Police have seized about 2,000 kilograms of explosives and arrested one suspect in central Daikundi province, an official said on Wednesday. Ishaq Ali Paikar, police chief for Miramor district, told Pajhwok Afghan News 39 bags of the banned…
Local officials on Tuesday said 33 security personnel based in the Ajristan district of southern Ghazni province have got shelter in the Miramor district of central Daikundi province. Abdul Qadir Haidari, Miramor district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
A number of residents of central Daikundi province complain the government has been inattentive to the province’s natural environment protection. They say the environment has significantly polluted in Neili, the provincial capital, causing diseases to residents. Rahmatullah Qasimi,…
The Ministry of Water and Energy on Sunday signed a contract with a Chinese firm for a solar power plant in central Daikundi province, an official said. Eng. Ali Ahmad Usmani, the Water and Energy Minister, signed the…
An overwhelming majority of Pato Ghar district residents in central Daikundi province do not have Tazkira or paper national identity card which is required for registration to vote, residents say. Mullah Ahmad Gul, a resident of Pato Ghar…
The police chief for the Kiti district of central Daikundi province has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a woman. A credible security source, who declined to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News Syed Abu Hassan had…
The High Peace Committee (HPC) does not have the capacity to make the reconciliation peace process a success, civil society activists in central Daikundi province believe. Habibullah Helmandi, one of the activists, told Pajhwok Afghan News the HPC…
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) director for central Daikundi province has been detained on charges of moral corruption, misuse of authority and weapons smuggling. Attorney Daud Amiri confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News a case against Qasim Qaseem-- the…
Two people, including policeman, have killed and four others wounded in traffic accident and bomb blast in central Daikundi and southwest Nimroz provinces, officials said on Saturday A woman was killed and two other injured in a traffic…
The residents of central Daikundi province have been taking more interest in cultivation of saffron as this year’s saffron yield reached 50 kilograms, local officials say. According to farmers and agriculture officials, Daikundi’s water and climate is suitable…
Local officials and gardeners in central Daikundi province report a 20 percent increase almond production this year, but complain about the dried fruit’s dropping price in the market. Sayed Abdul Wahid Ferozi, provincial agriculture, irrigation and livestock director,…
Mostly uneducated about Hepatitis B disease, the residents of Miramor district in central Daikundi province say they are worried about the spread of the highly contagious virus. The impoverished residents ask the government to facilitate them in treatment…
Local officials on Tuesday said a primary court clerk in the Miramor district of central Daikundi province had been arrested on bribery charges. A credible source in Daikund, who wished to go unnamed, confided to Pajhwok Afghan News…
Providing contradictory figures, provincial officials in central Daikundi province have said cases of suicide among women and violence against the gender have increased in the province. Daikundi is a traditional province where 40 percent of people live are…
The primary court in central Daikundi province on Sunday sentenced to 16 months in jail the provincial labour, social affairs, martyrs and disabled (LSMD) department head. Ghulam Hussain Farzam has been detained on the charges of falsification and…
At least four people have been killed and agriculture land damaged as result of rain-triggered floods in central Daikundi province, an official said on Sunday. Provincial disaster management director, Reza Sidiqi, told Pajhwok Afghan News two women were…
An Afghan prisoner in the central Daikundi province, made a bust of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner of the United States for her supporting remarks about Muslims during the election campaign. Sher Hassan Hawida, an inmate in…
Some people with disabilities in central Daikundi province accuse local officials of negligence in providing them their allowances and privileges. The physically challenged people accuse local officials of depriving them of their rights such as recruitment of qualified…
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 on Wednesday said 80 percent of government offices in central Daikundi province have buildings and the rest would be provided the same facilities next solar year. Inaugurating a newly-constructed building for the Economy Department, Masuma Muradi…
Hundreds of residents of Daikundi province on Saturday staged a protest for changing the proposed route for the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan (TUTAP) electricity project. The TUTAP project, transferring 500 kilowatts of electricity through the Salang Pass of Afghanistan to…
Protestors in western Ghor and Islamic State (IS). Despite heavy rainfall, hundreds of people including women marched from the main bazaar of Neili, the capital of Daikundi province,toward the governor’s house and condemned the beheading of seven civilians…
This year almond prices have incased in central Daikundi province, with farmers earning 1.05 billion afghanis from its sales and exports to India, an official said on Saturday. In 2014, the revenue from 7,700 tonnes of almond…
The New Kabul Bank branch’s closure in central Daikundi province has irked dozens of residents who daily queue up in front of the bank to withdraw salaries or get other services. Daikundi residents say the branch remained closed…
