Gul Mohammad Tanha
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FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Local officials on Monday said security forces repulsed three attacks from militants to capture lapis lazuli mine in Karan wa Manjan district of northeastern Badakhshan province.
Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Ghulam... read more
FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Twenty people have been killed and dozens wounded due to heavy snowfall and roads blockades in four districts of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday.
Gul Mohammad Baidar, deputy governor, told Pajhwok... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): An avalanche in the Mayami district of southeastern Badakhshan province has claimed 10 people’s lives and injured 12 others, officials said on Saturday.
The avalanche hit 25 residences in Ghami Bala area on Friday night, the... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): One man was killed and another seven were wounded in two avalanches in the Raghistan district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Some houses were also destroyed, officials said on Tuesday.
The avalanches occurred in Sopah... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Illegal gunmen and insurgents have been digging up gold and lapis lazuli mines in northeastern Badakhshan province, local officials said on Monday.
Mohammad Akbar Anwari, Badakhshan mines director, told a press conference here... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Powerful individuals and government departments have usurped lands containing important archaeological sites in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday.
Director of Information and Culture Syed... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): A 30-year old paralysed man shot himself to death with a pistol in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday.
Crime Branch Chief, Col. Sakhi Dad Haidari, told Pajhwok Afghan News Farid was paralysed after a... read more

MAIMANA/FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): A former National Directorate of Security (NDS) employee was among three others gunned down separately in north-eastern Badakhshan and northern Faryab provinces, officials said on Saturday.
Abdullah Masomi, the... read more

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Fourteen Taliban militants have been killed and ten others wounded during clashes with security forces in northeastern Badakhshan and northern Jawzjan provinces, officials said Tuesday.
Jawzjan governor’s spokesman Mohammad... read more

PUL-I-KHUMRI/FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Seventeen villages have been cleared of insurgents in Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province, while six insurgents were killed and another 12 wounded in northeastern Badakhshan province, officials... read more