A slaughterhouse built on modern standards by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at a cost of six million US dollars was inaugurated in Reshkhor area of Kabul city on Thursday. Acting Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Minister Maulvi Ataullah…
Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), a four-day exhibition of agricultural and domestic products commenced in Kabul on Wednesday. The show titled ‘agricultural development guarantees people’s prosperity’ was launched in Badam Bagh area of…
A man was arrested with six magnetic bombs and two pistols in capital Kabul and 18 people were arrested for gambling in northern Balkh province, an official said on Monday. Ministry of Defense (MoD) spokesman Inayatullah Khwarzmi tweeted…
An exhibition of women-made handicrafts was launched in capital Kabul to support and motivate female entrepreneurs. The event is organized by Rahi Danish workshop which was established nearly three months ago by a group of related women in…
An Iranian trade centre in Kabul, signifying growing relations between the neighbours, is being inaugurated today (Sunday). A 70-member Iranian delegation, including representatives of Iran’s public and private sectors, has arrived in Kabul to attend the inaugural ceremony.…
One kilogram of meat is sold 30 afs to 70 afs higher against the municipality price list in capital Kabul, Pajhwok has learned reliably.
A number of destitute people in Kabul are complaining about a lack of transparency in the distribution of aid and claim mostly undeserving individuals are given the assistance, but officials insist the aid should be given in exchange…
Flour and gold prices decreased in Kabul during the outgoing week, but that of sugar surged, market sources said on Saturday. Fuel prices unchanged A worker at the Ahmadyar Group of Pump Stations said the price of one…
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) has collected more than 11 billion afghanis revenue from its Kabul consumers during the past 11 months --- 20 percent up compared to the previous year’s returns. DABS spokesman Hikmatullah Maiwandi told Pajhwok…
Construction work on the first phase of the road in front of the Chehal Satoon palace in the seventh security district of Kabul has been launched, the Kabul municipality says. The municipality wrote on its Twitter page the…
A woman in Kabul, who is teaching about 200 more women how to sew clothes, asks the caretaker government to support her to train more women in the profession. Rahima Hakimi, director of Razi Tailoring Course, told Pajhwok…
Four persons have been arrested in capital Kabul for allegedly taking money from people in the guise of security personnel, police said on Friday. Kabul police in a statement said the four criminals were arrested red-handed taking money…
Some residents and traders in central capital Kabul complain about the skyrocketed onion prices, saying the vegetable exports to Pakistan must be stopped. However, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) said cold storages are being…
A woman in this capital city has given birth to quadruplets, whose health is satisfactory, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on Sunday. Dr. Sharafat Zaman, spokesman for MoPH, tweeted that the quadruplets were born at a…
Afghanistan and Pakistan have inked a draft convention for the avoidance of double taxation, addressing a complaint frequently raised by businesspeople from both countries. Delegations from Afghanistan met and Pakistan met at the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan has strongly condemned the desecration of the holy Quran by a far-right activist in the Netherlands and asked the country to punish the perpetrator. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on…
The outgoing week saw the Afghan currency appreciating against the US dollar and the prices of sugar and fuel falling, however, the rates of gold and liquefied gas surged in Kabul Markets, The value of afghani surged by…
Reports about early resumption of passports issuance process are untrue, the General Directorate of Passports said on Saturday. The National Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) in a report quoted Noorullah Patman, the spokesman of General Directorate of…
The Kabul Municipality has collected 1,500 tons of expired food and healthcare items in Kabul. The municipality in a statement said these items were collected from shops, supermarkets and warehouses in the first police district and transferred to…
Internally displaced families are struggling to survive in this harsh winter in their makeshift shelters just outside Kabul and demand humanitarian assistance especially firewood and fuel. A severe cold snap has gripped many provinces, with the mercury plummeting…
Women commuters in Kabul say they are tired of the troubled irregular transport system in the city and ask the government to address the issue and resume the milli bus service in all parts of the central capital.…
At least five people were killed and several others wounded when a powerful blast targeted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in central capital Kabul on Wednesday, security officials said. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News…
The Beggars Collection Committee says about 22,125 beggars –1,646 of them professional panhandlers – have been rounded up in Kabul so far. The beggar collection process that began on August 13 is still ongoing in Kabul. Able-bodied male…
Many residents of Kabul city on Tuesday complained about frequent power outages, causing them problems in the cold weather. However, Da Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat (DABS) or power utility says Uzbekistan has not been supplying electricity to Afghanistan according…
