Police on Saturday claimed busting a group of armed thieves in police uniforms in southeastern Khost province. The provincial police chief accused the gang of being involved in criminal activities and its members posing as policemen and…
Hundreds of people attending two separate protest rallies in central Kabul and southeastern Khost provinces on Saturday urged the Supreme Court to award harsher punishment to the detainees linked to the gang rape incident in Paghman town. Seven…
The governor on Monday directed security departments to take stern action against elements threatening government officials and tribal elders with death in southeastern Khost province. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi issued the directives at a weekly security meeting with…
Edible and non-edible items were distributed on Sunday to 3,000 more families displaced from Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan as a result of an ongoing military operation. They have taken refuge in southeastern Khost province. Baryalai…
Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal on Thursday inaugurated a newly constructed building for the customs office in southeastern Khost province and hoped the facility would help increase income and streamline customs affairs. Zakhiwal, who inaugurated the newly-constructed…
On Election Day, five children were killed and 17 others, including women, wounded when insurgents fired a barrage of rockets into the Alisher district of southeastern Khost province, locals said. Haji Turab Khan, a local elder, told…
Promising elaborate security measures on the election day, the governor on Sunday assured government officials would maintain their neutrality during the democratic exercise throughout southeastern Khost province. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi was talking to reporters on the sidelines…
Three children died and two others sustained injuries as a result of flash floods that swept through the capital of southeastern Khost province following heavy rains, an official said. The governor’s spokesman, Mubariz Zadran, told Pajhwok Afghan…
Construction work on an important bridge in the Zakhukhel locality of southeastern Khost province has been completed and the facility officially opened on Friday. Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi, who inaugurated the bridge, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Some political and religious groups, as well as tribal councils, on Thursday announced support the Change and Continuity team, led by presidential runner Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. Thousands of people gathered in Kabul, pledging they would vote for…
Residents say they are worried about the increasing number of plainclothes gunmen in this capital city of southeastern Khost province. However, local officials say the gunmen in plain clothes are not dangerous as most of them have…
Fourteen militants linked to the Haqqani Network have been arrested and a large amount of weapons seized from them during a search operation in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Monday. The militants were detained by…
Thousands of tribal elders and youth demanded respect to votes cast by the Afghans in the April 5 elections, asking the electoral bodies to be fair while assessing complaints and releasing results. Rasoul Muhammad Tanai, head of…
A mother and her two children were killed and her spouse injured during an overnight NATO airstrike in the Nader Shah Kot district of southeastern Khost province, the Presidential Palace said on Tuesday. The incident took place…
An election observer on Sunday said he was severely beaten after being abducted by some gunmen in southeastern Khost province. The victim, Ali Gul, alias Lemar Niazi, told a press conference in Khost City that he was abducted…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday said security forces shot dead two would-be suicide bombers in southern Ghazni and southeastern Khost provinces before the pair could reach their targets. In a statement, the MoI said a suicide…
Defence Minister Gen. Bismillah Khan Mohammadi reiterated on Sunday security forces had adopted all possible measures to conduct elections in a peaceful environment. He expressed the view at a high-level meeting attended by Khost Governor Abdul Jabbar…
Journalists in southeastern Khost and southern Helmand provinces on Monday expressed their deep sorrow and grief over the death of AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad in Thursday’s attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul. The journalists associated with…
Education Department officials on Saturday urged the government to address its problems, including a shortage of teachers, in southeastern Khost province. Addressing a new academic year ceremony in Khost City, Deputy Director of Education Matiullah Fazli said:…
Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi on Tuesday asked security organs to play an effective role in stopping deforestation in southeastern Khost province. He said the provincial authorities would plant thousands of saplings this year. As many as 6,000…
Construction work on three bridges is underway in full swing and would be ready soon for inauguration in southeastern Khost province, the governor said on Friday. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi, who visited the under-construction bridges in Maton Gulzar,…
Religious scholars in southeastern Khost province have demanded practical steps from both the Afghan government and the international community toward making peace talks with insurgents result-oriented. The ulema Sardar Mohammad Zadran, a former Haqqani Network commander,…
The Rural Rehabilitation and Development Department on Wednesday said 140 development projects would be completed by the end of the current solar year in four districts of southeastern Khost province. Director Mohammad Usman Mehdi, presenting the department’s…
A capacity-building centre for doctors and health workers, a US-funded project, was inaugurated in the capital of southeastern Khost province on Sunday. The centre in Khost City is part of USAID system capacity by increasing leadership, management…
