A woman has been found stabbed to death multiple-times and her body’s parts, including lips, cut off allegedly by a brother-in-law in northwestern Jawzjan province, police said on Thursday. The victim, a 23-year-old mother of two children, was…
A possible suicide attack on a presidential campaign rally has been thwarted in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, the spy service claimed on Friday. A statement from the National Directorate of Security said the armed opposition…
The installation of gas turbine by an Indian company would help reduce electricity shortage in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Sunday. Residents of the provincial capital and some districts currently consume power imported from Turkmenistan. They…
A woman was gunned down by her in-laws in Jawzjan, taking the number of women to 32, police said on Sunday. Provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani told Pajhwok Afghan News the 21-year-old married woman had…
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a woman and her daughter in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, while another female was killed in the Yangi Qala district of Takhar province, officials said on Sunday. Col. Abdul Manan Raufi,…
Heavy snowfall, accompanied by a severe cold wave, has killed 10 people and 920 domestic animals in Darz Aab and Qush Tepa districts of northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Wednesday. Mohibullah, the Darz Aab district’s administrative head,…
Six people, most of them children, lost their lives to severe cold and a blast in Jawzjan and Farah provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Jawzjan deputy governor Abdur Rahman Mehmoodi told Pajhwok Afghan News four people, including…
Around 2,000 livestock have died because of cold weather amid heavy snowfall in northern Jawzjan province while another 25,000 cattle were stuck in snow-hit areas of the province, nomads (Kochis) said on Monday. “We have visited several times…
Living in a shelter in northern Jawzjan province, teenage girls on Wednesday complained against growing domestic violence, torture and forced marriage. Addressing a press conference arranged by human right groups and civil society organisations, the girls said their…
SHIBARGHAN (PAN): Participants of a huge gathering in this capital city of northwestern Jawzjan province on Sunday asked the government to adopt all possible measures to make peace and end the insurgency. Arranged by the Jawzjan Peace Committee, the day-long…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): A woman has committed suicide due to dire financial straits in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Sunday. Gul Jan, a mother of eight, hanged herself in the Saqz Kool village of Aqcha district on Saturday night,…
SHIBEGHAN (PAN): A father sold his minor daughter to a 35 years old man in return for some animals and food items, officials said Thursday. The sale of Ghancha Gul, 7, in northern Jawzjan province drew denunciation from human rights…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN commander has been killed along with two of his associates in the Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province, officials said Saturday. Aminullah, the district’s administrative head, said the militant commander -- Naqibullah -- and his accomplices was…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Gunmen loyal to Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum have allegedly attacked and beaten some residents of a village on the outskirts of Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province. Nearly 100 people, protesting in front of the governor’s…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN (JMIA) in northwestern Jawzjan province on Monday, an official said. Col. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, provincial police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the pair was on way to Qara Kunt from Shiberghan, the provincial capital, when two motorcyclists opened…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN interest. Hundreds of students took part in the demonstration on the Jawzjan University campus, denouncing some parts of the security deal and calling the consultative Loyar Jirga as illegal. A protesting student, Bahadur, said the Loya Jirga…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Police on Sunday detained three people in connection with the molestation of a teenage boy on the outskirts of Shiberghan, the capital of the northern Jawzjan province. Provincial police chief, Col. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, told Pajhwok Afghan…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN official in northern Jawzjan province, police said on Saturday. Identified as Maulvi Sohbat, the Taliban commander was arrested from the residence of Public Health Director Dr. Faridon Habib in Shebirghan, the provincial capital, on Saturday, a police officer…
SHIBERGAHAN (PAN): A bus terminal, costing $300,000, was inaugurated in northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, the Shiberghan mayor said. The project was funded by the municipality with id="mce_marker"20,000 contribution from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Mayor Eng.…
SHIBERGAHAN (PAN): A bus terminal, costing $300,000, was inaugurated in northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, the Shiberghan mayor said. The project was funded by the municipality with id="mce_marker"20,000 contribution from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Mayor Eng.…
SHIBERGAHAN (PAN): A bus terminal, costing $300,000, was inaugurated in northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, the Shiberghan mayor said. The project was funded by the municipality with id="mce_marker"20,000 contribution from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Mayor Eng.…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): A young woman suffering from a psychological ailment committed suicide by shooting herself with her father’s pistol in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Saturday. Capt. Abdul Latif, crime detective chief at the provincial police headquarters, told…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Five villages have been cleared of insurgents as a result of a security operation in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Tuesday. Shah Salim, Turkmen Oldi and Khanaqa villages in Faizabad district had been purged of fighters,…
