Nuristan

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Police recovered 1,200 bogus voter cards from a child in eastern Kunar province on Thursday, the provincial police chief said. Brig. Gen. Abdul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Senator Hafiz Abdul Qayyum has been appointed as new governor of eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Thursday. President Hamid Karzai approved

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A number of residents of eastern Nuristan province on Sunday complained about the absence of professional and competent teachers in educational institutions. Though

ASADABAD (PAN projects, local officials say. The Taliban had kept closed the road between Chapa Dara and the Wama district of neighbouring Nuristan for the

JALALABAD (PAN): Four people, including a policeman, died after being hit by an avalanche in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Monday. The incident

JALALABAD (PAN): The governor of eastern Nuristan province on Monday said he escaped unhurt in a gun attack involving armed insurgents, but his secretary and

ASADABAD (PAN): Amid looming winter season, the residents of eastern Nuristan province are concerned about roads blockades by heavy snowfall, which triggers food, medicines and

LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the

JALALABAD (PAN): Precious and semi-precious stones are being illegally excavated and traded in eastern Nuristan province in the absence of government’s writ, an official complained

JALALABAD (PAN) official said on Sunday. Izzatullah Haleem, the provincial IEC chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News during an interview that mobile teams had been sent

JALALABAD (PAN’s spy agency. Hailing from Pakistan’s northwestern valley of Chitral, the detainee had confessed to working for the Inter-Services Intelligence, a police officer said.

JALALABAD (PAN (UNAMA) has intervened to end a long-running tribal feud, which has caused hundreds of casualties, in the Kamdesh district of eastern Nuristan province.