A child was killed and six others, including a police officer and his driver, wounded during an explosion in Pul-i-Charkhi locality of capital Kabul on Thursday morning, an official said. Brig. Gen. Gul Agha Pacha, crime branch chief,…
JAWZJAN (PAN): Financial problems forced women toiling away alongside their husbands in the fields to work hard and contribute to the family’s finance in Jawzjan province. The women assist their husbands working hard in order to feed their children together.
Three civilians, including a young woman, were killed and nearly a dozen others wounded on Wednesday when a powerful blast rocked the capital of northern Faryab province, officials said. The blast took place on the Ludin Road, about…
Three Turkish engineers were killed and a fourth injured when a motorcycle bomb exploded near their passing vehicle in the Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, an official said. A bystander child was also injured in…
Four people were killed and dozens others injured by flash floods that washed away hundreds of houses and destroyed crops on thousands of acres of land in northern Takhar province, an official said on Saturday. Around 70 people…
FARYAB (PAN): Police beat women while aid distribution process disordered in Faryab province.
“Either Kingdom or Coffin” were the last words 22 years old Ahmad uttered to his mother before he left Afghanistan to illegally migrate to Australia. But he was not lucky enough, as he died when his boat sank…
The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Tuesday warned if the government failed to fire the officials allegedly involved in fraud and rigging, the panel would have to make public their names. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, IEC…
Two people were killed and nine others wounded on Monday when a bus of the Defence Ministry came under suicide bomb attack in the heavily-fortified central capital Kabul. The bomber ploughed his explosives-rigged motorbike into the vehicle in…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN): School children attend in their their class in Ander district of southern Ghazni province and study in a problematic situation.
Five suicide bombers were killed after they stormed the Indian consulate in western Herat province on Friday morning, officials said.The group of bombers started firing at the diplomatic mission at 4.00am when it entered a residential building…
The minister of interior on Thursday said the second round of presidential polls would be more challenging, claiming foreign militants had sneaked into Afghanistan to disrupt the process. At a news conference in Kabul, Mohammad Omar Daudzai said…
AIBAK, (PAN): Ahmad Farshid, a 12-year-old child made an excavator in northern Samangan province.
JALALABAD: Inmates leave Nangarhar jail after their release in eastern Nangarhar province. A total of 155 inmates were freed from Nangarhar Jail on President Hamid Karzai's decree, an official said.
JALALABAD: Inmates leave Nangarhar jail after their release in eastern Nangarhar province. A total of 155 inmates were freed from Nangarhar Jail on President Hamid Karzai's decree, an official said.
Thousands of university students in northern Takhar province on Monday started a boycott of classes and slammed the campus gate on teachers to protest lack of facilities. The protesting students said their only hostel had been without electricity…
Six civilians were killed and 38 others wounded in a car bombing in the Daman district of southern Kandahar province on Sunday, an official said. Acting spokesman for the governor, Dawa Khan Minapal, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Afghanistan’s first satellite – AFGHANSAT 1 -- was formally launched on Saturday, with officials expecting a $15 million addition to the government’s annual revenue. Eutelsat Communications (NYSE Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world’s leading satellite operators, and…
The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Wednesday said ballots from 291 of 444 suspected polling sites had been found valid. IECC Secretary Mohammad Nadir Mohseni said the Independent Election Commission (IEC) had shared with them an assessment…
A prayer leader’s nose and ear were chopped off for an alleged sexual assault on a teenage girl in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Tuesday. The imam’s nose and ear were cut off by a relative…
The Independent Election Complaint Commission (IECC) on Wednesday held a public hearing on assessing votes cast at 525 polling sites, an official said. Representatives of presidential runners, human rights and civil society institutions, media and observers attended the…
KABUL, Apr 26, 2014: Civil society members protest against the mining law in Kabul.
Presidential runner Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on Monday asked the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to stop releasing further results until fraudulent votes were cleaned out. Ghani expressed his concern a day after the IEC announced a second batch…
