Minute Mirror (Pakistan): In Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, the education department has instructed male employees to keep beards and female employees to wear hijab. The Directorate of Education warned employees that employees who do not follow the order can be dismissed from service. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: Source added armed men had ambushed this local Taliban official in Khogyani district. Taliban officials in Nangarhar do not comment on this incident. The Freedom Front, an anti-Taliban militant group, has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the head of counter-terrorism of the Taliban police in Khogyani, Nangarhar, and his two bodyguards. Click here
Khaama: An explosion took place near the money exchange market in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Tuesday security officials said. According to the governor’s office in the province of Nangarhar, the explosion took place on Tuesday, December 6, at around 2:00 local time at the money exchange market,
RFE/RL spoke to shopkeeper Charin Singh, who is believed to be the only Sikh remaining in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and the wider Nangharhar Province. He says attacks by militants have driven his family and other members of the Sikh community abroad.
8am: The TTP member was found dead on Thursday (November 17th) in a water canal in the Bati Kot district of eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. The TTP commander has been identified as Saifullah Babuji, a resident of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Babuji was reportedly a close affiliate of a TTP deputy, Amir Mufti Mazlom. The
8am: 11 people with severed heads were found in the Pachiragam district of eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Sources say that these bodies were found on Wednesday (September 30th) in the Barghuli area, Pachiragam district, Nangarhar province. Another source, who does not want to be identified, reports that the number of these bodies is 23. According
VOA News September 5, 2022 At least six people have been killed by an earthquake that has hit northeastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. Authorities say the death toll could rise. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Jalalabad, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. In June, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan, killing more than1,000 people. Some information
By Abubakar Siddique RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 31, 2022 Mira Jan lost his home, crops, and livestock in the devastating floods that have struck large swaths of Afghanistan. “Our house was swept away by the raging floods,” Jan, a farmer in the eastern province of Nangarhar, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. “We were only able to save
8am: Local sources in Nangarhar province report that a Taliban base in the province is attacked by the National Resistance Front (NRF). A reliable local source in the province, on the condition of anonymity, told Hasht-e Subh that the forces of NRF attacked a Taliban base in the Shruta area of Dara Noor district of
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 7, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Taliban security forces in eastern Afghanistan have extrajudicially killed dozens of suspected members and supporters of a local affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group, according to Human Rights Watch. The global human rights group has documented the alleged abuses in a report released Thursday, saying they