With the distribution of refined seeds and special tents for cultivating vegetables in the winter season, up to 3,000 women in northern Faryab province would benefit from the programme, officials said. Director of Agriculture Asadullah Bahar told Pajhwok…
Elders and provincial council members in northwestern Faryab province on Saturday warned Qaisar district could fall to Taliban. They said Taliban’s movements around the district had intensified and there was a need for a forcible clearing operation to…
Two policemen and five insurgents were killed during a clash in the Almar district of northwestern Faryab province, the district chief said on Wednesday. Mohammad Saleh Saleh told Pajhwok Afghan News police had launched a clean-up operation in…
Two women have been found dead in the Shirin Tagab district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. District chief Syed Luqman Kharik told Pajhwok Afghan News unidentified gunman killed the two women in their house…
Pashtunkot district elders in northwestern Faryab province on Tuesday blamed armed men for roughing them, with a woman accusing border policemen of trying to rape her. But police authorities linked the elders’ beating to a family dispute, saying…
The governor of southwestern Faryab province on Sunday denounced attaching spying tools and explosives to the wings of a bird as a plot of the Pakistan spy service. A day earlier, the public order police hunted an eagle-sized…
The agriculture department in northwestern Faryab province has started distributing 300 tonnes of refined wheat seeds to 6,000 farmers, officials said on Sunday. Governor Mohammadullah Batash told a gathering here that the provincial administration had registered some…
Police said on Thursday two policemen and a civilian had been found dead after their abduction in the Pashtunkot district of northeastern Faryab province. Faryab police chief Col. Mohammad Naeem Andarabi told Pajhwok Afghan News the two policemen…
In yet another horrifying incident, Taliban insurgents cut open the stomach of a retired army officer-turned a taxi driver to plant a bomb after kidnapping and killing him in northeastern Faryab province, officials said on Tuesday. The driver…
Taliban fighters suffered heavy causalities in anti-militants drives but civilians were suffering the most in terms of casualties in southwestern Faryab province, an official said Monday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Mohammad Nabi Ilham told Pajhwok Afghan News 43…
Three Taliban militants, including a commander, and two armed robbers have been killed and six others wounded during separate incidents in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Sunday. Provincial police chief Col. Naeem Andarabi told Pajhwok Afghan…
Five Taliban insurgents were killed and seven others injured during a cleanup operation in the Ghormach district of northern Faryab province, officials said on Thursday. Three ANA soldiers were also injured during the joint operation with police and…
Neighbouring Turkmenistan has failed to increase voltage of electricity it has extended to three northern Afghan provinces, an official said on Sunday. Syed Abdul Hamid, electricity department head for northwestern Faryab province, said the price of firewood and…
Four civilians have been killed during a clash between two groups in the Pashtunkot district of northwestern Faryab province, officials said on Friday. Police spokesman Syed Massoud Yaqubi told Pajhwok Afghan News the firefight erupted in Aimaq area…
Two people, including a district literacy department official, were killed and three border policemen were wounded during two separate gun attacks in northwestern Faryab province on Thursday. The border and public order police were heading to Maimana, the…
Work on a road project, financed by the World Bank, was launched in northern Faryab province on Monday. With the construction project connecting Khan Charbagh district with the Aqina-Andkhoi highway, bus fares are expected to fall and transportation…
A woman was killed and her spouse and son were injured when a mortar shell hit their house in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Tuesday. Wishing not to be named, the official told Pajhwok Afghan News…
The Afghan National Army (ANA) on Sunday announced wrapping up an operation codenamed “Khanjar-5” in the Almar district of northwestern Faryab province. The 209th Shaheen Military Corps in a statement said the operation was launched following an attack…
A young man was gunned down by a losing provincial council candidate after a verbal clash in the capital of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. Faryab police spokesman Syed Massoud Yaqubi told Pajhwok Afghan News…
At least four persons, including two Afghan Local police (ALP) officials, have been killed in incidents of violence in different parts of the country, officials said Thursday. Two ALP commanders Qahraman and Mohammad Rahim were shot dead…
At least four people were killed on Saturday after gunmen loyal to two rival illegal militia leaders clashed in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Saturday. The gunbattle broke out in the morning in Qarayee area of…
Construction work on the first-ever girls’ hostel on the university campus was launched in northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Monday. Governor Mohammadullah Batash told Pajhwok Afghan News the girls’ hostel was being constructed on six and…
About 70,000 litres of fuel were torched on Wednesday as a result of a blaze at the Aqina port in northwestern Faryab province, bordering Turkmenistan, an official said. The fire broke out due to a short circuit of…
At least six people, including a child, were killed and six others wounded in separate incidents of violence in northern Baghlan and northwestern Faryab provinces, officials said on Monday. A 12-year-old child was killed and six others were…
