The Ministry of Vice and Virtue rescued a nine-year-old girl from being sold by her father to repay a loan in eastern Nangarhar province by paying the loan to the lender. The ministry warned both parties in such…
For the first time in eastern Nangarhar province, a charity has started free treatment of drug addicts and has so far treated 25 people. Another 40 people are under treatment with the private Ikhlas Charity Foundation being run…
Three people have been arrested for allegedly axing down forest trees in the Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Monday. Maulvi Abdul Sattar Mohammad, Director of Agriculture and Livestock of Nangarhar, said the three…
The residents of Momandara district of eastern Nangarhar province have constructed six classrooms on self-help basis in a school where students had no shelter. Local elders said as part of tribal tradition, each house donated money for construction…
Farmers and traders in eastern Nangarhar province say peanut yield has increased this year compared to last year’s harvest, but they need proper market to sell the groundnut. Local officials say peanut crop was planted on 240 hectares…
Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Thursday said three Daesh affiliates, including ‘a key member’ were killed during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province last night. On his twitter page, Mujahid wrote the Daesh men were eliminated last…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok: The Telecommunications and Information Technology Department of eastern Nangarhar province says it has extensively prevented the sale and purchase of unregistered SIM cards. However, local residents say kidnappers, armed robbers and other criminals still use unregistered SIM cards…
Female medical faculty students of the university in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday protested against the Ministry of Higher Education’s decision. This morning when students of the faculty arrived on the campus in Jalalabad, the administration of the…
Two canals have been reconstructed in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province with 12 million afghanis assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), provincial officials said on Tuesday. The canals’ reconstruction facilitated the irrigation of…
In eastern Nangarhar province, 148 schools are without buildings, 350 schools have no boundary walls and 221 schools lack clean drinking water, provincial Education Department officials said on Monday. Though teachers’ shortage issue has been 90 percent resolved,…
Thousands of students of 28 schools in eastern Nangarhar province were given stationery in cooperation with a Japanese aid organization, an official said on Monday. Nangarhar Education Department spokesman Farhad Ahmad Stanikzai told Pajhwok the students were distributed…
A minor boy has been arrested by police in eastern Nangarhar province for allegedly killing another child. Officials say the juvenile yesterday stabbed and injured a child who later died in hospital. Nangarhar police spokesman Abdul Basir Zabuli…
Lack of financial support could force the 50-bed coronavirus hospital in eastern Nangarhar province to shut its door imminently. Sources said the contract to finance and equip the hospital with HealthNet expired on Monday (December 5) and now…
The Ministry of Education has directed the Education Department of eastern Nangarhar province to take annual exam from female students of the 12th grade in cold areas of the province. The Nangarhar Education Department says the Ministry of…
Potters in eastern Nangarhar province are happy with their sales locally, but they urge the government to find international markets for their earthenware. They say the manual art and the ancient industry can play a positive role in…
Agriculture and Livestock Department officials in eastern Nangarhar province say 8000 tons of gur (brown sugar) will be produced from this year’s sugarcane harvest weighing about 75000 tons. Sugarcane is grown in Behsud, Sararud, Kama, Koz Kunar and…
The Canal Department in eastern Nangarhar province says it will send vegetables grown in greenhouses to other provinces in near future. Maulvi Ghulam Rahman Kazim, director of the Canal Department, told Pajhwok Afghan News cucumbers, tomatoes, green chilies…
At least two people were killed and three others injured in separate incidents of violence in eastern Nangarhar and northern Baghlan provinces, officials said on Thursday. One person was killed and two others injured during an armed clash…
A five-member group of kidnappers has been busted in eastern Nangarhar province, the General Directorate of Intelligence said on Monday. The General Directorate of Intelligence on its twitter page wrote Nangarhar intelligence forces arrested the kidnappers along with…
A man who looted people in the name of Taliban has been arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Sunday. The detainee confessed to taking money and other valuable things from people during raids on their homes…
Costing 10 million afghanis, two irrigation canals have been constructed in eastern Nangarhar province with financial support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Officials say thousands of acres of land will be irrigated after construction of the…
Journalists and media officials in eastern Nangarhar province complain economic problems and lack of access to information continue to hamper their work. Six cash-starved radio stations stopped their broadcasts in Nangarhar during the past one year and more…
Thirty talc processing factories have been shut in eastern Nangarhar province following a significant increase in customs duty on export of the product, the Talc Businesspersons Association said on Sunday. They said in the past five percent customs…
The commission tasked with reclaiming government’s usurped land in eastern Nangarhar province held its maiden meeting on Thursday. A statement issued from the governor’s house media office said the commission was established in compliance with the order of…
