A woman has been shot to death by her brother in the Almar district of northern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. Crime branch official Damla Moawez, confirmed the incident to Pajhwok Afghan News, identifying the victim…
Security forces have arrested a man impersonating as a girl on Facebook and tricking another man into paying him 5.5 million afghanis in southeastern Khost province. Khost police spokesman Mustaghfer Gurbaz told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
Officials say 60 people have been arrested in connection with 47 separate criminal cases in capital Kabul over the last one week. The cases of 53 suspects have been processed and the convicts sent to Pul-i-Charkhi prison, they…
At least 27 suspects have been arrested in connection with criminal cases in different parts of capital Kabul.
Three persons, including a couple, have been arrested over selling a baby child in western Herat province, police said on Thursday. Acting police spokesman Farhad Frotan told Pajhwok Afghan News a man and his wife sold a…
2 dead, 6 injured in Kunduz suicide attack from Pajhwok Afghan News. KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Two civilians were killed and six others wounded in a suicide attack in the Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province on Saturday, officials said. A…
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…
KABBUL (PAN, citing a report by the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its November 2013 Report on Preliminary Examination of Activities, the ICC prosecutor’s office found that war crimes and…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Security forces discovered a depot of explosive and arrested an individual in this connection in the Guzra district of Herat province, an official said on Wednesday. Nisar Ahmad Popal, the district chief, told reports the explosives were…
JALALABAD (PAN): Intelligence operatives in eastern Laghman province have detained 21 children, some as young as 7, being taken to Pakistan for receiving suicide attack training, an official said on Thursday. The children, aged between 7 and 12 years, were…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least eight people were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide attack on the Indian consulate in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, officials said. A powerful blast, followed by intense gunfire, took place at the entrance…
KABUL (PAN) : A member of the Ghor Provincial Council, Fazel-ul-Ahad, was accused of lashing three young men in Dolina district of Ghoor province. On a video received to Pajhwok Afghan News shows that Fazel-ul-Ahad a member of Ghor Provincial…
KABUL (PAN): Triggered by a brazen assault on the Kabul International Airport early Monday morning, clashes between insurgents and security forces ended with the killing of all seven attackers, the Ministry of Interior said. Two of the militants blew themselves…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Twin bomb explosions rocked southern Kandahar province on Friday evening, killing and wounding dozens of people, officials said. At least nine bodies and 70 wounded people have been brought to the Mirwais Civil Hospital in Kandahar City…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A runaway woman was shot dead during a clash between security personnel and robbers in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Friday. Shabnam, hailing from Mazar-i-Sharif, eloped with Kabul resident Naveed to Takhar province on…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Around 150 schoolgirls were poisoned in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, on Tuesday, an official said. Col. Abdul Razzaq Qadiri, the provincial police chief, confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place at the Khurasan…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Relatives and residents of western Herat province on Thursday refused to bury the dead bodies of 13 Afghans executed in Iran until an international probe into the deaths was launched. Placed in coffins, the bodies were on…
HERAT CITY (PAN): A civilian was killed and another injured when the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers opened fire on a civilian vehicle in western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Wednesday in the…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A woman was sentenced to death by the appellant court on the charge of killing husband in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Monday. Bibi Mashriqa was handed the capital punishment by the primary court,…
KABUL (PAN): A suicide bomber exploded his explosives-packed motorbike at the entrance of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the heavily fortified Kabul city on Saturday, killing at least nine people, including military officials and civilians, an official said. At…
KABUL) The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Wednesday welcomed the Special Tribunal’s verdict in the Kabul Bank fraud case, saying it represented a major achievement of Afghan law-enforcement authorities and the judiciary. The judgment showed Afghan legal institutions had…
