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 southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Residents of the Sancharak district of northern Sar-i-Pul province said on Monday they had funded the construction of a four-kilometre road with their own resources. When the district municipality ignored their repeated requests, area residents pooled money to…
MAZARSHARIF (PAN): Some residents of the capital of northern Sar-i-Pul province on Monday warned of migrating from the city due to harassment at the hands of Afghan Local Police (ALP). But security officials insisted no family had been displaced so…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN military commission’s head. Juma Khan was detained with cooperation from intelligence agents of neighbouring Balkh province, the deputy police chief for Sar-i-Pul said. Col. Sakhi Dad Haideri told Pajhwok Afghan News Juma Khan was in charge of emplacing…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN due to their involvement in corruption.” Zahir particularly mentioned the provincial military attorney office, saying many security officials had been forced into quitting jobs -- a claim rejected as baseless by the officials concerned. The crime branch chief…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Officials of Sar-i-Pul on Saturday accused the Ministry of Information and Culture of ignoring the central province, where cultural activities have long come to a standstill. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Director of Information Abdul…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN allegedly raped a month back in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the women’s affairs director alleged on Tuesday. Nasima Arzo told Pajhwok Afghan News the two women were sexually assaulted by two young men -- aged 20 and 21 years…
SAR-I-PUL CITY/SHIBERGHAN (PAN): As Rashid Dostum’s supporters called off their protest in Jawzjan on Saturday, his hundreds others supporters staged a protest rally in Sar-i-Pul province against the Jawzjan governor. Most shops in Sar-i-Pul city were closed due to the…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN for the May 1 border skirmish with Afghan forces in eastern Nangarhar province. Spiritual leaders, students, government officials, shopkeepers and others staged a demonstration in Sar-i-Pul, chanting slogans against Pakistan and in support of Afghan security personnel. An…
SAR-I-PUL CITY (PAN commander was shot dead as a result of an ambush in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, officials said on Friday. Rahimullah was mistakenly killed by local residents on Thursday night, the acting provincial police chief, Col. Jahangir…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Nearly 100 students of a girls’ high school were suspected poisoned on Monday in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, officials said. About 100 girls were taken to the hospital and later discharged after treatment, police spokesman, Lal Mohammad…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN Yahya girls’ high school were poisoned on Saturday in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, officials said. Over 100 students from the school were taken to the Sar-i-Pul Civil Hospital after the poisoning incident, the director of public health…
SAR-I-PUL/SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Nineteen people were killed, 25 injured and 60 others reported missing after heavy floods ravaged northern Sar-i-Pul and Jawzjan provinces. Officials said on Sunday said that hundreds of houses were also washed away. The floods hit Sayad district…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): At least 28 villagers lost their lives and four others went missing after heavy floods hit a wedding party in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, officials said on Monday. The overnight floods washed away the people attending the…
SAR-I-PUL CITY (PAN): A secretary to the former Sar-i-Pul governor has been arrested on the charge of firing at demonstrators during a rally two months ago, officials said on Wednesday. Participants of the rally on Feb. 5 asked the then…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN, returned to his office. Several protests had been held against Governor Syed Anwar Rahmati over the past two months, leading the central government to send in delegations to look into the demonstrators’ demands. A parliamentary team, in its…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): A woman and her child died as a result of severe cold in the Balkhab district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Wednesday. The victims died due to on their way to Mazar-i-Sharif for medical…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): Some powerful individuals and government officials, using fake names, have been benefiting from stipends meant for families of martyrs and people with disabilities in northern Sar-i-Pul province, residents complain. There has been no transparency in the distribution of…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): An angry mob set ablaze some rooms of the governor’s office in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul on Sunday after a protest turned violent, witnesses said. The protesting people were demanding action against the governor’s guards who had…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): US soldiers shot dead a newly-hired Afghan guard in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, local officials said on Saturday. Abdul Rahim, the guard, was killed by US soldiers late on Friday night, after he was observed aiming his…
