Pakistani forces have fired 157 rockets into eastern Kunar province over the past 24 hours, an official alleged on Monday. Police spokesman Farid Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News the rockets landed in Dangam district, causing no casualties. However,…
The Provincial Council PC) members of eastern Kunar province on Saturday strongly condemned a suicide attack that killed their colleague. The Friday’s blast killed PC member Sha Wlai Hemmat along with a religious scholar Maulvi Abdul Rahman. Kunar…
Nine Daesh or Islamic State militants were killed in separate US drone strikes in eastern Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, a military official said on Friday. Afghan National Army’s 201 Selab Military Corps spokesman Col. Sherin Aqa Faqiri told…
Local security officials on Thursday said Pakistani forces once again fired at least 83 mortars into different areas of eastern Kunar province. Police spokesman, Farid Dehqan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the mortars fired from across the Durand Line…
Health officials and residents say the number of youth using the synthetic drug crystal methamphetamine has increased by 60 percent in eastern Kunar province. Health experts say consistent use of crystal meth can result in severe anxiety, paranoia,…
Four Taliban militants were killed and three other wounded during a clash with security forces in Marwara district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday. Deputy police chief Lt. Col. Mohammad Zaman Aiar told Pajhwok Afghan…
Farmers in eastern Kunar province displayed their products at a day-long agriculture exhibition here on Sunday. The exhibition showcased agriculture, diary products, fruit, non-fruit and decorative tree saplings and different other handmade materials. Governor Waheedullah Kalimzai was present at…
Farmers in eastern Kunar province displayed their products at a day-long agriculture exhibition here on Sunday. The exhibition showcased agriculture, diary products, fruit, non-fruit and decorative tree saplings and different other handmade materials. Governor Waheedullah Kalimzai was present at…
Poliovirus has been found in sewers of some areas in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. Provincial public health and security threats in some districts of Kunar continued to pose a major…
Rockets fired by Pakistani troops into eastern Kunar province have left one person dead and eight others wounded, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Farid Dehqan told Pajhwok Afghan News that cross-border shelling hit Sarkano district late…
Fifteen Daesh or so-called Islamic state (IS) militants and three security personnel were killed during a clash in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, an official said. Abdul Ghani Musamim, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News another 22…
Residents and officials of eastern Kunar province say 95 percent of Asadabad, the provincial capital, has been constructed in violation of the master plan, creating problems for the people and the government. The master plan for Asadabad was…
At least 18 Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in two separate airstrikes in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Thursday. Kunar police chief Maj. Gen. Juma Gul Himmat told Pajhwok Afghan News…
A foreign forces airstrike left at least 12 Daesh militants dead in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. Kunar police chief, Maj. Gen. Jumma Gul Himmat, told Pajhwok Afghan News NATO-led drone targeted Daesh or so-called…
For the first time-ever, elderly women to make plea for peace, a gathering was told here on Tuesday. The jirga of elderly women would be formed soon to hold face-to-face dialogue with insurgents on strengthening peace and ending…
Three Daesh militants, including the group’s prisons in-charge, have been killed in an airstrike by foreign forces in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Sunday. Kunar police chief, Maj. Gen. Jumma Gul Himmat, told Pajhwok Afghan News a…
At least seven Daesh or self-styled Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in a drone strike in eastern Kunar province on Monday, police said. Provincial Police Chief Maj. Gen. Jumma Gul Himmat told Pajhwok Afghan News the NATO-operated…
Female prisoners from eastern Kunar province are kept in jails in neighboring Nangarhar province for the lack of required facilities. Official says the transfer of female prisoners from Nangarhar to Kunar for investigation is a problematic process. Prison…
Three uplift projects worth nearly 100 million afghanis have been launched in the Manogi district of eastern Kunar province, officials said on Monday. Provincial rural rehabilitation and development director Eng. Sifatullah Sharifmal told Pajhwok Afghan News on the…
The Kunar police chief says hundreds of Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) militants have emerged in the eastern province, receiving training from foreigners. Maj. Gen. Jumma Gul Himmat in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News said…
A US drone strike killed four Daesh or Islamic State militants, two of them commanders, in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province on Sunday afternoon, police said. The drone strike took place in Sapari area of the…
A fire inflicted heavy financial losses on people in the Manogi district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Wednesday. Governor’s spokesman, Abdul Ghani Mosmim, told Pajhwok Afghan News the fire erupted in Kandagal Bazaar of the…
Young cricketers and the game’s lovers on Tuesday carried out a protest demonstration to demand construction of a cricket stadium and an academy in eastern Kunar province. Former cricket board official Liaqat Hasrat, who led the demonstration in…
Daesh militant group’s recruitment in-charge for eastern Kunar province has been detained. In neighboring Nangarhar province, a bomb blast injured three civilians, officials said Tuesday. Kunar police chief Maj. Gen. Juma Gul Himmat said police arrested the so-called…
