In order to avoid traffic congestion, a new road has been constructed at a cost of 6.5 million afghanis in the Torkham town of the Momandara district of eastern Nangarhar province. The 1150-meter-long and 16-meter-wide dirt road was…
For the first time, a dirt road has been constructed to the Chiragul valley of Narai district in eastern Kunar province, with residents showering flowers at vehicles arriving there. The road, which is about 12 kilometers long, was…
Residents of Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, say the ring road of the city, work on which began eight years ago, could not be completed so far. Shiberghan people claimed that it has been almost a…
Residents of the Balkhab district in northern Sar-i-Pul province say the road leading to Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, has been destroyed and people commuting on it faced hardships. They called on the government to rebuild the…
Hundreds of local residents are hired to work against food for construction of a 10-kilometer Want Wegal district of eastern Nuristan province, officials said Thursday. The people working on the road construction are given food as their wage…
Residents of western Herat province say development projects have been slow going in the province since the new administration was established around nine months ago. Some residents say asphalt work on the road from Darb Kandahar area…
Initiated two decades back, the construction of a 120-kilometer road -- connecting the Sheikh Abu Nasr Farahi Port with the capital of Farah province -- is yet to be completed. A 60-km portion of the Iranian-funded road…
Some residents of eastern Nangarhar and drivers on Jalalabad-Torkham highway blame narrowness of the road for most accidents. Azizullah, a resident of Ghanikhel district of Nangarhar, said mostly traffic accidents took place due to the narrowness of the…
A six-kilometer road between Nahrain and Borka districts of northern Baghlan province has been graveled, officials said on Saturday. Baheer Shinwari, head of Public Works Department of Baghlan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the gravelling of Tawa Shakh Kotal…
Passengers and drivers on the Uruzgan-Kandahar highway on Monday demanded the government reconstruct the important road and put an end to their misery. The 175km long Uruzgan-Kandahar highway has been in a state of disrepair for the past…
Construction work on a two-kilometer ring road has begun in this capital city of southeastern Khost province at a cost of 24 million afghanis. The road begins from Khabaryal road and reaches Sheikh Zayed University. Construction of…
The cabinet on Tuesday appointed a team to review vehicles seized in criminal cases and instructed Kabul Municipality to find a solution to clear the city from unnecessary barriers. Office of the Administrative Affairs in a tweet today…
Local officials on Sunday said work on repairing parts of the Kabul-Kandahar highway that had been damaged by landmines and heavy vehicles over the past 20 years, has been launched. Action for repairing of the highway was…
the governor of eastern Nurstain province says the Paron-Kunar highway is being constructed as per the contract and no changes would be made in the road’s width. Two days back, SaadullahPaindazoi, head of the Nuristan provincial council, told…
Pajhwok Afghan News findings show some portions of the newly-built Sardawra Road in the capital of northern Kunduz province are damaged before being inaugurated. Asphalting of the 5.6 kilometers Sardawra Road cost $148 million afghanis under the National…
Hundreds of residents and drivers on Monday blocked the road connecting Zazai Maidan district with provincial capital Khost City in southeastern Khost province, demanding security on the route/ The protesting said 10 people of the Zazai Maidan…
Construction of the second part of the Qaisar-Laman road has been included in the next year’s budget plan and the Asian Development Bank has renewed its pledge to finance the project, officials said Sunday. According to the Ministry…
The Omeed Organisation says it has resolved 35 corruption-prone cases in eastern Nangarhar province and stopped corruption in a 4-kilometer road construction project in Khewa district. In a report sent to Pajhwok Afghan News, the Omeed Organisation said:…
Local officials say Taliban militants have destroyed a 500-meter portion of the Ghazni-Paktika highway, a claim the insurgent group denied. Haji Mohammad, acting chief of Andar district of Ghazni province, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban…
Rural Rehabilitation and Development Minister Mujeeb Rahman Karimi on Monday inaugurated the ring road project in northeastern Badakhshan province and nine other road projects in the province. According to a Pajhwok Afghan News report, the projects include a…
KABUL (Pajhowk): The Ministry of Transport on Wednesday signed four projects worth nearly four billion afghanis to be implemented in four provinces of the country. Contracts of the projects were signed between Transport Minister Yama Yari and representatives of construction…
Inaugurated one and a half years ago, construction work on the Gardez-Zurmat road in southeastern Paktia province is yet to be launched, complain local residents. On April 1, 2018, President Ashraf Ghani inaugurated the Gardez-Zurmat road construction project…
A road costing 220 million afghanis is being constructed in eastern Nuristan province to connect two districts --- Kamdesh and Barg-i-Matal --- with the provincial capital, Paroon. A contract for pavement of the road was signed with 15…
Some analysts say the government has unnecessarily blocked roads leading to the Presidential Palace fearing protests by presidential candidates but others believe the government did so considering the country’s critical situation. The unity government’s five-year term expired on…
