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Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
January 27, 2018
He said the documents showed 14,395 acres of land had been usurped by 1,744 government officials and powerful individuals in the province. he did not go into more details about the list. Meanwhile ... No incident of land grabbing has been reported in Daikundi, Panjshir, Nuristan and Kunar provinces.
The News International
January 16, 2018
In 2017, the number of poppy-free provinces in Afghanistan decreased from 13 to 10. The number of provinces affected by opium poppy cultivation increased from 21 to 24. Ghazni, Samangan and Nuristan provinces lost their poppy-free status. Ghazni had been poppy-free for more than two decades (sinceÃÂ ...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
January 15, 2018
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): At least three Daesh -- or so-called Islamic State (IS) -- rebels have been killed in during an airstrike in eastern Nuristan province, an official said on Monday. Mohammad Saeed Momand, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident raid by foreign forcesÃÂ ...
The News International
January 11, 2018
“Due to the presence of wide ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan, especially in Nuristan, Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, there is an increase in such cross-border terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Daesh, finding a foothold in Afghanistan, is a matter of concern as it is using the Afghan territory to foment terrorismÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
January 10, 2018
Over 167 Daesh operatives were killed and 50 others wounded in the eastern province of Nangarhar and Laghman over the past nine days, according to ... But government says that currently Daesh fighters are active in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman, Nuristan, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul and Jawozjan provinces.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
January 8, 2018
The study indicates only those articles which do not curtail powers of government officials and branches have been implemented somehow. .... In Baghlan, Kabul, Paktika, Maidan Wardak, Sar-i-Pul, Bamyan, Nimroz, Samangan, Balkh, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Herat, Parwan Farah, and Nuristan provinces, six ofÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
January 7, 2018
More than 50 Afghan journalists and local officials from around the country took part in the most recent sessions, part of a new project supporting ... Workshops held in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar, and Nuristan provinces were attended by 34 male and female reporters in DecemberÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
August 11, 2017
With Nuristan one of the most underdeveloped provinces in Afghanistan, women are particularly hard hit by lack of access to healthcare. Ismail Stanikzai, the ... Despite their best efforts over the last 16 years, local health care officials had failed to induce a single female doctor to work in the remote province.
Voice of America
August 6, 2017
Militants from the so-called Islamic State group are losing their stronghold in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, but the terror group is trying ... in Nangarhar, but the extremists now have established a persistent presence in mountainous parts of Kunar and Nuristan provinces, local authorities said.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
At least 400 civilians have lost their lives as a result of suicide attacks and explosions and hundreds more wounded in the past three months, officials stated recently. The attack by the Taliban on the Intercontinental Hotel comes amid intensifying violence around the country. In the northern province of BalkhÃÂ ...
Kashmir Watch
August 28, 2017
The civil and military officials demanded that the US military should eliminate ... Khawaja Asif's official visit to the United States was postponed and now, ... the serving agent of Indian RAW in Balochistan province, and during his stay, ... the TTP which is hiding in Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan.
Kashmir Watch
August 28, 2017
But case of Pakistan's province of Balochsitan is quite different. ... Even a Gallup survey of the UK official body, DFID, conducted on July 20, 212, had ... the TTP which is hiding in Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan. .... Kashmir: Indian Army beats up JK Police officials second time in a month ( 430 ).
Daily Times
August 19, 2017
To a question about Pakistani officials' statement that the chief of the ... Nuristan and Nangarhar provinces, he said such statements were partÃÂ ...
Voice of America
August 19, 2017
Initially based in southern parts of eastern Nangarhar province, IS's Khorasan ... to expand to mountainous parts of the adjacent Kunar and Nuristan provinces, ... to the Orokzai tribe in Pakistan, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. ... and civilians in the region, local tribesmen and authorities told VOA.
Voice of America
August 14, 2017
... air strike in eastern Kunar province, Afghan and U.S. military officials confirmed Sunday. ... Based in southern parts of eastern Nangarhar province, IS's ... adjacent Kunar and Nuristan provinces which share a border with Pakistan. ... Police authorities in Nangarhar last week arrested five minors - 10 to 15ÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
August 12, 2017
With Nuristan one of the most underdeveloped provinces in Afghanistan, women are particularly hard hit by lack of access to healthcare.
ReliefWeb
August 7, 2017
... as many to Dand Wa Patan in the same province, and 3,150 to Matun in Khost. ... In Nuristan, the majority of about 1,000 people who had been displaced ... Southern: According to authorities, more than 1,400 people have been ... since January in the southern and southeastern provinces of the country,ÃÂ ...
Voice of America
August 6, 2017
Ali represents eastern Nangarhar province which borders all three provinces. ... parts of Kunar and Nuristan provinces, local authorities said.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 4, 2017
A relentless air-and-ground campaign against the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Afghanistan does not appear to have radically diminished thatÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
August 2, 2017
Residents of Nuristan province demanded improved health services in a ... Civil society activist Noor al-Huda Fakoor accused officials of onlyÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
August 1, 2017
Unemployment and poverty are other serious challenges for the Nuristan youths, officials from the provincial directorate of information and culture said.
TOLOnews
July 18, 2017
Officials Hoping To Increase ALP Footprint In Laghman ... Police battle to maintain control of an area in the province amid an ongoing Taliban domination. ... route for the insurgent group into Nangarhar, Nuristan and Kunar provinces. ... Despite their challenges, local officials in Laghman are also looking atÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
... 250,000 of them in Laghman province alone, and may be indicative of a growing trend in ... to expand into neigbouring provinces Kunar and Nuristan. ... Indeed, with the official IDP petition system largely or completely out ofÃÂ ...
