Human rights

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

HERAT CITT (PAN): In compliance with a presidential decree, two murderers of Ali Sina, an eight-year-old son of a businessman, were hanged early Saturday morning

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

JALALABAD (PAN): Thousands of people rallied in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, against Pakistan on Thursday, supporting Afghan security forces. Afghan forces pulled

KABUL): The United Nations on Friday asked the US to close the Guantánamo detention centre, calling the indefinite incarceration of detainees a clear violation of

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

KABUL (PAN): The Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced its deep concern over plummeting people’s access to justice and law enforcement agencies,

KABUL’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced its deep concern over plummeting people’s access to justice and law enforcement agencies, claiming 45 percent

KUNDUZ CITY (PAN Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Sunday voiced concern over the execution of Afghan nationals in Iran, urging the government to step

LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 26-year-old resident of southern Helmand province, Noor Ahmad, who was released from 45 days in Afghan Taliban’s captivity in the southern Pakistani

 KABUL (PAN) Dozens of Afghan women rally to denounce violence against women in Kabul on Thursday.  The demonstrators want violence against women to be abolished

KABUL was no longer subjected to genocidal acts. Drafted by a Hazara poet, Kamran Mir Hazar, the letter, also addressed to EU leaders, said for