Prisoners

HEART CITY (PAN, have been released from the central jail in western Herat province in compliance with a presidential decree, an official said on Wednesday.

KABUL-i-Islam (JUI), led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, has said. Maulana Gul Nasib, a central leader of the religious and political party, told reporters in Chakdara

HERAT CITY (PAN): Hundreds of prisoners on hunger strike at the central jail in western Herat province held five policemen hostage for a third day

FARAH CITY (PAN, more than 180 prisoners in the central jail of western Farah province on Thursday called off their week-long hunger strike. As many

FARAH (PAN continued their hunger strike in Farah prison for the fourth day on Tuesday, insisting their names were among beneficiaries of a recent presidential

FARAH CITY (PAN): More than 180 prisoners in the central jail of western Farah province continue to be on hunger strike since Thursday, an official

ASADABAD (PAN): Thirty-three prisoners were freed and the jail terms of three others reduced in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday in compliance with President Hamid

KABUL Journalists Centre (AJC) on Wednesday welcomed the release of Azizur Rahman Sakhizada, a Kabul-based reporter with daily Mandegar, from a police detention facility. Sakhizada

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN allegation that their 32 prisoners had been tortured to death in district jails. A Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi in a statement

KABUL): Up to 90 Afghan citizens are being held by British troops at Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province, the UK’s defence secretary admitted on

KABUL): Fourteen Afghan prisoners, who had been languishing in Tajikistan‘s prisons, have been handed over to Afghan authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on

HERAT CITY (PAN): Ninety-seven prisoners were released on Monday from the main prison in western Herat in province in compliance with a presidential decree issued