Former US Special Representative for Afghanistan Peace Zalmay Khalilzad has urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the international community to censure Pakistan’s military strikes on Afghanistan. In a post on X, Khalilzad said thirteen people had been killed in the air attacks. He called on OIC and the broader international community to denounce More
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has voiced deep concern over civilian casualties resulting from Pakistani military airstrikes in Afghanistan. In a post on his X account, Bennett said: “I am deeply concerned by reports of numerous children and other civilians being killed following renewed conflict between Pakistan More
Five people remain missing following Saturday night’s airstrikes by the Pakistani military in Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar, while two children were injured in Khogyani district and another child was shot and wounded in Momandara. The airstrikes targeted a religious seminary in southeastern Paktika province and a residential house in eastern Nangarhar. On Sunday, burial More
Nine people were killed and 35 others injured when a 404-model passenger bus overturned in western Badghis province on Sunday, officials said. Police spokesperson Sadiqullah Sediqi said the accident occurred before noon in the Posht-i-Lama area along the Badghis-Herat highway. He attributed the crash to driver negligence. Women and children were among the victims, though More
The International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF) has condemned the Pakistani military regime’s airstrikes on Afghanistan, calling for an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into the attacks. The Pakistani military carried out airstrikes on a religious seminary in southeastern Paktika province and on a residential house in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday night. According to reports, More
Several Afghan politicians have strongly condemned the recent attacks by Pakistan’s military regime, saying that instead of addressing its internal failures and problems, Islamabad is targeting innocent civilians. On Saturday, Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Paktika on a seminary and in Nangarhar on a residential house. According to reports, in the village of Gardi Kach, More
Three people were killed in a traffic accident on the Kabul–Kandahar highway in Maqur district, southern Ghazni province. Abu Khalid Sarhadi, spokesperson for the Ghazni Police, told Pajhwok that the incident occurred this morning (Wednesday) in the “Bazko” area of Maqur district, when a cargo truck collided with a passenger bus. He added that three More
Five people have been killed and a child injured in a traffic accident in southern Ghazni province, police said on Tuesday. n a statement, police headquarters said the accident occurred when a truck collided with a passenger bus on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Ab Band district on Monday. It said five people lost their lives More
The European Commission says that over the past 37 years, mines and explosive remnants of war have caused the deaths and injuries of more than 45,000 people in Afghanistan. In a report published today (Monday), the Commission stated that since 1989, more than 45,000 Afghan civilians have been killed or injured by mines and explosive More
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum says that more than 100,000 people have been employed directly and indirectly in gold mining projects in Badakhshan province, and that work has also begun on 17 development projects worth 223 million Afghanis through the social services of contracting companies. The ministry wrote on its X page that during More
