150 Afghan drug addicts reunite with families after rehabilitation
Kabul, Nov 15 (IANS) A total of 150 drug addicts have completed rehabilitation and reunited with their families in Afghanistan’s Logar province. The individuals underwent a three-month medical treatment and rehabilitation program, during which they also received professional and vocational training. Upon recovery, they were able to rejoin their families, Xinhua news agency reported quoting […]
Afghanistan security personnel rescue two kidnapped school children
Kabul, Nov 4 (IANS) Afghan security personnel have rescued two abducted children from kidnappers in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, provincial police spokesman Mullah Asadullah Jamshidi said on Monday. The children, aged 9 and 12, were on their way home from school before being kidnapped in Police District 6, Kandahar city, the capital of the province, […]
Water supply network, filtration plant inaugurated in Kabul
Kabul, Sep 13 (IANS) Afghan authorities have opened a water supply network and water filtration plant in Kabul, the country’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development said in a statement on Friday. Financially supported by United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund and implemented by the Ministry, the projects cost more than $518,000, said the statement, […]
Seven killed in landslide in Afghanistan
Kabul, June 24 (IANS) At least seven people have been confirmed dead as a landslide struck a village in east Afghanistan’s Paktia province, state-run media Bakhtar News Agency reported on Monday. The natural disaster happened late Sunday in the province’s Jakaorgor village in Janikhail district when the landslide swept through a residential house, reports Xinhua […]