Borders and Tribal Affairs Minister Mohammad Gulab Mangal on Saturday said 250 students of eastern Kunar province would be enrolled in high schools in Kabul. Mangal visited the eastern province and attended a gathering participated by local officials…
Borders and Tribal Affairs Minister Mohammad Gulab Mangal on Saturday said 250 students of eastern Kunar province would be enrolled in high schools in Kabul. Mangal visited the eastern province and attended a gathering participated by local officials…
A third polio case has been detected in eastern Kunar province, an official of public health department in the remote province said on Wednesday. Public health director Dr. Ihsanullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News that Zahidullah son of…
A second polio case has been detected in eastern Kunar province, the public health director said on Saturday. Dr. Ihsanullah Fazli told Pajhwok Afghan News the one-year-old child, son of Abdul Wali, belonged to Wand village of Shultan…
Students of the Syed Jamaluddin Afghan University in eastern Kunar province complain about lack of hostel and other facilities on the campus. Some 4,500 students have been studying in the Syed Jamaluddin Afghan University, with hundreds more fresh…
Triggered by recent heavy rains, landslides have blocked some roads in eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces, an official said on Saturday. Roads leading to Asadabad, the provincial capital of Kunar, Narai and Ghaziabad districts have been blocked following…
A newly-constructed 10.75-kilometre road was inaugurated in the Narang district of eastern Kunar province on Thursday. More than 7,000 families in 15 villages of Badail valley would benefit from the road. “Our village had no road and people…
Two children were among four people killed as a result of rockslide on a house in the eastern province of Kunar on Saturday, an official said. The incident took place in the morning when a rock fell from…
One Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier was killed and another seven, including one civilian, were wounded on Thursday when a magnetic bomb attached to the ANA vehicle went off in eastern Kunar province, officials said. Brig. Gen. Abdul…
Officials on Saturday said nearly 1,000 people, a majority of them militants, have been killed and wounded in violence related incidents during the past one year in the mountainous eastern province of Kunar. The dead included 250 militants,…
At least five insurgents have been killed and another six wounded during a clash with security forces in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkheli, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
One civilian was killed and 14 others injured after Taliban fired bullets and rockets for several hours into villages in the Marawara district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. Deputy Kunar police chief Col. Sayed…
Saturday’s deadly suicide attack in eastern Kunar province claimed the lives of three brothers, all breadwinners for their 21 family members, including their elder parents. At least 13 people including tribal elder Haji Khan Jan were killed and…
Most of the 13 people killed in Saturday’s suicide attack in eastern Kunar province were roadside vendors, officials and eyewitnesses said. Another 40 people, mostly civilians, were wounded in the attack that took place in Shahidan square near…
At least 13 people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the governor’s office in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province. Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai told Pajhwok Afghan News 40 people were wounded…
Many residents say non-custom-paid (NCP) vehicles have increased insecurity and traffic problems in eastern Kunar province. One of them, Mohammad Shoaib Gharwal, a resident of Marawara district, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the security situation could be improved…
His four-year-old son and a student brother were killed in a US drone strike back in 2013, but the incident is yet to be investigated, a resident of eastern Kunar province said on Sunday. The drone strike on…
Two children were killed as a result of a warhead blast of a shell in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. The incident took place in Manogi district on Tuesday evening when the shell a boy…
A convoy of vehicles carrying the governor and other senior officials came under attack in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, but there were no casualties. The convoy carrying Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai, police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel,…
Hundreds of tribal elders and religious scholars on Tuesday gathered in eastern Kunar province and voiced their support for Saudi Arabia in the kingdom’s row with Iran, saying the protection of the sacred places was duty of every…
ASADABAD (Pajhowk): Hundreds of people on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in eastern Kunar province, demanding the construction of a hydropower dam in the province. One of the participants, Maulvi Mohammad Anwar, told Pajhwok Afghan News the government should construct…
Four children were killed by a blast from an unexploded mortar shell in the eastern province of Kunar, an official said on Friday. The shell exploded on Thursday evening when the children, who found it, were playing with…
Two Afghan soldiers and four militants have been killed during separate incidents in eastern Kunar and Laghman provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The two Afghan National Army (ANA) troops were killed and as many wounded in a roadside…
The revenue department head for eastern Kunar province on Sunday said they had collected 30 percent more revenue this year than the target the Ministry of Finance had set for the province. The ministry had set the provincial…
