KABUL on Monday praised Kandahar police chief for courageously responding to Friday’s cross border attack and demanded trial of Kunduz’s Qala-i-Zal district police chief. The skirmish between Afghan and Pakistani border security forces in Spin Boldak’s Luqman village resulted in…
KABUL, Kate O’Rourke, on Sunday said “hundreds of Afghan families are desperately fleeing armed conflict in (northern) Kunduz province.” “Many are accommodated with extended families elsewhere, but some have had to sleep in the open,” Kate O’Rourke was quoted as…
The Taliban captured the Kunduz-Khanabad highway after overrunning the Qala-i-Zal district of northern Kunduz province, officials said on Saturday. Rabbani Rabbani, a provincial council member, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban attacked highway on Friday morning and…
Provincial council members and residents of northern Kunduz province say heavy transport vehicles have damaged at parts the road to Sher Khan dry port, creating great inconvenience for commuters. Provincial council member Yusuf Ayubi told Pajhwok Afghan…
Despite security threats, the transport department of northern Kunduz province says it surpassed last year’s revenue target set by the ministry concerned. Kunduz City, the provincial capital, fell twice to Taliban militants, hitting hard people’s economy. But despite…
Traders, mostly small business owners, on Sunday shut the Sher Khan Port in northern Kunduz province in protest against absence of a Tajik consulate and some problems the neighboring country had created for them. They said besides…
KABUL families in northern Kunduz province by the governor, saying the move betrayed Afghan security forces. Reports had quoted Kunduz Governor Asadullah Omarkhel as saying he paid cash from the martyrs package of Afghan forces to 50 to 60 families…
Residents and officials say they are worried about illegal cutting down of forest trees in northern Kunduz province, asking the government to stop the practice. The residents said some local people and border police personnel at the…
Powerful individuals have usurped land measuring 250 acres at the Sher Khan dry port township in northern Kunduz province, the township’s officials said on Thursday. Sayed Maqsod Zadran, manager of the township, said the residential scheme had…
A number of government departments and powerful individuals owe millions of afghanis to the water supply department in northern Kunduz province, an official said Sunday. Farid Gul Sakhizada, the water and canalization department acting director, told Pajhwok…
A number of traders in northern Kunduz province on Sunday accused the Sher Khan dry-port enterprise of extortion, asking the government to address the issue. The businessmen who talked to Pajhwok Afghan News warned of closing down…
A 15-member group of suicide attackers was killed when the explosives-laden car they were in went off in northern Kunduz province, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Monday. A statement from the MoI to Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL attack on a security post on the outskirts of the capital of northeastern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban stormed a security post in…
KABUL commander in a drone strike in northern Kunduz province. A day earlier, the Taliban also confirmed losing Mullah Abdul Salam, their shadow governor for Kunduz, to the drone attack. “As part of an operation with Afghan National Defense and…
The Taliban-designated governor for northern Kunduz province has been killed in a drone strike, local officials said on Sunday. Asadullah Omarkhail, the Kunduz governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the shadow governor, Mullah Abdul Salam, was killed…
A Afghan military helicopter on Thursday performed emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area in northern Kunduz province, police said. Kunduz police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in the afternoon…
Local officials on Wednesday said the civil airport of northeastern Kunduz province has got a standard terminal worth $1.4 million. Governor Asadullah Omarkhel, during his visit to the airport, said the terminal construction process had begun four…
More than 60 percent of residents of the capital of northern Kunduz province have not been paying cleanliness tax to the municipality over the past many years, the mayor said on Sunday, calling insecurity a major challenge.…
Esmatullah, a ten years old boy who lost one of his legs to a mortar shell strike in northern Kunduz province, is hoping for peace and stability to come to Afghanistan so children of his age do not…
Women media activists say many challenges such as insecurity have resulted in a 50 percent decrease in females’ presence in local media outlets in northern Kunduz province. The worsened insecurity, absence of a proper working environment, discriminatory…
Residents on Thursday protested against a police clampdown on unregistered vehicles in the capital of northern Kunduz province, saying the campaign was economically hurting hundreds of families. Around 300 people, mostly drivers, took part in the protest rally…
Yasmin, a young girl who was recently kidnapped in the capital of northeastern Kunduz province, alleges she was raped 20 times in captivity. Kunduz crime branch chief, Waisuddin Talash, told Pajhwok Afghan News the girl’s family reported…
Twenty-five suspected criminals and terrorists have been arrested in northern Kunduz province, the spy service said on Monday. A statement from the National Directorate of Security (NDS) to Pajhwok Afghan News said the NDS personnel arrested the suspects…
Hundreds of doctors and health officials on Saturday boycotted duty and threatened widespread protests if their security was not ensured following the kidnapping of a doctor’s son in northern Kunduz province. The protesting doctors and health officials…
