A 15-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide in central Maidan Wardak province, police said on Tuesday. The provincial police headquarters in a statement said the incident happened yesterday in Star Zarin village of Jaghatu district. The statement…
At least seven people have been injured as a result of traffic accident in the Daimerdad district of central Maidan Wardak province. The accident took place after a corolla type vehicle flipped over in the Arg area…
The Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) has activated an antenna for the first time in Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province. The governor’s house in a statement said the AWCC antenna had started working in Chak…
Five check dams consuming more than 35 million afghanis were inaugurated on Monday after their completion in central Maidan Wardak province. The Ministry of Water and Energy in a press release said the check dams were built in…
Some residents of Maidan Shahr, the capital of central Maidan Wardak province, say no one has helped them reconstruct their houses destroyed in the past wars. These victims of the past conflict ask the government for assistance…
Investors in central Maidan Wardak province are complaining about lack of electricity and want the government to address the problem. Eng Noorullah, chief engineer at an oxygen producing factory in Kotal area of Maidan Shahr, the provincial…
Residents of central Maidan Wardak province want rehabilitation and reactivation of the Chaki Wardak hydropower plant in Chak district as the oldest dam has been inactive for the past three years. Halim Jan, a resident of Bambayee…
Turkish Red Crescent Society has distributed aid to 500 poor families in the central province of Maidan Wardak, an official said on Wednesday. GhaznigulMangal, the Turkish Red Crescent representative, told Pajhwok Afghan News that every vulnerable family received…
The Public Health Department registered 68 positive Covid-19 cases during just five days in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said. Mohammad Zarak Zerak, the director of public health, told Pajhwok Afghan News: “Covid-19 infection cases are on…
Ghulam Farooq Wardak, former minister of state for parliamentary affairs, returned to Kabul on Wednesday. He landed on Wednesday morning at the Kabul airport, Wardak confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News. However, he would not work for the government…
The Agriculture Department in central Maidan Wardak province says it has provided short-term jobs to more than 870 individuals. As many as 875 people were provided with job opportunities in Sheikhabad and Tangi Dara areas of Syedabad…
A man was killed as a result of lightning on Tuesday in the Narkh district of central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Tuesday. Natural Disaster Management Authority Director Faizullah Jalali told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
The intelligence agency says security forces have discovered two caches of weapons and ammunition belonging to warlord Alipur in the Behsud district of central Maidan Wardak province. Light and heavy weapons, a military motorcycle, cameras, grenades, thousands of…
Taliban militants have captured a police training center in Sayedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province, locals and the Taliban said. Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that the group captured a ‘major base and Police Academy’ in…
Afghan Air Forces (AAF) has hit and destroyed a car bomb-in-waiting in central Maidan Wardak province, Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
A newly-constructed building for the provincial Commerce and Industry Department of central MaidanWardak province was inaugurated on Monday. A statement from the provincial media office said the building consumed nearly 21 million afghanis. Governor Abdul Rahman Tariq, who…
An American model has filed a lawsuit against the son of ex-defence minister Abdul Rahim Wardak for stalking and raping her, a media report said on Sunday. Sarah Goolden, 29, a New York model, accused Hamed Wardak, 43, of…
A boy kidnapped by insurgents from Kabul has been safely recovered by security forces in the Jalrez district of Maidan Wardak province, police said on Sunday. The militants wanted to use Mohammad Muslim, 12, who was abducted from…
KABUL militants released athletes they had kidnapped in central Maidan Wardak province. Governor’s spokesman, Abdur Rahman Mangal, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban abducted nine sportsmen from a car on the Jalriz district road Tuesday last. He said three of…
The Taliban freed nearly a dozen passengers in return for the release of six people, held captive by an uprising group, as part of a prisoner swap deal in Jalrez district of central Maidan Wardak province, sources said…
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier accused of killing a child in central Maidan Wardak province has been detained, an official said on Saturday. Local residents alleged the ANA forces shot dead the 11 years old child named…
