A man has shot dead his brother, nephew and injured two others, including his mother, in the Ghanikhel district of eastern Nangarhar province, police official said on Thursday. Police spokesman Abdul Basir Zabuli told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Farmers, who have grown melons on the land belonging to the Canal Department in eastern Nangarhar province, say natural disasters have damaged their crop this year. The affected farmers say in the past years, they would collect sufficient…
A passenger terminal has been built and put into service at the civil airport of eastern Nangarhar province. Commercial flights from the airport in Jalalaabd have not yet started, but officials say they are in talks with airlines.…
Another positive polio case has been registered in the Nazian district of eastern Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan. The Ministry of Public Health said the crippling disease was detected in a two-and-a-half-year-old boy in Landi Jami Jumat village. The…
A women’s business and investment chamber has been established for the first time in eastern Nangarhar province to work to resolve problems of women traders and investors in the eastern zone. The chamber announced its formation during a…
Two families reconciled and ended their 30 years old enmity in the Haska Mena district of eastern Nangarhar province after mediation of tribal elders and local officials. Originating from a land dispute, the enmity claimed the lives of…
A mentally-retarded person has committed suicide in eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Abdul Basir Zabuli told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Momandara district yesterday afternoon. He said 55 years old Rahimdad…
Female high school students who sat their final exams last year have also registered for this year’s university entrance test in cold areas of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. The female students belong to cold…
At least seven people have been injured as a result of a clash between cousins over land ownership in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Abdul Sabor Zabuli told Pajhwok Afghan News the clash…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok: A woman and a child were among four people injured in a traffic accident in Momand Dara district of eastern Nangarhar province. The Wednesday’s accident took place in Daki area on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway due to reckless driving,…
The municipality executed 14 reconstruction projects in Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, last solar year using its own budget, an official said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference here, Jalalabad municipality spokesman Bakhti Jan Murad…
Four members of a family have been injured as a result of roof-collapse in the Spinghar district of eastern Nangarhar province. The incident took place in Sarkhabzhay area of the district which resulted in the injury of four…
Authorities in eastern Nangarhar province have pledged the creation of a national park in the Dara-i-Noor district of eastern Nangarhar province. Dara-i-Noor district is blessed with natural beauty and the purpose of national park was to ensure the…
At least 200 drug addicts were rounded up on the first day of a campaign kicked off in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday, an official said. Naqibullah Rahimi, a spokesman for the Public Health Department, told Pajhwok Afghan…
The municipality in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, has completed eight projects out of 14 projects launched this year with a total cost of 290 million afghanis. Technical and sectoral affairs head at Jalalabad municipality Engineer…
A child was rescued from his kidnappers and reunited with family in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. One alleged kidnapper of the child was arrested in the Sayyaf Fameel area of Sararud district yesterday, the…
A new district ‘Torghar’ is being created in eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial government said on Monday. The creation of the district has been approved from Kabul and the rest of the work will be done in the…
A private company is investing 12 million afghanis to establish an orange orchard in Hadda Farm area related to the Canal Department of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. Dozens of people will find work opportunity…
Three water supply projects costing 10.7 million afghanis and bringing under irrigation hundreds of acres of land have been completed in eastern Nangarhar province. The projects, including construction of canals, waterheads and aqueduct systems, were executed in Achin…
Fourteen persons have been arrested and 331 kilograms of narcotics recovered from their possession in two separate operations in the Durbaba district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday. Abdul Basir Zabuli, Nangarhar police spokesperson, told…
Government land measuring nearly 3,000 acres has been wrested back from usurpers in the Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province. There was a dispute between two tribes on half of the land reclaimed, but no party possessed legal…
People living near the Kunar River and natural streams in eastern Nangarhar province say the government should construct retaining walls on the river’s banks to protect their crops and homes from being flooded each year. However, officials say…
Police have destroyed poppy, hashish and other similar illicit plants on 1500 acres of land in eastern Nangarhar province during an ongoing campaign, an official said on Wednesday. The cultivation of poppy and other similar crops has been…
The municipality has launched concrete work on a sub-road and on both sides of a canal along the road at a cost of nearly 12 million afghanis in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said…
