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KABUL (Pajhwok): Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned a bomb attack on a... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): Efforts for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan... read more

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Another new polio case, the third this year, has emerged in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday.

Senior Health Official Dr. Abdul Shakour Nasrat told Pajhwok Afghan News the fresh... read more

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Local officials on Tuesday said the Attorney Office’s executive head for southern Ghazni province has been gunned down by unidentified assailants.

Governor’s spokesman Mohammad Arif Noori told Pajhwok Afghan News that Mujtaba Hanafi, the executive head, was killed... read more

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A 100-megawatt solar power project was inaugurated in eastern Nangarhar province one and a half years ago to provide electricity to factories, but work on the plant has been postponed.

Nangarhar where around 400 factories operate, has been facing shortage of... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Meshrano Jirga... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok):  President Ashraf Ghani has said if he is reelected, he will restart peace talks with the... read more

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A test process of filling form to obtain online passport kicked off in northern Balkh province on Tuesday, an official said.

Balkh Passport Department director Ahmadullah Hajizadah told a press conference in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, that the... read more

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen shot dead an intelligence operative in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Tuesday morning, an official said.

Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident happened in the Bibi Hawa High... read more

AIBAK (Pajhwok): Two workers were believed killed after a coalmine collapsed in Dara-i-Sauf Bala district of northern Samangan province, an official said on Tuesday.

Ahmad Ali Hussaini, the district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the coalmine partially collapsed burying... read more

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): At least 18 Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel have been killed and two others wounded in a Taliban attack in Kunduz... read more

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Pakistani militiamen and Taliban have attacked Afghan forces in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province... read more

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): Around 200 armed families supporting the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader Tahir Yaldash have sneaked into western Ghor... read more

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Kochis in northern Balkh province claim their meadows measuring thousands of acres have been grabbed by powerful individuals and local commanders.

As a result, the nomadic community complains, its livestock farming has declined by 50 percent.

The Balkh... read more

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan will attend consultation on the Afghan peace process in Moscow on October 25, a media report said on Tuesday.... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): Russia has urged the Afghan government to take urgent measures to ensure the security of civilians and step up the... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): The UN Security Council has condemned as heinous and cowardly a suicide bombing that killed at least 62 people inside... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has embarked on a multination visit for talks on ending the war in... read more