ZARANJ (Pajhwok): At least 12 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a security post in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said Monday. A local security official who wished to go...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The administrative chief for Khashrud district of southwestern Nimroz was killed in a landmine explosion on Saturday, an official said. A security source in the province, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News the...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Thirty-five couples tied the knot at a mass wedding ceremony arranged by a welfare organization in southwestern Nimroz province on Sunday. Haji Ibrahim Habibyar, head of the welfare organization, said the purpose of mass marriage...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The government on Wednesday reclaimed around 10,000 acres of land from its illegal occupants mainly powerful figures in Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimroz province.
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The number of women working in government offices has increased in southwestern Nimroz province, despite little work on females’ capacity building. Local officials say the women in Nimroz had played an active role in the previous...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): A businessman has been killed after being abducted by unknown gunmen in the capital of southwestern Nimroz province, police said on Sunday.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The police chief for Delaram district of southwestern Nimroz was killed on Sunday along with one of his bodyguards by Taliban insurgents, officials said. Najibullah Hayat, Delaram administrative chief, confirmed Lt. Abdul Hakim, the...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Local officials in southwestern Nimroz province say nearly 4,000 drug addicts spend their time in cemeteries and on roadsides in a miserable condition in the provincial capital, Zaranj. Mohammad Ali Ghamai, the counternarcotics...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The residents of southwestern Nimroz province have been increasingly taking interest in plantation of pistachio farms, an official says. Mohammad Akbar Sharifi, Nimroz’s agriculture director, told Pajhwok Afghan News during an...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Local officials on Tuesday said more than 78,000 kilograms of chicken meat imported from China and France to southeastern Nimroz province had been rejected and turned to the two countries. Mohammad Akbar Sharifi, provincial...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The Taliban have tasked their mobile teams with checking cars and passengers on the Zaranj-Dilaram highway in Khashrud district of southwestern Nimroz province, said local officials on Monday. Mohammad Hashim Noorzai, the district...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Forty-four prisoners have been released from the central jail in southwestern Nimroz province, said officials on Sunday. Governor Mohammad Sami said the 44 prisoners were released from the jail in Zaranj, the provincial capital, in...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Taliban ambushed and killed three police in Khashrud district of in southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Thursday. A security official, who did not want to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News the police, including one...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): A roadside bombing killed a highway group commander and a military officer in the Khashrud district of southwestern Nimroz province on Monday.
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): The first-ever exhibition showcasing historic objects, with some dating back to pre-Islamic era, kicked off on Thursday in southwestern Nimroz province, officials said. The exhibition in Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz, was visited...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): An irrigation project watering 5,000 hectares of land in the Chahar Burjak district of southwestern Nimroz province has been completed, an official said on Wednesday. Governor Mohammad Same told Pajhwok Afghan News the...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Land measuring 74,000 acres has been usurped by more than 100 individuals over the past few years in southwestern Nimroz province, local officials say. Only 1,350 acres of the usurped land has recently been retaken from their...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): There is even not a single security post on the dozens of kilometers long border of southwestern Nimroz province with neighboring Iran and Pakistan , letting militants and smugglers easily travel between the three countries.
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Flash flood destroyed several villages and swept away standing crops in the Chakhansur district of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Saturday. Mohammad Fazli, the town’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan...
ZARANJ (Pajhwok): Continuous rainfall has increased the flood threat for 20 villages in southwestern Nimroz province where 20 homes and 50,000 acres of arable land have been submerged, officials said on Thursday.