SHIBARGHAN (PAN): Unknown gunmen shot dead an influential tribal elder in northern Jawzjan province, where a woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances, police said on Monday. Police Chief Col. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani told Pajhwok Afghan News the elder was…
SHIBARGHAN (PAN): Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum on Thursday returned 50 boxes of explosives belonging to the Mines and Petroleum Department of northwestern Jawzjan province to the authorities, three months after the explosives had gone missing. After the explosives meant…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Up to 225 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) were given carpet-weaving material in the northern province of Jawzjan, officials said on Tuesday. The assistance was provided by the Department of Refugees with the support of the United…
SHEBRGHAN (PAN): Four militants and an Afghan Local Police (ALP) member were killed and two others wounded during a clash in the Darzab district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Wednesday. The militants were killed during a clash…
SHEBERGHAN (PAN): A decline in wheat production this year has sent prices soaring in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Sunday. This year’s wheat production in the province was nearly 90,000 tonnes, compared with 110,000 tonnes in 2012, an Agriculture…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, was lit up with a system involving 481 solar panels funded by the municipality, officials said on Tuesday. The streetlight project took four months to complete at a total cost of…
KABUL): The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) on Thursday strongly condemned an attack on Jawzjan governor by gunmen loyal to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Armed men belonging to Dostum attacked Mohammad Alam Saee’ house but fortunately it was…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Hundreds of supporters of Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek community leader, on Wednesday protested against the provincial governor in northern Jawzjan province. The protesters accused Governor Mohammad Alam Saee of opening fire at Dostum two days ago when…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN. Mohammad Alam Saiee said Dostum men attacked his house in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, a former stronghold of the Jumbish leader, around 12pm. Saiee said his guards had been resisting the gunmen trying to enter his house. He…
SHIBERGHAN/FAIZABAD (PAN commander and an Afghan soldier died during a clash in neighbouring Badakhshan province, officials said on Saturday. Gunmen broke into a house in the Qarqin district centre on Saturday morning, killing a 20-year-old midwife named Ai Bikah, Jawzjan…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Work on two clean drinking water supply projects, benefitting 2,000 families, has been launched in northwestern Jawzjan province, officials said on Saturday. Funded by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the schemes include laying a 12-kilometre-long…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): The Darzaab district chief was injured in a suicide attack in northern Jawzjan province on Monday. The district chief, Rahmatullah Hashar, told Pajhwok Afghan News he was coming out of a mosque after attending a fateha ceremony when…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN attack on their checkpoint and a landmine in the Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province on Monday, an official said. The insurgents damaged the post and took away ALP weapons as a result of the predawn assault,…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Five kidnapped Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were found beheaded in northern Jawzjan province, where another man was killed, an official said on Wednesday. An ANA officer and four soldiers were found with their throats cut a day…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN in the northern province of Uruzgan, officials said on Sunday. The two local policemen were killed on Saturday night when Taliban fighters attacked their checkpoint in the Chakana village of Darz Aab district, the provincial police chief said.…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN) airstrike in northern Jawzjan province, an intelligence official said on Thursday. The militant commander was identified as Dost Mohammad, a member of the Taliban military commission for the Chahar Bulak district of Balkh province. A National Directorate of…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN forces in the Aqcha district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Friday. The overnight offensive was conducted in a mountainous rural area called Beshqal, Col. Abdul Hai Ramzi, police headquarters spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. “During…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN commander, who recently reconciled with the government, was shot to death along with two of his associates by his bodyguard in Mingajik district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Sunday. The midnight incident took place at…
SHEBERGHAN (PAN): A woman was beheaded by unidentified men inside her house in the northern province of Jawzjan, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Sunday morning soon after the husband of the 27-year-old left home, the administrative head…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): A newly-wed woman allegedly hanged herself to death at her maternal home in northern Jawzjan province, where 26 girls died last year in violence-related incidents, officials said Thursday. The 20-year-old was found dead in the morning in the…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN on Tuesday assumed her office in the Khwaja Dokoh district of northern Jawzjan province. Sahira Shakib Sadat, speaking at her inauguration, listed the protection of women of the district as her top priorities. Also an activist of the…
KABUL): A contract for a dozen development projects’ aid was signed on Saturday with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in northern Baghlan province. Governor Sultan Mohammad Ebadi, Deputy Senior Civilian Representative of Germany Bernd Kuebart, as well as a representative…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): The Human Rights Commission of northern Jawzjan province on Thursday condemned the killing of a young girl after she was sexually abused and urged authorities to mete out harsh punishment for the criminals, officials said. Two days ago,…
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Unidentified gunmen on Friday shot dead a local police commander along with a security guard in the northern province of Jawzjan, officials said. The shooting occurred at 8am when the gunmen entered the commander’s house in the Sherbak…
