One civilian was killed and three others injured by Afghan forces during a mid-night operation in pursuit of a notorious rebel commander in the Babak district of southeastern Khost province, officials said on Tuesday. The governor’s office said…
With the completion of construction work, two mosques were formally handed over to the authorities in southeastern Khost and central Maidan Wardak provinces on Saturday, officials said. Both mosques were built at a cost of 36 million…
KHOST CITY (PAN and Khost City, officials said on Saturday, hoping the service would help resolve travellers’ problems. Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi, who was among government officials on the maiden flight that landed at the Sehra Bagh airport, told Pajhwok…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Nearly 500 deserving and repatriating families received food and warm clothing in aid in southeastern Khost province, an official said Thursday. Provincial Refugee and Repatriate Director Eng. Swat Gul told Pajhwok Afghan News the aid had been…
KHOST CITY (PAN in southeastern Khost province. There are around 20 private schools registered with the education department --- one each in Bak and Sabari districts and the rest in Khost City. Those in Khost City are operating in rented…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Construction work on the Khost-Ghulam Khan highway was officially launched at a ceremony in southeastern Khost province on Thursday, an official said. The 25-kilometer road, a $10.5 million American-funded project, would take 17 months to complete, Governor…
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Sunday accused Pakistani forces of carrying out a cross border rocket attack that killed one civilian and injured two others in southeastern Khost province a day earlier. The ministry in a…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KHOST CITY (PAN. Khost IEC chief Shafiq Ahmad Wafa told participants of an awareness programme in Khost City that despite various efforts at encouraging women to obtain voter cards, their participation had been far from satisfactory in rural areas. “The…
KHOST CITY (PAN living in remote parts of southeastern Khost province have been complaining about the lack of essential healthcare services and their access to lady doctors. The absence of lady doctors in health clinics in districts and ill-time time…
KHOST CITY (PAN Investment Support Agency (AISA) has said the eastern Khost province offer immense and vast investment opportunities. Most of the construction work of an industrial park has been completed in the province, the AISA informed. Insecurity and…
KHOST CITY (PAN): With officials giving no exact figures for burglaries in this capital of city of southeastern Khost province, residents said on Wednesday a number of robberies have been carried out in the recent past, involving armed men in…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Senior civilian and security officials on Sunday attended a day-long conference discussing how to overcome security challenges in southeastern Khost province. In his address, Governor Abul Jabbar Naeemi told participants his administration’s main goal was to deal…
KHOST CITY (PAN institutes would be built and reconstructed in southeastern Khost province. Inaugurating a newly-constructed mosque in Tanai district, Abdul Jabbar Naeemi told Pajhwok Afghan News the mosques and centres to be reconstructed included mosques and seminaries. Naeemi said…
KHOST CITY (PAN in Tanai district. Flanked by officials, scholars and tribal elders, Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi cut the ribbon to open the mosque, funded by the Hajj and Auqaf Department. Speaking on the occasion, Hajj and Auqaf Director Maulvi…
KHOST CITY (PAN), the governor’s house said. Accompanying by high-ranking military officials, Governor Abdul Jabbar Naeemi visited the Salerno base said Afghan forces would benefit from taking charge of the facility. In a statement from his office, the governor asked…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Security forces shot dead a would-be suicide bomber in the Tanai district of southeastern Khost province early Saturday morning, the governor's office said. The man wearing an explosives vest was gunned down after being positively identified by…
KHOST CITY (PAN members in southeastern Khost province on Monday condemned attacks on people inside mosques. At a meeting attended by 300 people in the Afghanistan Tribal Solidarity Council’s office in Khost province, they stressed an immediate end to attacks…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Pine nuts prices dropped during the current year, inflicting losses on producers, who urged the government to find a profitable market for the dried fruit. Hundreds of residents, including women and children, of Khost City are involved…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Government officials, tribal elders and residents in southeastern Khost province on Friday called for the assassins of Logar governor Arsala Jamal to be identified and punished. The call came at a gathering held in Khost City, the…
GARDEZ (PAN) has left thousands of people jobless and the economic situation affected in the southeastern province. Naeemi was talking to a group of local and foreign journalists at the 203rd Thunder Military Corps headquarters in Gardez, the capital of…
KHOST CITY (PAN’s decision unseating interior minister Mujtaba Patang. The council chief, Syed Karim Khan Khaksar, told Pajhwok Afghan News the lower house’s decision was unjust and unacceptable to the people of Khost. He said the decision was wrong because…
KHOST CITY (PAN, on Sunday morning, official and residents said. Mohammad Younus, the Ismail Khail Mandozai district chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the gunmen mounted an attack on the home of his counterpart for Spera town, Mohammad Azim, in Lalma…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Wheat production has decreased in southeastern Khost province this year for different reasons, officials said on Monday. The yield fell due to heavy rainfall that caused the rust disease to the crop and import of seeds that…
