A drug addict has gunned his son and daughter and wounded his mother and before being shot dead in southeastern Khost province, security officials said on Saturday. Police spokesman Mustaghfir Gurbuz told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident…
A 60-meter long that consumed 40 million afghanis to be reconstructed after being destroyed by flood was inaugurated in southeastern Khost province on Saturday. Flood destroyed the newly reconstructed bridge in Mishkona area of Mandozai district a…
A group of youth in southeastern Khost province has started efforts to encourage poor and orphaned children to get enrolled in schools. The young men visit poor families in Khost City and districts, take pictures of children…
Security forces broke the gate of a trader’s house in this capital city of southeastern Khost province using a Humvee truck and beat his family members, a relative said on Monday. But police in a statement said…
The Customs Department in southeastern Khost province has collected nine billion afghanis in revenue over the past 10 months, showing a surge over the previous years. Customs Director Manzoor Ahmad Omar said in an exclusive interview with…
The price of firewood has more than doubled in southeastern Khost province compared to its last year’s rate, some residents complained on Monday. This year, a kilogram of dry firewood is sold for 12.5 afghanis while the…
Earthquake-affected families in southeastern Khost province say despite the passage of several months, houses are yet to be constructed for them as promised and they are still living in tents in the extremely cold winter. The earthquake…
The residents of Nadir Shah Kot district of southeastern Khost province say they lack access to enough health services and the government should make functional a 30-bed hospital built nine years ago in the district. They said…
More than 200 disputes among tribes over land, mountains, pasture and deserts exist in southeastern Khost province, also affecting government’s affairs, an official said on Sunday. Khost Justice Department director Maulvi Lahore Khan Wafadar in an interview…
Residents of Yaqubi Sabari district of southeastern Khost demand the inauguration and functioning of a 30-bed hospital built five years ago. The 30-bed hospital building was constructed five years ago at a cost of 65 million afghanis…
Dozens of youth underwent trials in Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Ghazni and Logar provinces about a week ago to be selected for the under-19 national cricket team, but many participants claimed the process was not transparent. Around five…
One hundred schools in southeastern Khost province have no building and their students attend classes under the open sky, an official said on Monday. One of these schools is Parkhai boys’ high school in SabarioYabubaio district that…
Three persons have been arrested for trying to smuggle a drone to a neighboring country, the Ministry of Interior says. Bakhtar News Agency quoted a MoI official Qari Ziarat Gul as saying that an operation was carried out…
The residents of southeastern Khost province have complained about the raise in the prices of second-hand clothes and said they could not afford them. For instance, they said that the price of a jacket jumped from 100 to…
Educational centers named ‘friendly classes’ have been established for hundreds of children involved in hard labor in southeastern Khost province. Maulvi Amir Sahib Jan Haqqani, director of social and labor affairs, told Pajhwok Afghan News that about…
Most pharmacies in this capital city of southeastern Khost province sell low quality and expired medicines to people, a number of residents say. They ask the government to prevent the selling of low quality and expired medicines…
Work on construction of canals was launched on Tuesday in this capital city of southeastern Khost province at a cost of 30 million afghanis. Local officials say the 2,300-meter-long canals are being fundamentally constructed in the second…
Shop owners at the market exclusively for women entrepreneurs in southeastern Khost province say their business has improved and they have so far faced not hurdle to their work. The two-storey market located west of Khost City,…
Documents and files of 2000 healthy people who received monthly stipends in the name of disabled people in southeastern Khost province have been cancelled, an official said on Tuesday. Khost Martyrs and Disabled department director Maulvi Abdul…
Costing 41 million afghanis, a number of development projects have been completed and put into service in southeastern Khost province. The schemes including a water head, retaining walls, water reservoirs and cleaning of canals, were executed in…
A cholera-like disease has spread in earthquake hit district of southeastern Khost province and has so far killed at least eight people and infected hundreds of others. The disease similar to cholera has spread in the Spera…
A mysterious disease, which is spreading fast, has killed hundreds of cattle in southeastern Khost province, residents and government officials say. The infectious disease, the cause of which is not yet clear, has killed hundreds of animals,…
The first quarter revenue of the municipality of southeastern Khost province has increased by 80 percent compared to the same quarter last year, the mayor said on Thursday. The mayor, Qari Bismillah Bilal, was speaking at a…
At least 500 ailing individuals on a daily basis visit the Sheikh Zayed University teaching hospital for treatment in southeastern Khost province. The teaching hospital was constructed 11 years ago at a cost of nearly one million…
