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KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): The people of Zazai Maidan district in southeaste Khost province say no development projects, except those executed under the National Solidarity Programme, have been implemented in the district during the past 14 years. They... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): An Afghan student has been stabbed to death by a classmate from his country at a college in India’s northe city of Chandigarh, a media report said on Tuesday. The stabbing took place at the Post-Graduate Gove ment College in the... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): Under a secret plan, more than 80,000 Afghans may be deported from Europe in the near future, a leading British newspaper reported on Tuesday. If the Afghan gove ment does not agree to the mass repatriation of failed asylum-seekers... Let's block ads! (Why?)

PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan is trying to remove infrastructural and procedural hurdles in the way of trade with and investment in Afghanistan, a minister said on Monday. Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said Pakistan was looking at ways of enhancing trade volume with Afghanistan.Bilateral tra...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Sixteen prisoners were freed from a Taliban-run prison and 17 militants guarding the facility were killed during an operation in southe Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday. A MoD statement said the Afghan National Army (ANA) Special Forces raided the jail in Gre...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The removal of first Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum’s portraits by unknown persons has created a tension between the VP’s supporters and gove ment officials in northe Balkh province. Some of the portraits installed... Let's block ads! (Why?)

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LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The gove or on Monday said militants’ attempts to capture southe Helmand province had been foiled and areas lost to the Taliban would be recaptured this new year. Mirza Khan Rahimi, addressing a gathering of tribal elders... Let's block ads! (Why?)

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): At least one policeman was killed and nine civilians and a second policeman were wounded during a clash between police and Taliban militants in southe Helmand province on Monday. Provincial police chief Maj. Gen. Abdur Rahman... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Farmers and handicraft producers on Monday complained about a lack of green houses, cold storage facilities, irrigation water and market for handicrafts during an exhibition in northe Kunduz province. Farmers and women put... Let's block ads! (Why?)

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): A child has been killed and five others including a public uprising leader wounded in three separate incidents in northweste Faryab province, officials said on Monday. Provincial police chief spokesman 2 nd Lt. Karim Yoursh told... Let's block ads! (Why?)

KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidents of Afghanistan and Iran have agreed on the need for expanding bilateral cooperation and friendship, an Iranian media outlet reported on Monday. President Ashraf Ghani called his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to greet him and his nation Nowroz, Mehr News Agency report...

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Telecommunications services could not be extended to some districts in southeaste Paktika province over the past 14 years, residents said on Monday. Chamto Wazir, a resident of Barmal district, told Pajhwok Afghan News they faced... Let's block ads! (Why?)

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By Hassan Khitab on 21 March 2016 KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani,stressing the promotion of local languages, has distributed the Syed Jamaluddin Afghan awards... read more

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan lost to South Africa in their Group 1 match of the ICC World Twenty 200 at the Mumbai ground, the bowler’s graveyard, on Sunday. With this 37-run win, which came days after their shock defeat at the hands of England, South Africa resuscitated their World Twenty20 campaig...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Peace is the need for the country, but the gove ment’sremains unclear on talks with militants, alleged the Wolesi Jirga deputy speaker on Sunday. “Peace is the need of the hour as life is impossible without peace. But people want to know what conditions area for that,” as Haji Zahir...

KABUL (Pajhwok): While insisting on a proper irrigation system, President Ashraf Ghani acknowledged on Sunday the gove ment’s failure in producing, supplying and distributing and utilising water over the past four years. Speaking at an agriculture... Let's block ads! (Why?)