Women and other fields over the past 15 years, but view growing insecurity, negative traditions and discrimination as main challenges. Asila Gahryak, head of the state-controlled Faryab Magazine, told Pajhwok Afghan News women had made major achievements after…
Seven people, including three civilians and one security official, were killed after militants ambushed a military convoy in northern Faryab province on Saturday. Faryab police spokesman Abdul Karim Yourish told Pajhwok Afghan News the convoy of the Afghan…
KABUL militants ambushed and killed three brothers in the Pashtunkot district of northern Faryab province on Monday, police said. Pashtunkot police chief told Pajhwok Afghan News the three brothers --- Mullah Habibullah, Mullah Nimatullah and Mullah Najibullah --- were members…
Local police have arrested three persons for carrying away three dead bodies of insurgents in Pashtunkot district of northern Faryab province on Monday. Faryab police spokesman Abdul Karim Yurash told Pajhwok Afghan News the three dead bodies were…
A 35-year-old woman committed suicide by poisoning herself in Maimana city, the capital of northwestern Faryab province on Saturday, an official said. Provincial police spokesman, Abdul Karim Yurish, told Pajhwok Afghan News the woman named, Abida, the mother…
A group of seven Daesh -- or so called Islamic State (IS) -- militants has been captured by Taliban in the Balcheragh district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. A security official, who wished to…
A border police commander survived a rocket attack that struck his vehicle and injured his two bodyguards in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Saturday. Police chief Abdul Karim Yourish said security forces and uprising members pushed…
The Qurai Shaikhi area of Khwaja Sabz Posh district in northwestern Faryab province fell to the Taliban on Wednesday night, local officials said on Thursday. District Chief Abdullah Masoomi said lack of cooperation, withdrawal of Afghan National Army…
At least five people including an uprising commander have been killed in Qurghan district while a man was gunned down in Bacheragh district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said Thursday. Local officials said five people were killed…
Two women died in separate incidents in the capital and Aandkhui district of northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Sunday. A security official, who wished to remain anonymous, said a man gunned down his brother’s wife and injured a…
Three people were killed and 10 others sustained wounds in a traffic accident in northwestern Faryab province on Monday. The early morning accident occurred when two vehicles collided on the Qarmaqol-Dawlatabad highway in Aaq Guzar locality of Qarmaqol…
Gunmen shot dead petroleum products director for northwestern Faryab province in his office on Thursday, officials said. Two gunmen entered director Naqibullah’s office located in the first district of Maimana City, the provincial capital, in the afternoon and…
Interior Minister Taj Mohammad Jahid on Monday arrived in northwestern Faryab province to assess security situation. and development projects will be implemented in all areas, Interior affairs minister remarked in a visit to Faryab province on Monday. The…
More than 80 schoolgirls and their three teachers mysteriously fell ill and were hospitalized in northern Faryab province on Wednesday, when the world’s day. The suspected poison attack took place in Qurghan district, the town’s administrative head, Eng.…
Security forces on Tuesday claimed killing at least 30 Taliban militants and injuring another 26 during a clash in northwestern Faryab province. The clash erupted after armed militants ambushed a supply convoy of security forces in Kanjak locality…
A mass grave has been discovered in Maimana city, the provincial capital of northwestern Faryab province, local officials said on Saturday. Col. Mir Amanullah Zafir, provincial police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that according to inhabitants of Chaghatak…
Armed insurgents have shot dead a district police chief’s son and a policeman in northwestern Faryab province, local officials said on Tuesday. Col. Mir Amanullah Zafir, deputy police chief, said Khwaja Sabz Posh police head Hashim Batoor’s son…
At least 26 people were killed and six others wounded in a fresh snowstorm in northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Sunday. Faryab Governor Sayed Anwar Sadat told Pajhwok Afghan News that 70cm and 80cm snowfall had been…
At least four villages have been cleared and three police check posts recaptured from militants as a result of ongoing operations in Khawaja Sabzposh district of northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Saturday. Deputy police chief Mir Amanullah…
Drivers on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in the capital of northwestern Faryab province against extortion by armed commanders. The drivers from Pashtunkot, Balcharagh, Garziwan and Kohistan districts protested in front of the provincial council in Maimana, the…
Several drug addicts have been rehabilitated at the personal expense of two uprising commanders in the Balcheragh district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. On the other side, Faryab police collected more than 80 addicts…
religious scholars, tribal elders and civil society activists from northwestern Faryab province have praised Afghan forces for capturing six kidnappers and asked government to publicly execute them. A week ago, the body of a schoolchild, who had been…
A former National Directorate of Security (NDS) employee was among three others gunned down separately in north-eastern Badakhshan and northern Faryab provinces, officials said on Saturday. Abdullah Masomi, the administrative head for Sabz-Push district of Faryab, told Pajhwok…
A high school student was found dead Monday after remaining missing for one and a half months in northern Faryab province, an official said. The slain boy had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen from Maimana, the provincial capital,…
