Hundreds of protestors in the capital Kabul on Monday demanded implementation of a multinational power project through central Bamyan province, accusing the government of discrimination. The Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TUTAP) power project will import 500kv of electricity from the Central…
Dozens of Afghans on Monday staged a protest demonstration in the Belgium capital, Brussels, against the ongoing war in Afghanistan. The anti-war demonstration was organised by Khudai Khidmatgar group in Afghanistan. The group’s leader in Belgium, Shan Bacha…
Protestors in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday demanded capital punishment for individuals detained in connection with the kidnap-slaying of a child, Abasin. The 12 years old Abasin was kidnapped in the Kart-i-Naw area of capital Kabul about two…
A number of protestors in capital Kabul on Thursday asked the unity government leaders to resign if they could not discharge their responsibilities and honour pledges. Around 200 protestors, including political parties’ workers and civil society activists, gathered…
Hundreds of people on Monday took to the streets in southeastern Paktia province against the assassination of a tribal elder and accused local officials of negligence. The tribal elder, Syed Ishaq, was killed two days ago along with…
KABUL activists on Wednesday protested in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kabul and the country’s consulate in western Herat province over the raping and killing of a minor Afghan girl in Tehran. The six-year-old girl identified as Setayesh Quraishi…
Dozens of people on Saturday staged a protest rally against what they called corruption in the passport department of western Herat province. Nearly 100 people gathered in front of the governor’s house, asking officials to resolve problems…
Dozens of military pensioners on Tuesday protested against what they said government’s double-standards policy toward them and asked the authorities concerned to observe justice about their rights. Around 150 ex-service members held a rally in capital Kabul and…
Protesters in northern Sar-i-Pul and Samangan provinces on Wednesday asked the government to identify and take legal action against individuals involved in removing portraits of the First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum in the capital of northern…
Hundreds of people from Garamsir district of southern Helmand province on Sunday staged a protest demonstration in the provincial capital, calling for the district police chief to be removed. They were chanting slogans against the district police chief…
Women were among dozens of people who staged a protest demonstration in the capital of southern Ghazni province against the Afghan Local Police (ALP) and uprising members. The women with some holding copies of the holy Quran…
A large number of people on Saturday staged a protest demonstration against the killing of a young man allegedly by gunmen loyal to an illegal tribal militia commander in northern Samangan province. The illegal commander, Abdul Manan, along…
Some residents of the Shinwari zone in eastern Nangarhar province on Monday staged a protest in capital Kabul, calling for the provincial governor to be removed. They also warned Nangarhar would fall to Islamic State (IS) if a…
KABUL (MoE) on Sunday staged a protest rally against what they claimed non-payment of “supper skill allowance” and warned to continue their protest if the problem was not resolved. Some 60 MoE construction engineers gathered in front of the Presidential…
Residents and civil society province, asking the government to sack officials involved in corruption. Some 200 people took part in the demonstration and gathered in front of the urban court in Ferozkoh, the provincial capital, chanting slogans against…
ASADABAD (Pajhowk): Hundreds of people on Thursday staged a protest demonstration in eastern Kunar province, demanding the construction of a hydropower dam in the province. One of the participants, Maulvi Mohammad Anwar, told Pajhwok Afghan News the government should construct…
Dozens of people on Wednesday protested against the detention of an uprising leader by police in northern Takhar province and blocked the road connecting six districts with the provincial capital. The protest rally emerged in the morning in…
Hundreds of people on Wednesday took to the streets in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, asking the government to remove “infective security bosses and re-launch a military operation in the Shinwari zone. The protestors, who marched from…
Suspended employees of the Electronic ID Card Farms Distribution Department on Sunday held a protest gathering in Kabul, saying if the government did not reinstate their jobs, they would leave the county. About 1000 employees of the department…
Hundreds of people on Tuesday staged a protest, accusing the government of indifference toward brazen corruption in western Ghor province. At least two hundred people took to the roads in the provincial capital, chanting full-throated slogans: “Stop corruption,…
A number of engineers on Monday staged a protest demonstration against what they said “discrimination and favoritism in employment on National Solidarity Programme (NSP) projects” in western Herat province. The protestors accused some government officials in Herat…
KABUL condition of five persons who were shot and injured during a protest demonstration in Kabul a day earlier. The five persons were injured after guards at the Presidential Palace fired warning shots to disperse the thousands of protestors who…
The protest against the beheading of civilians in capital Kabul resulted in damage worth two million afghanis to the Presidential Palace, an official said on Thursday. A large number of gates, footpath fences, air conditioners and computers were…
Protestors, demanding the shifting of Baghlan’s capital to the Baghlan-i-Markazi district, blocked the Baghlan-Kunduz highway for a third day running on Saturday. Over the past two days, more than 200 people have blocked the busy highway in the…
