Local officials on Monday said a key Taliban commander and his bodyguard were killed while four others wounded during an attack of Afghan forces in southwestern Jawzjan province. On the other hand, Taliban say the people killed were…
Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock department in northern Jawzjan province says the Jangal Bagh garden will be revived. Agriculture director Mohammad Alim Alami told Pajhwok Afghan News that at least 40,000 saplings would be planted on about 500 acres…
Taliban militants have released 40 elderly individuals who were abducted two days back in the Faizabad district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The elderly men were attending funeral prayers for Allah Biran, an uprising…
Taliban militants abducted dozens of elderly men from Fiazabad district of northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, an official said. Alaf Shah Attai, the district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the elderly individuals were attending funeral prayers for…
Civil society activists in northern Jawzjan province buried a symbolic corpse of a non-asphalted road in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, on Monday. The protestors said work on the road was launched in 2014 with a stipulated two years…
A natural gas power plant worth $40 million has been inaugurated in Shebrghan, the capital of northwestern Jawzjan province, officials said Thursday. The project was inaugurated by Hamayon Qayumi, senior advisor to the president, during his trip to…
The governor of northern Jawzjan province on Monday warned private telecom companies of not allowing them operate if they failed to offer 24 hours service in the province. Telecom companies in Jawzjan have decided to cease their services…
Taliban militants captured Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province after two days of fighting with security forces, the governor said on Tuesday. Governor Mualvi Lotfullah Azizi told Pajhwok Afghan News clashes between security forces and Taliban gunmen…
More than 30 Taliban militants and six security personnel have been killed during an hours long clash in Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday. Jawzjan police chief Col. Abdul Wahid Wijdan said…
Three pro-government uprising members, who previously fought for Daesh, have killed six colleagues and injured two others in northwestern Jawzjan province. Mainullah, Qush Tapa district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Guzar village…
Six members of a family, including three women and a baby child, have allegedly been killed by an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander in northern Jwazjan province, residents and officials said on Sunday. The incident happened in Faizabad…
At least two people were killed and another four wounded after Taliban gunmen attacked a convoy of a private company’s vehicles carrying fuel in northern Jawzjan province on Wednesday, officials said. Feridon Aniq, the Jawzjan governor’s spokesman, told…
A widowed woman in northern Jawzjan province saved her seven children from begging on streets and made her life comfortable by selling dairy products in a misogynic environment. The woman, Sharifa, is 55 years old and is the…
Incidents of home burglaries have increased in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, residents complain, but police say a joint team has been formed to arrest armed robbers. Farzin Fahimi, a resident of Shiberghan, told Pajhwok Afghan…
A policeman and two rebels have been killed and three others wounded in a Taliban attack on security posts in Aqcha district of northwestern Jawzjan province, officials said Thursday. Col. Mohammad Ayub, police chief of Aqcha district, told…
Dozens of people with disabilities on Wednesday held a gathering in northern Jawzjan province and warned to boycott the Wolesi Jirga elections if candidates presented no special programs for them Around a hundred physically challenged individuals attended the…
Seven development projects have been put into service upon completion at a cost of 300 million afghanis in northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Sunday. Hashmatullah Ghafoori, deputy agriculture, irrigation and livestock minister and Governor Lotfullah Azizi and…
Three Uzbekistani friends of the Afghan Taliban were killed during a clash with police in Khamab district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said Thursday. The Uzbek nationals fighting alongside Taliban militants were killed after they stormed the…
Ten-year-old Zakia dreams to become a doctor but she is forced by poverty to make bricks with her little hands in order to support her family in northern Jawzjan province. Zakia currently lives in Khaton village of Shiberghan,…
A large group of Daesh insurgents on Thursday joined the reconciliation process in northern Jawzjan province, allowing thousands of displaced families to return home. The 250-member group, which had been active in Darzab district, was officially welcomed at…
KABUL, more than 150 Islamic State fighters have surrendered to the government in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Wednesday. A senior leader of the insurgent group, Maulvi Habibur Rahman surrendered to the security forces along with 152 loyalists, the…
Eight Taliban militants and six Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) rebels have been killed during ongoing clashes between the rivals in Darzab district of northern Jwazjan province, an official said Tuesday. Another nearly a dozen Daesh and…
In a rare development, a ten-member group of Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) has shunned insurgency and joined the peace reconciliation process in northern Jawzjan province, an official said Sunday. Deputy police chief Col. Mohammad Zalmai told…
Hundreds of Taliban and Daesh gunmen have been killed during ongoing clashes between the sides in Darzab district of northwestern Jawzjan province, local officials claimed on Wednesday. The officials said around 250 fighters on both sides had so…
