Four people were killed and 10 others injured when a car came under a gun attack in Narang district of eastern Kunar province, officials said Wednesday. MulaviNajibullahHanif, Kunar information and culture director, confirmed the incident, saying four people…
Newly trained border guards from the First Border Brigade in the east are being deployed to newly-built checkpoints along the Durand Line in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, an official said on Sunday. Local officials say the barbed wire…
Four Solar Energy Parks at the cost of 92 million afs implemented against contract by Baldtak Engineering Construction Company (BECC), Pajhwok Afghan News reliably learned The Ministry of Agriculture on January 16, 2020 lease out the construction of…
Residents of eastern Kunar province on Thursday asked the government to reconstruct bridges on the Kunar River, saying the damaged bridges would be totally destroyed by winter rains if not reconstructed on time. During the previous government, the…
A three-day polio vaccination campaign was launched in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, targeting 192,000 children including 41,000 children left out in the previous campaigns, an official said. The mosque-to-mosque vaccination campaign would be implemented across the province,…
Security officials in eastern Kunar province say 65 people have been arrested in the past three months on charges of various crimes. Abdul Ghafar Zaki, Kunar deputy police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News 65 people had been arrested…
Residents of this capital city of eastern Kunar province say the prices of food and non-food items have increased beyond their purchasing power. Lately unemployment and poverty have increased and have confronted people with numerous problems. Sadiq Siyar,…
Three Taliban guards have been killed by unidentified individuals in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. Maulvi Najibullah Hanif, director of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, told Pajhwok Afghan News the attackers stormed a check-post in Chawaki…
The provincial capitals of Kunar, Logar and Paktika provinces captured by the Taliban while clashes are ongoing in Gardiz city, the capital of southeastern Paktika province on Saturday, officials said.
Ten thousand families have been displaced as a result of recent clashes in the Ghaziabad and Narai districts of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday. Governor Iqbal Saeed said 6,000 of these displaced families have re-settled…
Taliban were inflicted heavy casualties and their coordinated attacks were pushed back in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Thursday. Kunar governor Mohammad Iqbal Saeed and members of the provincial council told a…
One civilian was killed and two others injured in mortar shelling by Pakistani forces from across the Durand Line in eastern Kunar province, the governor said Friday. Governor Iqbal Saeed told Pajhwok Afghan News that Pakistani forces fired…
Taliban’s Red Unit deputy commander for eastern Kunar province has been killed and an Islamic State (IS) recruiter arrested in Nangarhar province, sources said on Monday. Kunar police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News that NiazSalim, deputy…
Police on Tuesday said 13 armed groups operated in eastern Kunar province, but none of them were able to capture any security position from Afghan forces. Col. Mohammad Yousuf Mazlumyar, Kunar police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Agriculture Unions in four districts of eastern Kunar province received one tractor each among other several machines, an official said Thursday. Kunar Agriculture Department Head Zia-ur-RahmanMomand said each union was given one tractor, a Zarang vehicle, a generator…
The Kunar Province Youth Civil Society (KPYCS) says it monitored different development projects as part of its fight against corruption and helped complete some schemes and prevented corruption in others. UNDP has recently established the KPYCS through its…
Taj Bibi, a resident of eastern Kunar province, says if the Taliban embrace peace, she is ready to forgive them for killing her three husbands. Her first husband, a resident of Marawra district serving in the Afghan National…
KABUL’s soil could harm relations between the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said on Monday. Five people were killed and injured as a result of Pakistani forces artillery shelling in Marawar District of eastern Kunar province on…
A baby girl has been killed and four civilians, including a woman, wounded in attacks by Pakistani forces in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday. Abdul Ghani Musamim, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Six Taliban militants, including three Pakistani nationals, have been killed during a clash with security forces in the Marwara district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. Abdul Ghani Musamim, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan…
The governor’s house of eastern Kunar has said it supports a Pajhwok Afghan News report regarding corruption in the free bread scheme. Pajhwok report showed that the government’s free bread distribution scheme in Kunar province suffered a…
The government’s free bread distribution scheme in eastern Kunar province suffered a loss of over 1.3 million afghanis as a result of corruption, Pajhwok Afghan News has learnt reliably. After the outbreak of the coronavirus, the government decided…
A key Daesh or Islamic State (IS) member has been detained during special operations in eastern Kunar province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Wednesday.
Five civilians were killed and nine more wounded after Pakistani forces fired rockets into two districts of eastern Kunar province on Wednesday afternoon, an official said. Abdul Ghani Musamim, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Pakistani rockets…
