Abdul Ghaffar, a resident of southeastern Khost province who lost a brother to a car bomb attack, has urged the government to prevent the loss of innocent lives, seeking severe punishment for the perpetrators of attacks. In…
KABUL group in southeastern Khost province. The National Directorate of Security or NDS in a statement said the detained individuals wanted to carry out terrorist activities and to plant landmines but they were arrested. Without providing exact date for their…
In addition to economic issues, there are cultural restrictions which keep women from working as journalist in southeastern provinces, media representatives said on Saturday. Officials of media and journalists protection groups have asked the government and international…
A child was killed and another three civilians, including a woman, were wounded during a clash between the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Taliban insurgents in southeastern Khost province, the ANA said. A statement from the ANA’s…
Around three tonnes of expired medicines have been torched by the Public Health Department in southern Khost province, an official said on Wednesday. Governor Hakam Khan Habibitold Pajhwok Afghan News the spurious drugs had been seized from…
A dozen Taliban militants were killed during an early morning clash with security forces and residents in the Zazi Maidan district of southeastern Khsot province on Tuesday, police said. Zazi Maidan district police chief General Azizullah told Pajhwok…
Residents of the capital of southeastern Khost province say aerial firing at wedding ceremonies and other celebrations have put them at risk of psychological problems and urge the provincial authorities to take strong measures against the perpetrators.…
At least 21 schoolgirls fell unconscious and were rushed to hospital in southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, officials said. The girls were enrolled at Zarghona Ana School in Kajira village of Matoon locality in Khost City, the…
A presidential advisor on Thursday said the unoty government was committed to reclaiming lands related to teachers’ townships from their illegal occupants. Qamaruddin Shinwarai, advisor to President Ashraf Ghani on tribal affairs, told this at a ceremony…
A new pine nuts processing and packaging factory is being established in southeastern Khost province, officials said on Wednesday. Governor Hukam Khan Habibi, who laid the foundation stone of the factory, told Pajhwok Afghan News pine nuts…
A new building for the Independent Election Commission (IEC) office in southeastern Khost province is being constructed with financial support from Japan, an official said on Tuesday. The building is being constructed at the provincial complex located…
KHOST CITY (Pajwhok): Religious scholars and tribal elders in southeastern Khost province on Saturday said some circles within the unity government intentionally wanted to sabotage the peace process. The clerics and elders attending a gathering here warned if attempts at…
At least three people were killed in a drone strike on the outskirts of the capital of southeastern Khost province on Thursday, an official said. A local official, who wished not to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Construction work on the international airport has been resumed in southeastern Khost province after a two-year delay, but some people claim corruption in the project. First of all, the runway would be constructed and later other facilities…
Construction work on a USAID-funded road and a bridge has been launched in the southeastern province of Khost, officials said on Saturday. The seven kilometers road -- linking Khost City with Ghulam Khan dry port -- and…
The teaching hospital staff at the Sheikh Zayed University in southeastern Khost province has been receiving salaries without doing anything over the past many years. The four-storey teaching hospital’s building was constructed five years ago at a…
A Special Forces commander and his guard shot dead two women and injured three other people including a woman in southeastern Khost province, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday night when the Special…
Religious scholars on Wednesday said if Muslims shunned extremism, they would rescue themselves from all the problems they were in today. The scholars were speaking at a two-day Islamic and scientific conference in the capital of southeastern Khost…
The people of Zazai Maidan district in southeastern Khost province say no development projects, except those executed under the National Solidarity Programme, have been implemented in the district during the past 14 years. They say they have…
Two families in southeastern Khost province have agreed to end their 30-year-old enmity that had claimed the lives of three persons on each side. The rivals reconciled and vowed friendship following intervention of the Tribal Solidarity Council.…
The governor on Saturday said at least 10 persons turned to drug use every week in southeastern Khost province. Hukam Khan Habibi said this while explaining his administration’s previous 100-day action plan to a gathering in Khost…
A “500-years-old” copy of the holy Quran was handed over to the museum in southeastern Khost province by Governor Hukam Khan Habibi on Monday. Habibi told Pajhwok Afghan News the verses of the holy book had been…
The family who lost six members to a 2012 suicide attack in southeastern Khost province says the dead bodies remained at home for 24 hours because they lacked money to pay for burial…
Some female civil society activists in southeastern Khost province on Wednesday said they faced discrimination in government offices. They expressed these views during a three-day workshop on eliminating violence against women in Khost City, the provincial capital.…
