Afghanistan

Afghan Gov’t To Reconstruct Nine School Buildings In Eastern Logar Province

KABUL, Oct 29 (NNN-ANA) – Provincial administration has decided to rebuild the buildings of nine schools, in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported, today.

The buildings would be reconstructed at a cost of 100,000 U.S. dollars and the reconstruction work would start soon, said provincial education directorate spokesman, Shah Poor Arab, the report said.

Many schools and colleges had been destroyed or damaged during the past 20 years of the U.S.-led so-called “war on terror” in Afghanistan, which ended in Aug, last year.

Clash Over Land, Claimed Four Lives, Wounded Three In Afghan Province

PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Oct 25 (NNN-ANA) – A clash between two families, over the ownership of a farmland, in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, claimed the lives of four persons and injured three others yesterday, the provincial police spokesman, Shir Ahmad Burhani, said today.

The clash, according to the official, erupted last night, after one family claimed the ownership over a piece of land, while another rejected and resorted to firearms, which resulted in the killing of four persons, two from each family.

Afghan Gov’t Begins Reconstruction Of Major Highway In Southern Region

KANDAHAR, Oct 9 (NNN-ANA) – The Taliban-run caretaker administration, has started the reconstruction of a major highway in the southern Kandahar province, officials said.

In the first phase, 55 km of the road linking Kandahar to the neighbouring Zabul province, would be reconstructed, followed by the reconstruction of highways linking Kandahar to Kabul and Kandahar to Herat, said Bakht Mohammad, who is with the reconstruction project.

The first phase project will be finished in five months, with funds provided by the administration, the official said.

Women protesters demand more security after Afghan bombing

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A group of Afghan women Saturday protested a suicide bombing that killed or wounded dozens of students in a Shiite education center in the capital Kabul a day earlier, demanding better security from the Taliban-run government.

The demonstration was quickly broken up by Taliban police.

The bomber struck an education center Friday packed with hundreds of students in a Shiite neighborhood, killing 19 people and wounding 27. Among the casualties were teenagers taking practice university entrance exams, a Taliban spokesman said.

Afghan Police Discovered Weapon Cache, Arrest Five In Eastern Kapisa Province

KABUL, Sept 18 (NNN-ANA) – Afghan police discovered a weapon cache and arrested five persons for keeping arms illegally, in the eastern Kapisa province, the Interior Ministry said, in a statement here, today.

During a cleanup operation yesterday, police personnel, besides discovering 21 stocks of assault rifles, including AK-47, also found and confiscated two sets of walkie-talkies, a few hand grenades, a laptop computer, and a number of ammunitions, the statement said.

China asks the US to return Afghanistan's foreign reserves to Kabul

15 Sep 2022; MEMO: China said, on Thursday, that the US-blocked Afghan foreign reserves should be returned immediately so that Afghanistan could utilise them independently, Anadolu News Agency reports.

"The frozen assets are life-saving money of Afghan people, which should be returned immediately, disposed of by Afghanistan independently, and used for the improvement of the livelihood and peaceful reconstruction," Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, said.

Afghanistan: Black Hawk helicopter crashes during Taliban training exercise, killing three

KABUL, Sept 10 (Reuters) - A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a Taliban training exercise in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, killing three, the group's defence ministry said on Saturday.

"An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown ... for training, crashed due to a technical problem inside the campus of the National Defence University," said Ministry of Defence spokesperson Enaytullah Khowrazmi, adding five people were also injured.

Key cleric among 18 killed in mosque blast in W. Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- A total of 18 people have been confirmed dead and 23 others were injured as a blast ripped through a mosque in Herat city, capital of Afghanistan's western Herat province on Friday, a local official said.

"A total of 18 persons including prominent cleric Mawlawi Mujib Rahman Ansari and his brother Habib Rahman Ansari were killed and 23 others injured in a blast outside the Gazar Gah mosque in Herat city today," the provincial administration spokesman Mawlawi Hamidullah Matawakil told reporters.

Afghanistan receives fresh batch of 40 mln U.S. dollars cash as humanitarian aid

KABUL, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan received another fresh batch of 40 million U.S. dollars in cash as humanitarian aid late on Monday, the country's central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), said in a statement released here Tuesday.

"As part of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, 40 million U.S. dollars in cash arrived in Kabul yesterday (Aug. 29) and was transferred to one of the country's commercial banks," DAB said in the statement.

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