The urban court of central Bamyan province on Wednesday sentenced 18 education officials from three to six years in jail and fined them over embezzling pensioners’ salaries amounting to millions of afghanis. The officials had been accused…
Construction work was launched on Sunday on three buildings for two faculties and a girls’ hostel on the university campus in central Bamyan province. The buildings, a $1.5 million project, are being constructed with financial support from the…
Extension work on the fiber optic network from Yakawlang district of central Bamyan province to the northern region of the country was launched Saturday, an official said. Bamyan Governor Mohammad Tahir Zuhair said the fiber optic network…
A Large number of youth in central Bamyan province complained unemployment, lack of work opportunity to ensure their effective role in political area and working with the government, saying the ongoing problems forced them to seek asylum…
UN secretary general’s special representative for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom on Monday said the quadrilateral talks had not failed and there was no option with the warring parties except peace in Afghanistan. Haysom, who visited central Bamyan province,…
National Directorate of Security (NDS) officials on Sunday recovered and confiscated two huge caches of weapons and explosives in the Kahmard district of central Bamyan province, an official said. Brig. Gen Hayatullah Hayat Rostazada, the provincial NDS chief,…
University students in central Bamyan province complain the lack of hostels and high rents of private rooms in the provincial capital has left them with no option but to abandon their education. The students said hundreds of…
The agriculture, irrigation and livestock director for central Bamyan province has been arrested on corruption charges, the governor said on Wednesday. Governor Mohammad Tahir Zohari told Pajhwok Afghan News the agriculture director, Mohammad Tahir Attai, had been…
The spring plantation drive has been started under the slogan “every Bamyan resident should plant two saplings” in the central province of Bamyan. As many as 27,000 saplings will be planted as part of the tree plantation…
A man has been killed and five others have been wounded in separate incidents in central Daikundi and Bamyan provinces, officials said on Sunday. Abdur Rahman Ahmadi, the Bamyan governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News a man…
The governor of central Bamyan province on Saturday directed the new municipal administration to struggle for trenchancy and accountability. Governor Mohammad Tahir Zohair, addressingan introduction ceremony for Mayor Eng. Mohammad Aman, said municipality officials had been accused…
Ministry of Public Works officials on Thursday said the feasibility study to construct a road between southern Kandahar and central Bamyan provinces would be started within a few days. A Ministry of Public Works delegation visited Kandahar…
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in central Bamyan province said on Tuesday most residents were unhappy with the behaviour of Justice Department staff. AIHRC Director Roohullah Farogh said the law was not being implemented…
An arms depot containing “Iranian-made” ammunition and explosives has been discovered in central Bamyan province, an intelligence official claimed on Sunday. Provincial National Directorate of Security (NDS) chief Gen. Hayatullah Rostazada told a news conference here that…
The Hajigak Pass, connecting central Bamyan province with capital Kabul through Maidan Wardak province, has been closed since Wednesday due to heavy snowfall, officials said on Thursday. Driver Mohammad Jan said that most passengers travelled through the…
Residents on Thursday celebrated the title “world creative city” the central Bamyan province has been given by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Bamyan joined the list of UNESCO’s creative cities in 40 countries…
The coalmine of Eshpeshta area of Kohmard district of central Bamyan province caught fire few weeks ago and no measures have been taken so far to extinguish the blaze, local residents and officials said on Wednesday. “We…
Thousands of cave-dwellers near the Taliban-dynamited Buddha statues in central Bamyan province are wallowing in abject poverty and unemployment. Unable to make ends meet, the troglodytes have to struggle to keep their bodies and souls together. Their…
The education director for central Bamyan province and the education officer for Shebar district have been arrested on charges of embezzling millions of afghanis. Several education officers and hundreds of teachers have also been banned from leaving…
Concerned about family honour and lacking access to judicial organs, women in central Bamyan province avoid moving courts against the continued violations of their rights. Many females do not visit even the Women’s Affairs Department and the…
More than 11 tonnes of honey worth nine million afghanis has been produced this year in central Bamyan, officials said on Wednesday. Up to 400 women Director Eng. Mohammad Tahir Attayee told Pajhwok Afghan News. The beekeepers…
Civil society activists and the governor of central Bamyan province on Wednesday urged the government and security forces to bring to justice the killers of seven civilians in Zabul province. Holding a gathering in Bamyan City, the…
Vulnerable to natural disasters, residents of central Bamyan and western Ghor provinces have asked the government to provide them required food items and winter clothes before roads are blocked by snowfall. The residents warn of a severe…
Japan has donated snow-clearing machines worth nearly $1.4 million to central Bamyan province to help keep road open in winter, officials said on Sunday. The eight machines, including two excavators, two graders, two loaders and as many…
