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 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...

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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...