Long War Journal
March 20, 2017
The Taliban claimed that 67 "Mujahideen" have graduated from two training camps located in the northwestern Afghan province of Faryab. The group has ... The statement was released on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's official propaganda website ...
TOLOnews
March 20, 2017
Pakistan authorities claimed the attack on the shrine was planned in Afghanistan. Following the attack, Pakistan launched missile attacks on the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, leaving hundreds of families homeless. Hazrat Omar ZakhilwalÃÂ ...
RAWA News
March 12, 2017
There is urgent need for female doctors and midwives in Paktika province also, say Baseer Haidakhil, a resident of Katawaz district.
Kashmir Watch
March 6, 2017
In the recent past, new wave of terrorism in Pakistan's province of Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed several innocent people, while various terrorist outfits such as the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL) and ...
Kashmir Watch
March 2, 2017
The importance of this very day could be judged from the fact that it is being commemorated not only in various districts of the Balochistan province, but also throughout the country besides in Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai, Muscat, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia ...
TOLOnews
February 28, 2017
Later Pakistan started missile attacks on the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, leaving hundreds of families homeless.
The Nation
February 27, 2017
CSO officials said that currently major portion of Afghanistan's flour is imported from Kazakhstan instead of Pakistan.
DAWN.com
February 26, 2017
It should be recalled that these terrorist groups had fled operations in Pakistan and taken up sanctuaries in the bordering areas of Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar in Afghanistan. This started ... Only after sustaining heavy losses did Punjab agree to ...
Long War Journal
February 21, 2017
According to a statement released on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's official propaganda outlet, Taliban forces torched the administration buildings and police headquarters after local police and Afghan soldiers abandoned the Shorabak district center ...
Kashmir Watch
February 20, 2017
Pakistan's Armed Forces have broken the backbone of the foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operation Zarb-e-Azb which has also been extended to other provinces of the country. While, Pakistan's law-enforcing ... Terror attack in ...
Aljazeera.com
February 19, 2017
At least 25 people have been killed by snowstorms and avalanches in northern Afghanistan, more than a week after more than 100 people died due to heavy snowfall across the country, according to an official. Northern Faryab province bore the brunt of ...
TOLOnews
February 18, 2017
They announced that they would attack and then fired rocket into parts of Kunar and Nuristan provinces," he said. Nabil added that until the regional and global pressures are increased on Pakistan, and Pakistan does not stop ... In reaction to Pakistan ...
SAMAA TV
February 17, 2017
A security official requesting anonymity revealed that the Law Enforcement Agencies are well aware of terror designs and Islamabad in past have also shared intelligence with Kabul, telling them that militants present in some Afghan provinces are ...
Kashmir Watch
February 16, 2017
Terror attack in Lahore coincided with the incident in Quetta-the provincial capital of Pakistan's Balochistan province, where at least one policeman was killed and five people were injured on February 13, 2017 in an explosion occurred on Sariab road ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 16, 2017
Police say Fateha, an 18-year-old woman who had been forced by her family to marry a man against her wishes, was detained by local authorities on February 11 along with her lover, Hedayatullah, 19, in the Wama district of the remote eastern province of ...
New York Times
February 13, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan - An armed mob that included relatives of a young woman who had eloped with her lover stormed a police station holding the couple in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, then dragged the lovers off and killed them, officials and ...
The News International
February 12, 2017
KABUL: An angry mob lynched a young Afghan couple who had eloped together after storming a police station where they were being held for "immoral acts", officials said on Sunday, the latest so-called honour killing in the country. Fateha, an 18-year ...
Seychelles News Agency
February 10, 2017
(AFP) - The death toll from avalanches and freezing weather conditions across Afghanistan has risen to 191, officials said Friday, as rescue operations were underway in the worst-affected areas.
Alamogordo Daily News
February 8, 2017
Then, there were close to 3,000 ISK members operating in 10 or 12 districts in Nangarhar province near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Cleveland said.
ReliefWeb
February 8, 2017
An avalanche on 05 February 2017 at 0100 hours claimed at least 57 lives in Afsay Village, Barg-e-Matal District (Nuristan Province), with at least 33 injured. Search and rescue teams are on-site ... A large number of avalanche, snowfall and rain ...
NTV
February 7, 2017
WASHINGTON (ABC7) - "The will of the people will stand." That's how the organizers of last month's Women's March announced the "A Day Without A Woman" strike they have in the works.
NTV
February 7, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) -Two East Tennessee homeowners have been arrested after police found a 10-year-old autistic child locked in a cage inside their home on Monday.
ReliefWeb
February 7, 2017
National authorities reported, as of 7 February 7.00 UTC, that the death toll following the snow avalanches on 5-6 February has reached at least 100 people.
NTV
February 7, 2017
A young girl called 911 on her father, begging him to stop the car as she told dispatchers, "I think my dad is driving drunk.
KATU
February 6, 2017
... been injured and 190 homes destroyed by avalanches in multiple provinces. Those figures were expected to rise as rescue teams made their way through snow-blocked roads to afflicted areas.
The Guardian
February 6, 2017
Aid was being delivered by helicopter to the worst-hit province, Nuristan, where at least 64 people had been killed - including 53 in one village, the provincial governor, Hafiz Abdul Qayyom, told Agence France-Presse.
NTV
February 6, 2017
Homeland Security listed its key findings, including inconsistencies when airport and security officials teach credentialed people how to responsibly use their access and report suspicious activities.
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