The public health director of southeastern Khost province was shot injured in an insurgent attack on Wednesday, officials said. The shooting took place in the Matoon area of Khost City at around 8am, when the acting public…
A widow, who lost her husband in a suicide explosion, in southeastern Khost province complains she has been struggling to feed her children in the face of extreme poverty. Shakila, 35, told Pajhwok Afghan News she was…
Officials, traders and residents on Thursday accused the central government of paying little heed to the Khost-Ghulam Khan transit route. Former president, Hamid Karzai, had approved the construction of the transit route in 2003. But the project…
Senior provincial officials on Tuesday said they were sternly dealing with drug producers, traders and smugglers in southeastern Khost province. These views were expressed by the provincial governor, Hukam Khan Habibi, and police chief Brig. Gen. Faizullah…
The Gharghakht TV has won a soccer event titled Khpal Watan, Gul Watan (Own Land, Floral Land) played in the capital of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Sunday. A dozen of soccer teams, including six…
Afghan refugee families returning from Pakistan in southeastern Khost province, an official said. IOM official in Khost Abdul Qayum Sharafat told Pajhwok Afghan News the aid was distributed to refugees who had been illegally living in North…
A bomb explosion inside a medicine store killed one civilian and injured five others in southeastern Khost province on Thursday, an official said. Provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Faizullah Ghirat told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion took…
A newly-created political foundation of former jihadi, a member of the party said on Sunday. The creation of the new party “Grand Council of Afghanistan’ was announced on Sunday in southeastern Khost province. The council’s head, Mulavi…
Rural Rehabilitation and Development Minister Nasir Ahmad Durrani on Thursday said his ministry planned to carry out 643 development projects at a cost of $16 million in southeastern Khost province next solar year. Addressing a gathering of…
A plan is being devised to register thousands of non-customs-paid (NCP) vehicles in southeastern Khost province, officials say. The Khost Traffic Department estimates at 50,000 the number of NCP vehicles in the province. About 30,000 of these…
The governor of southeastern Khost province on Monday said the judiciary could bring about prosperity to the society through its independent and impartial verdicts in accordance with the country’s laws. Kukam Khan Habibi was addressing a gathering…
Work on putting down a 33-kilometre optic-fiber cable between the provincial capital and Ghulam Khan dry port was launched on Thursday in southeastern Khost province. The optic-fiber cable would be extended to the port near the Pakistan…
“If coordination between security and revenue collection departments is strengthened, it would lead to increased income,” says the economy department head for southeastern Khost province. Economy Director Eng. Hamid Shah told this to a two-day seminar organized…
Impoverished women heads of families in southeastern Khost and Paktia provinces on Wednesday urged donors to help address their financial woes. The Tribal Liaison Office (TLO) has launched a programme to assist widows and poor women with…
An advisor to the Chief Executive Officer on Thursday said some foreign and local elements by stoking ethnic tensions wanted to divide Afghanistan into several parts. Syed Agha Sanchakari said this while addressing a gathering of tribal…
Two persons were killed and seven others wounded when a bomb blast targeted the vehicle of a provincial council member in southern Khost province on Wednesday, an official said. Governor’s spokesman Mubariz Mohammad Zadran told Pajhwok Afghan…
Civil and military officials of southeastern Khost and Paktia provinces say they are working a join security plan aimed at defeating militants and preventing their activities. This was stated by the governors and security officials of the two…
KHOST CITY/KABUL, The New York Times reports on Thursday. A dozen insurgents were killed and 20 others wounded during the airstrike in Khost province near the North Waziristan tribal region --home to Pakistani and foreign rebels. Khan Saeed Sajna, a…
A new building for the education department was inaugurated in southern Khost province on Wednesday, an official said. Governor Hakam Khan Habibi, during the inauguration ceremony for the three-storey building, told Pajhwok Afghan News the facility had…
A female member of the provincial council of southeastern Khost province has been disqualified and replaced by her runner up in the provincial council elections. Khost Independent Election Commission head Abdul Rahman Mohabbat introduced the new provincial…
A civilian and a bomb planter were killed and a civilian wounded in an explosion in southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in a mechanic market, closed to the Azizi Bank…
At least six Uzbek insurgents have been killed during an operation by foreign forces in the Spera district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Monday. Mohammad Azim Mujahid, the district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Afghan Special Forces have killed two more civilians during a nighttime raid in southeastern Khost province, an official claimed on Wednesday. Deputy Governor Abdul Wahid Patan told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in the Darwazgi…
Afghan special security forces have killed two civilians and arrested as many others in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Saturday. Governor Hukam Khan Habibi confirmed the shooting of two civilians in security forces raid which…
