8am: According to local sources in Balkh province, a young man in the Dawlat Abad district of the province ended his life with a gunshot to his head. The incident took place on Thursday, April 20, in Dahr-Abad village of Dowlat Abad district. The incidence of suicide, mostly attributed to mental health issues, has increased
Ariana: Russia’s consulate in northern Mazar-e-Sharif has reopened after almost two years, Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said Monday. Speaking to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, Kabulov said Alexey Pereverzev had been appointed as consulate general to the mission in Mazar. Click here to read more (external link). Related Muttaqi confident Taliban will
Khaama: The Taliban Security forces in the Northern Province of Afghanistan, Balkh, killed six Daesh key fighters in a special operation late Monday. Mohammad Asif Waziri, a spokesperson for Balkh provincial police, confirmed that in a special raid by the Taliban security forces, six key fighters of Islamic State Khorasan were killed in Nahr-e-Shahi District
Khaama: The Intelligence Department has announced the arrest of one of the perpetrators involved in several deadly attacks in the Balkh province of Afghanistan, including the assassination of Mohammad Dawood Muzamal, governor of Balkh, on Sunday. The department aired the “confessions” of a young person saying he was involved in at least five attacks, including
8am: The Taliban have recently started collecting data on people living in major cities in Afghanistan. Their local staff have been distributing forms to gather information about local citizens, which they have referred to as “local passports”. One of the questions on the forms asks about the number of widows and young girls in each
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 11, 2023 ISLAMABAD — A bomb blast tore through a Shiite cultural center in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province Saturday, killing a security guard and wounding at least eight people. A local police spokesman, Mohammad Asif Waziri, told VOA the blast had targeted a ceremony honoring the Afghan media in the
په خواشینۍ سره مو خبر تر لاسه کړ چې د بلخ والي الحاج ملا محمد داؤد مزمل د اسلام د دښمنانو لخوا په یوه چاودنه کې شهید شو. انالله لله وانا الیه راجعون د پیښې په اړه پلټنه روانه ده. شهید ملا مزمل ته جنة الفردوس، کورنۍ او متعلیقنوته یې جمیل صبر او عظیم اجر
Tolo News: Universities in the cold areas of the country started classes on Monday with the absence of female students. In December of last year, the Ministry of Higher Education announced that the female students are suspended from going to universities until further notice. The female students meanwhile expressed criticism over the closure of their
8am: The victims included four children, two women and one man, according to the Taliban-appointed spokesman of Balkh police. No information was immediately available on the reason and motives for this mass shooting. Since the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan, mass murders, revenge killings and criminal offenses in Afghanistan have increased unprecedentedly. Click here
8am: Local sources said on Tuesday, January 10, that the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Agents in Baghlan, in addition to shutting down women’s hairdressing salons, have warned land owners and dealers to refrain from issuing rent premises to women’s hairdressing salons. The Taliban have already closed women’s hair salons in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces.