A HIV/AIDS and hepatitis-B-C treatment centre was inaugurated in southeastern Khost province on Tuesday. Governor Hukam Khan Habibi, while opening the center, told Pajhwok Afghan News the hospital’s building cost 56 million afghanis provided by the Ministry…
Civil society in southeastern Khost province. Except in hospitals, there are facilities like waiting rooms for women in Khost where women wait on roadsides for their relatives to arrive. Najila, a resident, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Date expired and low quality medicines, food products and alcoholic beverages weighing four tons were set alight at an official event in southeastern Khost province on Thursday. Governor Hakam Khan Habibi, who attended the event, told Pajhwok…
Provincial council members and a number of civil society activists in southern Khost province asked the US forces to open the road they blocked near their military base in the provincial capital. The road passing near an…
Rains-induced floods destroyed at least 200 shops and hundreds of homes in southeastern Khost province, also inundating hundreds acres of farmland in two districts, officials said on Thursday. Around 200 shops and two fuel stations and a portion…
A tribal elder was gunned down on Monday morning by unknown gunmen inside a mosque in the Alisher Tirazai district of southeastern Khost province, witnesses said. The elder, Habib Shah Khan, was offering morning prayer at the village…
At least three policemen have been killed and two other injured in a bomb explosion in Zazai Maidan district of southeastern Khost province, an official said Sunday. Gen. Raz Mohammad, commander for border police of southeastern zone,…
Residents are concerned about increasing armed robberies, target killing and kidnap incidents in the capital and far-flung areas of southeastern Khost province. Cases of carjacking, kidnapping, killing of people by armed robbers and targeted attacks have lately…
Hundreds of residents and government officials in southeastern Khost province on Saturday condemned anti-government protests in Kabul as ‘illegal.’ Addressing the demonstrators in Khost City, the provincial capital, Khost governor Hukam Khan Habibi said some regional spy…
Female activists in southeastern Khost province say women’s participation in culture related activities are almost zero, blaming the situation on the provincial Women’s Affairs Department’s inattention and inefficiency. Women in Khost do not attend official and unofficial…
Teachers on Monday called off their strike in southeastern Khost province after boycotting classes for three days over the delay in distribution of land plots to them. The teachers had been on strike in Khost City, the…
Teachers have closed 219 schools in southeastern Khost province in protest against what they say the government’s failure to distribute them land plots. The schools have been shut in Khost City, the capital of southeastern Khost province,…
Two police and three militants were killed in a clash in Bak district of southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, the district administrative head said. Abdul Hai Zazai told Pajhwok Afghan News that three Taliban gunmen stormed his…
Public health members of creating hurdles to efforts at the improvement healthcare services in southern Khost province. Dr. Gul Mohammad Din Mangal, acting public health director, alleged some lawmakers from Khost impeded attempts at strengthening health services…
The fiber optic project in southeastern Khost province took seven years to be completed instead of the promised six months, civil society activists and provincial council members say. They accuse the government of committing negligence in implementation…
Unidentified men spread night letters, supporting Daesh or so called Islamic State (IS) militants in Sabari district of southeastern Khost province, an official said Sunday. A local security official, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Forty-eight girls have graduated from a two-year professional midwifery and nursing course in southeastern Khost province, officials said Thursday, hoping the graduates would help reduce mother-child mortality rate in remote areas. Khost public health director Dr. Gul…
One Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and 29 other people, including civilians, were wounded on Friday in a car suicide bombing in southeastern Khost province. The early morning attack targeted an old building of the…
The governor on Wednesday said some political circles were creating hurdles in executing the campaign against land grabbing in southeastern Khost province. Hukam Khan Habibi added the political circles were creating hurdles to make the campaign against…
One attacker was killed and two others were able to flee after a botched attack on the military airport in southeastern Khost province on Saturday. Fazl Khuda, 203rd Thunder Military Corps spokesman in the southeastern region, told…
Periodic rocket and artillery shelling from Pakistan into eastern Kunar and Nangarhar provinces on Thursday sparked a protest demonstration by hundreds of people in southeastern Khost province. The demonstrators chanted slogans “death to Pakistan” and carried banners…
Hundreds of protestors in southeastern Khost province on Wednesday urged the central government to dismiss the governor and other provincial officials over what they claimed their involvement in corruption. The local residents staged a protest rally in…
Pregnancy-related and infant deaths have declined significantly in southeastern Khost province, thanks to a maternity hospital run by the Doctors without Border organization. The maternity hospital in Khost City, the provincial capital, started functioning in March 2012,…
A newly-constructed 100-meter long bridge was inaugurated in southeastern Khost province on Monday. The bridge that connects Trizu locality with the center of Ali Sher district cost 82 million afghanis provided by the Ministry of Public Works,…
