143 secondary and 136 high schools, are active…
Dozens of cave-dwelling families in central Bamyan province have been suffering from acute poverty, forced to break their Ramadan fast with plain bread and green tea. Living in dark caves close to the famous Buddha statues in…
The Ministry of Education in central Bamyan province. Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, MoE’s deputy head for literacy, told Pajhwok Afghan News the nine-month literacy course was being conducted in six districts of Bamyan. He said the scheme was…
KABUL members on Wednesday termed forced diversion of a passenger plane by supporters of a lawmaker in central Bamyan province as treason and demanded the incident to be investigated. Supporters of lawmaker Abdul Rahman Shahdani placed stones on the runway…
