As part of the municipality’s program to decorate and beautify Kabul city, a newly-built world map in circle shape was inaugurated in Dahni Bagh Square on Tuesday. Mawlavi Khalid Sajistani, urban municipal affairs department head of Kabul Municipality,…
Armed attack on a hotel in the Shahr-i-Naw area of capital Kabul ended after the killing of three assailants, according to the ‘Islamic Emirate’ spokesperson on Monday. Emergency Hospital on its Twitter handle wrote that three bodies and…
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) says yet another cash package of $40 million on Tuesday arrived in Kabul as part of the global fraternity’s continued humanitarian assistance. The central bank tweeted that sending humanitarian aid through the banking sector…
Five alleged armed robbers and car-lifters have been arrested in the limits of the 8th police district of Kabul, a police official said on Tuesday. Mualvi Fazal Rahman Zahir, police chief for the 8th police district, said the…
Six members of a family have died of suffocation due to a gas leak in their house in Kabul city. Bakhtar News Agency quoted security officials as saying that the incident took place in Taimani area in the…
Police have arrested two persons for making fake passports and a third person on theft charges in Kabul. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the men were arrested in the third security district of Kabul. The detainees included…
Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a youth in the 12th security district of Kabul city. Kabul Police Headquarters tweeted the suspects snatched car from a young man in the Ahmad Shah Baba…
Five members of a family have been gunned down in limits of the 9th police district of Kabul, a police official said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Khalid Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News: “A man shot dead five members…
Da Afghanistan Bareshna Shirkat or power utility says Uzbekistan has reduced electricity supply to Kabul from 430 to 200 MW due to technical problems. DABS operations director, Safiullah Ahmadzai, told a press conference here that they had been…
Air pollution in Kabul city has reduced due to the decrease in the number of residents, vehicles and industries in the central capital, local residents said on Saturday. Prior to the political change in the country, Kabul city…
Sellers of heaters in capital Kabul say the price of locally produced wood heaters has decreased, but that of Turkish heaters has surged with the arrival of winter. Bismillah, a seller of domestic heaters in Kabul, told Pajhwok…
KABUL (Pajhwok: The Ministry of Vice and Virtue says it has installed 400 loudspeakers in different areas of Kabul city for azaan recital simultaneously. Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the minister’s spokesman, said 400 loudspeakers have been installed in the entire city…
Five Daesh or Islamic State affiliates were killed during an operation on their hideout in Kabul last night, the General Directorate of Intelligence said on Sunday. On its twitter page, the General Directorate of Intelligence wrote that the…
More than 17000 beggars have so far been collected from various areas of Kabul city, the government said on Saturday. In a press release, the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs office said the beggars collection committee had…
Petrol and diesel prices decreased but that of gold and gas surged in Kabul markets during the outgoing week, market sources said on Saturday. According to an employee of the Ahmadyar Group of Pump Stations, the price of…
Security cameras have been installed at all intersections of Kabul city and local residents have also installed the cameras at 2000 houses, a campaign still ongoing. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan News the campaign to…
A blast hit a businessman’s vehicle in Karti Naw area of Kabul, but caused no casualties, police said on Thursday. The blast took place in the jurisdiction of the 8th security district of Kabul city,. Khalid Zadran, Kabul…
Some Kabul city residents complain about the lack of an organized and proper intra-city public transport system, while officials say they have taken some measures in this regard. Pajhwok Afghan News talked to a number of Kabul residents…
Some unneeded departments have been dissolved and their employees appointed in other departments, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Maulvi Abdul Salam Sadat said on Sunday. Sadat told reporters here that a complex for the treatment of drug addicts…
Seventy-five tonnes of pine nuts worth $1,650,000 have been exported to China through land route, an official said on Tuesday. Ehsanullah Fitrat, director Export Development of the Ministry of Commerce, said for the first time 75 tonnes of…
The beggars collection committee on Sunday announced collecting 14,393 beggars in the past three months in Kabul. Of the total14,393 beggars, 56 are children with no guardians, 5,618 poor people and 8,719 are professional beggars. The beggars’ collection…
Mirza Mohammad Katawazi was elected as president of the Kabul moneychangers union on Wednesday. Katawzai replaces Mirafghan Safi who served as the union president for three years and was also a candidate in today’s elections, seeking a second…
Car dealers in Kabul say their sales have tumbled due to people’s poor economic situation and the car prices have also significantly decreased compared to the past. Haji Wafa, a car seller in Kabul, told Pajhwok that well-off…
A four-day exhibition showcasing agricultural and domestic products titled ‘Standard agriculture guarantees the country’s economy’ commenced in Kabul’s Badam Bagh area on Wednesday. Agricultural, horticultural, diary products, processed products, handicrafts, agricultural machinery, saffron, medicinal herbs and plants, irrigation…
