KABUL has found. In its investigation report released late Thursday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said initial findings indicated the vast majority of the victims were women and children. “The Mission is actively working to verify information indicating up…
Nearly 2000 civilians suffered casualties as a result of clashes, airstrikes and bomb explosions in southern Helmand province during the past eight months, an official said on Thursday. Sixty people lost their lives and another 1,890 others sustained wounds…
Sixteen civilians and as many Taliban insurgents have been killed in airstrikes by foreign forces in the Garamsir district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Wednesday. The airstrikes were carried out in Zanziri Darab area of…
More than 70 cases of violence against women, including under-age marriages, have been registered in southern Helmand province so far this year, an official said on Saturday. Helmand Women’s Affairs director Qamar Niazi said this while launching a…
Thousands of Tangor and Kinnow saplings would be planted next years in southern Helmand province as the preliminary tests of the trees produced positive results, an official said on Wednesday. Agriculture Director Zalmai Aloko told Pajhwok Afghan News…
President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said all facilities of a first grade province for southern Helmand province would be considered and the Kajaki hydropower dam was being expanded. At the head of a high-level delegation, President Ghani arrived…
A resident of the Greshk district in southern Helmand province on Wednesday accused Taliban polls. Hazfizullah, who is being treated at the Bost hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News he was on his way from Greshk district to Kandahar…
Some polling stations in southern Helmand province remained closed on Sunday and others were not visited by voters, observers said. On the first day of the Wolesi Jirga elections, (October 20), some 38 polling stations were shut in…
A Wolesi Jirga runner Abdul Jabar Qahraman was killed and his seven supporters wounded as a result of bomb blast in southern Helmand province on Wednesday, officials said. Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
A suspected US airstrike killed one Afghan soldier and injured 29 others including police in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, sources said on Monday. A government source in Helmand told Pajhwok that American forces carried…
Hundreds of youth were rendered jobless after the completion of “Pak aw Zarghon City” project in this capital city of southern Helmand province, the world’s leading opium producing region. The $1.5 million project was launched last year in…
A sticky bomb affixed to a police vehicle went up in the capital of southern Helmand province on Saturday, leaving one person dead and a second wounded. The blast took place in front of the Bost hospital near…
Local security sources on Monday claimed a bomb making factory of Taliban militants has been destroyed in a foreign forces attack in Naad Ali district of southern Helmand province. A statement from 215 Maiwand Military Corps in Helmand…
A Taliban-fired mortar shell struck a civilian home in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, killing six members of a family, an official said on Monday. The district police chief, Mohammad Ismail Khpalwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Education officials in southern Helmand province on Thursday said about 120 schools which are closed due to insecurity would be reopened during the new academic year. Daud Safari, provincial education director, made these remarks during a ceremony marking…
Civil society activists in southern Helmand province on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against recent remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about his country’s share of water from the Helmand River. Zarif a few days back during…
The deputy provincial police chief for southern Helmand province and a senior Afghan National Army (ANA) official were wounded in a rocket strike in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Sunday. Col Guli Khan, the provincial…
The Taliban have forced private telecom companies into suspending their services in southern Helmand province, public representatives said on Tuesday. On the other hand, some residents of the province allege government officials accept money from private telecom firms…
A landmine blast killed four Afghan soldiers including a colonel in southern Kandahar province, where separately but near simultaneously a NATO gunmen on Thursday, official sources said. The Afghan National Army (ANA) troops from the 215 Maiwand Military…
Four members of a family were killed and ten others injured including women and children in a bomb blast inside a home in Garamsir district of southern Helmand province on Sunday. The district’s administrative chief, Sirajuddin Sarhadi, told…
Hundreds of people including clerics, tribal elders and residents in southern Helmand province on Sunday urged the government and the Taliban and arrive at the negotiating table. The gathering about the peace process was addressed by religious scholars…
KABUL’s prison during an operation in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province last night, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Friday. The commandos raided the Taliban jail in Baba Karez area and freed the inmates who had been…
Five out of 18 schools are open and the rest shut due to insecurity in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province, official says. Of every 18 schools, only one has its own building. Only the district center’s…
Eleven Taliban militants, including two commanders, have been killed and some others wounded during a clearing operation in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Salaam Afghan, the governor’s spokesman, told…
