KHOST CITY (PAN from southeastern Khost province, the governor’s house said. The detainees wanted to enter Pakistan for training in suicide bombing when they were apprehended near the Durand Line, the governor’s house media centre said in a statement. They…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Local officials say that the Khost province has witnessed enhanced stability with security parameters extended to border areas, enabling the government to gain enough control over remote districts. Giving details of security in the restive province, Khost…
Khost City (PAN Director Bakhtnor Bakhtyar said that the education sector faces daunting challenges however, some progress has been made to promote and enhance the literacy rate in the southeastern Khost province. “Most of the schools have no proper buildings…
KHOST CITY (PAN): A newly-constructed building for the juvenile correction centre was inaugurated in southeastern Khost province on Sunday, an official said. The building, constructed in seven months, cost 17 million afghanis provided by US forces in the province, Governor…
KHOST CITY (PAN facilities and improved seeds as their main problems, requesting officials to address these issues. Noor Shah Khan, a tribal elder from Sabari district, told Pajhwok Afghan News that there was only one health clinic at district level,…
KHOST CITY (PAN): The residents of southeastern Khost province demanded from Afghan government and international community, the construction of Khost-Gardez highway, Khost International Airport, Khost-Ghulam Khan road, water and power dams. Security and execution of infrastructure projects were some of…
KHOST CITY (PAN): The provincial council office in southeastern Khost province was closed by its members on Monday, saying most of police guards keeping security for the office had been called back to their headquarters. Syed Karim Khan Khaksar, the…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Two newly-constructed schools, benefitting 1,500 boys and girls, were on Thursday inaugurated in southeastern Khost province. Government officials, tribal elders, teachers and students attended the inauguration ceremony held in the Azad-i-Mena area on the outskirts of Khost…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Two people were killed and thousands of acres of farmland destroyed by floods in southeast Khost province, an official said on Monday. The Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) provincial head told Pajhwok Afghan News that a…
KABUL in Kabul, Baghlan and Kunduz provinces for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, officials said. In the heavily-fortified central capital, hundreds of special people staged a protest in front of the Eidgah Mosque against Pakistan’s attacks on Afghan border…
MAHMOOD RAQI/KHOST CITY (PAN and showed their willingness to defend the country. Pakistan has been firing missiles into Afghanistan’s border areas over the past couple of years, but the situation deteriorated in recent days after its forces established a gate…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Family members of Muhammad Qasim, a soldier killed in a clash with Pakistani forces in eastern Nangarhar province, received cash support from tribesmen in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Saturday. Kiramat Khan Khpalwak a member…
KHOST CITY (PAN in southeastern Khost province late on Thursday, officials said. Police Chief Abdul Qayum Baqizoy confirmed the rebels had attacked a township located between Mandozai and Ismaikhel districts west of Khost City, the provincial capital. He said police…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Foreign troops killed a tribal elder and injured his wife and detained four other people during an operation in the southeastern province of Paktia, an official said on Wednesday. The operation involving ISAF troops was conducted in…
KHOST CITY (PAN): A specialization programme for doctors was launched at a ceremony in southeastern Khost province on Thursday, officials said. Governor Abdul Jabar Naeemi, Public Health Director Dr. Amir Shah Rahmatzai Mangal, lecturers of the medical university and medical…
KHOST CITY (PAN Investment Support Agency (AISA) was launched in southeastern Khost province on Wednesday. Governor Abdul Jabar Naeemi told the launching ceremony the three-storey building would have rooms for administration officials and a guest house. The building in Khost…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Nearly 94 suicide attacks were prevented and 27 would-be bombers captured in southeastern Khost province over the past one year, officials said on Saturday. Deputy intelligence chief, Adam Khan Zurmati, told a press conference in Khost City…
KHOST CITY (PAN): A powerful figure in southeastern Khost province on Thursday criticised the election commission for indicating that no voting centres would be set up in insecure areas during next year’s presidential and provincial council polls. Fazal Ahmad Manawi,…
KHOST CITY (PAN): An abducted child was rescued in the Qalandar district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Sunday. The release came as a result of a special operation, provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Qayyum, told Pajhwok…
KHOST CITY/JALALABAD (PAN): A logistic officer of the central jail was killed along with a policeman in southeastern Khost, while four suspected rebels were captured in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Wednesday. The logistic officer and the policeman were…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Thirty-one illegally appointed employees are working at customs house and revenue departments of southwestern Khost province, the governor’s office said on Tuesday. The individuals were appointed in violation of the presidential decree 987, dated April 21, 2012,…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Most buildings in southeastern Khost province are being constructed without government permission and in violation of the prescribed regulations, an official acknowledged on Sunday. Under urban development ministry rules, a building has to be erected eight metres…
KHOST CITY (PAN): A member of Afghan National Police (ANP) shot dead his commander in the capital of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Sunday. As a result of the shooting at a juvenile correction centre in Khost City,…
FARAH CITY (PAN and five men have lost their lives to domestic violence in western Farah province over the past year, an official said on Sunday. Included in the 154 cases of violence are the killings of 23 women, 64…
