A man killed his wife and cut her body into pieces before dumping her remains in a well in the capital of southern Helmand province last night, police said on Sunday. Second police district chief Col. Haji Gran…
A man strangled to death his 25-year-old wife in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, local authorities said on Monday. The governor’s spokesman, Mohammad Raza Ghafori, said the victim was choked to death by her spouse using…
A 21-year-old woman has shot herself to death in Herat City, the capital of western Herat province, an official said on Sunday. Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, spokesman for zonal hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News Anisa Gul, 21, gunned…
Local officias in northern Balkh province on Tuesday said a woman who threw her two children from the fifth floor and then jumped off hersel was driven to commit suicide by her husband's second marriage. The incident took…
A woman jumped from the third storey of her house along with two children in northern Balkh province after her husband informed her of his second marriage plan. Provincial police spokesman Sher Jan Durrani told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Police in western Herat province for the first time arrested a woman while smuggling a pistol, an official said on Wednesday. Provincial police spokesman, Abdul Ahad Walizada, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the 45 years old woman…
A 20-year-old woman, who is married to a 99-year-old man, says she has been suffering from mental illness and is worried about her and her children’s future. Hailing from Nijrab district of central Parwan province, she was 14…
A senior official on Monday accused Taliban militants of killing a woman in northern Sar-i-Pul province, but the rebels rejected the claim as baseless. Sar-i-Pul Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban killed the woman in…
Kabul is likely to challenge the arrest of Nat Geo's fabled girl Sharbat Gula -- now an ailing woman -- in a Pakistani court, a consulate official said on Thursday. Familiar with contacts between the two sides on…
Local officials on Monday said Taliban militants shot dead a woman in a revenge attack in Kohistan district of northern Faryab province. A security official, wishing not to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News that two Taliban militants…
The primary court in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday awarded capital punishment to a woman for throwing her sister-in-law to an oven and burning her to death. The governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News the…
Unknown gunmen shot dead an elderly woman in the Khwaja Dokoh district of northern Jawzjan province, security officials said on Wednesday. Jawzjan deputy police chief Abdul Hafiz Khashi told Pajhwok Afghan News that the 53-year-old woman was killed…
Khairun Nisa, a 35 years old woman from the Balkhab district of northern Sar-i-Pul province claims she was tortured for 15 years by her husband, but no one listened to her complaints. A mother of four, who is…
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a woman in the capital of western Herat province on Sunday, an official said. Police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told Pajhwok Afghan News masked gunmen on motorcycles killed the 55-year-old woman when she…
The authorities in northern Takhar province on Sunday accused the Taliban militants of killing a woman for government spying. Takhar Governor Yasin Zia told reporters here that the 25-year-old was taken away from her home, tried in a…
Authorities in southern Zabul province have launched an investigation into the alleged killing of a married woman due to domestic violence in Shinkai district. Brother of the slain woman, Asadullah, said his sister had been married for two…
A woman, accused of adultery and sentenced to death by Taliban by stoning, has survived the punishment in northern Sar-i-Pul province, a public representative said on Monday. The woman was accused of adultery a week ago and was…
