Poppy cultivation in southeastern Paktia province has been brought down to zero but farmers remain deprived of necessary assistance, an official said on Sunday. Counternarcotics Department officials say poppy cultivation the level of poppy cultivation has been zero…
Some clerics and tribal elders in southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday urged the warring parties to renew their ceasefire and enter peace negotiations. The religious scholars and elders expressed these views at a gathering the about peace process…
A number of athletes in southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday complained about lacking gymnasium and other indoor sports facilities for excise especially in winter. They expressed these views at a ceremony held in Gardez, the provincial capital, to…
Women to renew their ceasefire and join the peace process. Gathering at Women’s Network office in Gardez, the provincial capital, the women said the Taliban’s three-day ceasefire with the government was a hopeful sign that proved all people…
The youth in southeastern Paktia province have launched a house-to-house and mosque and the government. The organizers and residents launched the campaign from a mosque in Tera area of Gardez, the provincial capital, to show the people are…
Gunmen attacked a police convoy carrying a Taliban prisoner in southeastern Paktia province, leaving five people dead including the prisoner and a civilian, an official said on Monday. The police vehicle was shifting the key Taliban prisoner from…
Nearly 250 million afghanis have been invested in southeastern Paktia province on goods’ producing factories, employing hundreds of people, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Naseer Alamyar, head of the Paktia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), told…
Thirty-three Taliban insurgents have been killed and another 16 wounded in Afghan forces’ airstrikes in Zazi-Aryub district of southern Paktia province, an official said Thursday. The airstrikes were carried out in Surkh Gul Dara, Zghani and Roydaro areas…
A car suicide bombing killed two people and seriously wounded a district chief and his guard in the capital of southeastern Paktia province on Saturday, an official said. The apparent target of the car bomb attack was Ahmadabad…
A car suicide bombing killed two people and seriously wounded a district chief and his guard in the capital of southeastern Paktia province on Saturday, an official said. The apparent target of the car bomb attack was Ahmadabad…
A new plan is ready to register seminaries in southeastern Paktia province which are out of the provincial education department’s framework, local officials said on Thursday. Additionally, more and well equipped centers for Islamic education would also be…
Afghan, NATO and US officials held a joint meeting on Thursday in the capital of Paktia province to discuss preparations for the Oct 20 parliamentary and district council elections in the southeastern zone. The governors of southeastern provinces…
President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday inaugurated five major development projects after arriving in southeastern Paktia province at the head of a high level delegation. The presidential delegation was comprised of six ministers, the Independent Directorate of Local Governance…
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, accompanied by a number of ministers, arrived in southeastern Paktia province on Sunday. The president will meet officials of the 203rd Thunder Military Corps besides addressing a gathering in Gardez, the provincial capital. Ghani…
UN Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Toby Lanzer, on Thursday said the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, should resume its operations in southeastern Paktia province. The UNHCR suspended its services in Paktia from about two years ago. However,…
GARDEZ (Pajhwok) Seventy-five percent of schools in southeastern Paktia province lack of their own buildings , local officials and residents say. There are total of 396 schools in the province, but 250 of them are without buildings, according to the provincial…
Around 2,400 power consumers in Gardez, the capital of southeastern Paktia province, were on Tuesday connected with permanent imported electricity supply from Tajikistan, an official said. Mohammad Asif Niyazi, Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) head for Paktia, told…
The provincial police headquarters building in southeastern Paktia province could not be rebuilt after being damaged in a powerful car bombing four months back. The lack of the police compound has created many problems for the police personnel…
Seven policemen have been killed in an overnight Taliban militant in Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Sunday. An eight policeman was injured in the attack on a police post in Naik area of…
Some residents and officials of southeastern Paktia province say the provincial civil hospital is lacking equipment and staff amid increasing number of patients. Paktia deputy governor Abdul Wali Sahi told Pajhwok Afghan News the Ministry of Public Health…
KABUL from Loya Paktia has thrown its weight behind the issuance of electronic National Identity Cards (e-NICs) and demanded legal action against those trying to sabotage the national process. Abdul Hakem Safi, head of the Youth Loya Jirga, told reporters…
A well-equipped tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment center has been opened in southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Saturday. Dr. Wilayat Khan Ahmadzai, the provincial public health. Ahmadzia urged all hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and senior doctors in Gardez…
Hundreds of residents of the Dand Patan border district of southeastern Paktia province on Tuesday protested against what they claimed “movements” of Pakistani troops along the Durand Line and fencing of the border. Few days back, Pakistan started…
Public representatives in southeastern Paktia province say recent high casualty attacks in the country were against Islam and humanity, urging increased security measures to prevent such incidents in future. The members of the Provincial Council believed the recent…
