In a rare occurrence, a mother in central Daikundi province has given birth to quintuplets for the first time. But two of the five babies did not survive. Dr. Ghani Samim, Director of the Public Health Department in Daikundi, said that the mother delivered the quintuplets at Zahra Bayat Hospital in Neili City, the provincial More

The Public Health Department of eastern Nangarhar province has recorded 1,914 cases of scabies in 25 outbreaks during the past seven months. Health officials said scabby breakouts since late March reached 25, which showed a significant spike in the cases of the unpleasant skin infection. Patients who have scabies complain about itchy skin and redness More

As many as 42,000 bottles of low quality syrup were sent back to Pakistan after being imported to southeastern khost province, officials said on Tuesday. Food Inspector at Khost Food and Drug Administration Dr. Gulzar said they denied entry to hundreds of low quality medicines and food items after evaluation at the central laboratory. According More

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) reports 292 civilians have fallen victim to landmines and explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan in the first six months of the current year. In a statement on X, OCHA wrote: “Since 1989, 45,000 Afghans have been casualties of landmines and explosive remnants of More

Iran executed eight prisoners condemned to death, including an Afghan and a woman, a human rights group Hangao said on Monday. In a statement, Hingao said these on death row people were executed in prisons of Karaj and Shiraz on Sunday. Mahdi Ali Akbari, Daood Barahawi and Sayeed Mohammadpur an Afghan, were sent the gallows More

US Embassy Chargé d’affaires Karen Decker has said during the third UN meeting on Afghanistan envoys reiterated demands for human rights, women rights and an effective counterterrorism strategy. Addressing roundtable with Afghan media representative on July 22, she said that UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peace building Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo welcomed the independent assessment on More

Canberra is looking for ways of compensating the families who were unlawfully killed or abused by Australian forces in Afghanistan, a media report said on Sunday. Compensation was one of the recommendations from the damning 2020 Brereton report, which found “credible information” that Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel were involved in serious crimes. The crimes More

Former member of Afghanistan’s peace negotiation team Nader Nadery has called for the review of the war in Afghanistan and how the war had affected public aspiration for a better future. In his testimony to the Afghan War Commission to examine roots of Afghanistan war Nadery said for two decades, Afghanistan’s political, social, and economic More

Pakistan has summoned the deputy head of the Afghan mission in Islamabad over a suicide attack on the Bannu Cantonment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The current interim government in Kabul has repeatedly denied Afghanistan’s involvement in fuelling instability in Pakistan. On Monday, militants attacked the Bannu Cantonment and killed eight military personnel, according to ISPR. More

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says two bureaus have failed to provide enough documents to determine that Afghanistan programmes complied with States vetting guidance. In a report on Wednesday, the US federal watchdog said three of the five State bureaus that had active awards in Afghanistan from March 1, 2022, through November More