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KABUL (Pajhwok): The National Assembly is retuing from its summer break tomorrow (Tuesday), as the electoral reform decree’s fate remains undecided and the vice-president on Monday said a new decree will be finalized within hours. According to... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHARAN (Pajhwok): The Omna district of southeaste Paktika collapsed to the Taliban on Sunday after five day of continued fighting, an official said. A security official, requesting not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, told Pajhwok Afghan News the district had been under siege for the past five days. “The Afghan National Army (ANA) and special unit persoel reached the Nawa area of the district but couldn’t advance. Later on, they beat a tactical retreat,” the source said. He added security forces’ retreat from the area allowed the insurgents to overrun the district.“With the fighters having planted landmines on roads, soldiers fled the district using sub-street...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Administrative chief of Hesarak district in easte Nangarhar province waed the town could not be secured until the main road leading to the district was made safe and secured. During an exclusive chat with Pajhwok Afghan News... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): The reburial of Habibullah Kalakani, known as Afghanistan’s bandit king, triggered a protest in southeaster Paktia province on Friday. Kalakani was reburied in Kabul hours after an attack on the people carrying his coffin. At least four people were injured and one security official killed. Kalakani served as king for a few months in 1929. He led the revolt against King Amanullah’s modeisation plans with the help of various tribes. A number of political figures, including former Balkh goveor Atta Mohammad Noor, ex-intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh and others, held a ceremony for the reburial of Kalakani and 16 of his aides. The remains were reburied on Shahr-i-Ara Mount in ...

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): About 240,000 Afghan refugees would be repatriated to their homeland every month after Eidul Azha, a senior official said on Friday. Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees Dr. Imran Zaib told The Express Tribune: “December 31 is... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan ’s rightwing political party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has waed forced repatriation of Afghan refugees will create problems between the neighbours. Senator Sirajul Haq, head of the influential party, on Thursday asked the... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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KABUL (Pajhwok): The sale of poor-quality and expired beverages are on the rise in Kabul -- thanks to their low prices. Health experts say the consumption of such beverages cause cancer and other diseases. Kabul residents say the sale of such beverages has increased with the advent of summer. Carbonated drinks are mostly sold at lower prices by handcart drivers in the city. Qais Azizi, a resident of the capital, expressed conce over the rising sales of spurious beverages and food items. In many parts of the city, handcart drivers cheaply sell Coke, Fantaand juices. A juice box, costing 50 afghanis in the market, was sold for 20afs, biscuit of 30afs for 10afs, a bottle of milk worth 20afs for...

KABUL (Pajhwok):The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has named 26players for a 15-day training camp in India,begiing from September 3 at the Greater Cricket Sports Complex Ground. The training camp has been arranged ahead of Afghanistan’s tour of Bangladesh (BD), where the men in blue will play three One-Day Inteational (ODI) matches against the hostsat the Sher-i-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur. Bangladesh and Afghanistan will play their first-ever ODI series on Sept. 25, 26 and October1, said Nasimullah Danish, chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board. “I've made it clear to the selection committee that it is a difficult task picking the squad for playing against Bangladeshon their home ground,” ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Forty percent of Afghanistan’s population lacks access to healthcare services and medicines imported to the country are of poor quality and most of drugstores are open without pharmacists, officials said on Thursday. Nisar Ahmad Haris, who heads of the Meshrano Jirga or upper house of parliament’s welfare commission, told a conference “Evaluation of Healthcare Services, Challenges and Solutions” that despite positive changes in the health sector, most of Afghans still lacked access to health services. He said most of the drug stores were run by unprofessional people and even by children in some areas. The lawmaker said his commission had assessed and found most of drug store...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A survey has found that 86 percent residents of northe Balkh province hold anti- Taliban and Islamic State views. Findings of the survey were released on Saturday in the provincial capital, Mazar-i-Sharif. The survey has... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): A number of patients and their attendants accuse midwives and doctors of “serious professional misconduct, inappropriate attitude and using different tactics to force them into paying bribe” at the civil hospital in central... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of fuel and gas increased while that of sugar dipped during the outgoing week in the capital Kabul, market sources said on Thursday. Abdul Hadi, a fuel station worker in Wazirabad locality, said the price of one litre of... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A number of women on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration against usurping their lands by tribal elders in easte Nangarhar province and threatened self-immolation if their properties were not retued to them. The protesters gathered at the Pushtunistan Square and carried baers inscribed with names of the alleged land usurpers including Malak Naimat, Malak Nizam and Dawood. The female protesters waed if their legitimate demand was not considered, they would set themselves alight. A participant of the demonstration, Gulalai told Pajhwok Afghan News her land had been grabbed by tribal elders over the past few years in Behsud district, but there was no one to help her recla...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Afghan and American forces have launched a joint ground and air operation in Lashkargah, the capital of southe Helmand province, and nearby Nad Ali district, an official said on Tuesday. After 2014 when NATO forces’ combat... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Afghan refugee families who have retued to southeaste Khost province from Pakistan ’s Waziristan region say they want the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) to treat them like other Afghan refugees. The... Let's block ads! بخوانید...

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): A 45-year-old woman from southe Kandahar province has died of the Congo virus at a hospital in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Fatima Bibi, who was admitted to the Fatima Jiah Chest and TB Hospital in Quettafour days back, breathed her last late on Sunday, local media reported. A 20-year-old man Habibullah, who was hospitalised along with Fatima, has also tested positive for the deadly virus. Dr. Abbas Notkani. Ntkani said: “The condition of Fatima Bibi was serious and it further deteriorated late night and she passed away.” mud Let's block ads! بخوانید...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Thousands of families, who have retued from Pakistan to Afghanistan in the past month, are in urgent need of assistance and only a few have received support so far, the Norwegian Refugee Council said on Sunday. “These people are... Let's block ads! بخوانید...