Afghanistan

SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Feb 9 (NNN-ANA) – Four commuters lost their lives and three others were injured, as their vehicle turned turtle, in Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province today, local police official, Kafayatullah Mutawakil, said.

The accident took place on a road linking Jawzjan to neighbouring Balkh province, in the wee hours of Thursday, leaving four dead on the spot and three injured, the official said.

Blaming reckless driving for the crash, the official, without providing more details, said that, an investigation had been initiated into the case.

SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan, Feb 9 (NNN-ANA) – Four commuters lost their lives and three others were injured, as their vehicle turned turtle, in Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province today, local police official, Kafayatullah Mutawakil, said.

The accident took place on a road linking Jawzjan to neighbouring Balkh province, in the wee hours of Thursday, leaving four dead on the spot and three injured, the official said.

Blaming reckless driving for the crash, the official, without providing more details, said that, an investigation had been initiated into the case.

HERAT, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan counter-narcotics police have rounded up 4,500 drug addicts from different parts of western Herat province over the past week and sent them to the rehabilitation center, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Monday.

The addicted persons would be reintegrated into their families after recovery, the media outlet quoted Faizuddin Rahimi, head of the provincial rehabilitation center, as saying.

KABUL, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from tertiary education.

A letter from the ministry was addressed to institutions in Afghanistan's northern provinces, including Kabul, where exams are due to take place from the end of February. The letter said those institutions that did not observe the rules would face legal action.

24 Jan 2023; MEMO: The seventh "Kindness Train" that departed from Ankara with the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reached Afghanistan's Herat province on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports.

According to the report, Sinan Ilhan, Turkiye's Consulate-General to Herat, welcomed the train with AFAD and Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) officials.

QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Jan 16 (NNN-ANA) – Heavy snowfall and freezing weather have claimed five lives, including four children, in Afghanistan’s western Badghis province, provincial administration spokesman, Ahmad Jan Hanzala, said today.

“Four children and a man lost their lives due to heavy snowfall and freezing weather, in Qadis district of Badghis province,” Hanzala told reporters.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard have been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul, police said Sunday.

Mursal Nabizada was among the few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

It is the first time a lawmaker from the previous administration has been killed in the city since the takeover.

Local police chief Molvi Hamidullah Khalid said Nabizada and her guard were shot dead around 3 a.m. Saturday in the same room.

PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Jan 11 (NNN-ANA) – The police have rounded up 30 drug addicts in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, and shifted them to a rehabilitation centre, provincial police spokesman, Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Burhani, said yesterday.

The official told local reporters that, “the addicted persons are not criminals and all the 30 drug addicts have been taken to a rehabilitation centre, to get treatment and would be reintegrated to their families, after getting discharged from the centre.”

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Jan 8 (NNN-ANA) – The rescue team has recovered three miners from under the debris, after 61 hours, in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province, the provincial director of information and culture, Qari Maazudin, said today.

“The remaining two miners were recovered from under the debris at 09:20 p.m. yesterday, while another was rescued on Friday, and thus the rescue operation is over after 61 hours,” Ahmadi told reporters here.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities have inaugurated a water canal in Dawlatabad district of the northern Balkh province to irrigate more than 8,000 hectares of land, a provincial government official Mohammad Ibrahim said Saturday.