Eight people including four women and a child died and two others were injured when two vehicles collided in Nangarhar province on Monday evening, local officials confirmed.

According to officials, the incident took place in PD6 of Jalalabad city.

The officials said that four women, and one child died and another woman was injured.

Jawad Sherzad,...

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Dozens of factories remain shut in Afghanistan&s northern province of Balkh due to a severe shortage of electricity, officials said.

Industrial parks in Balkh house about 400 factories, however at least 150 have been forced to close, most of them because of power shortages.

Sher Mohammad Sepahizada, an adviser of the provincial directorate of...

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Marking the first day of the Persian New Year, the United Nations Children&s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday called on Afghan families to send their children to school.

&Prior to the opening of schools on Wednesday this week (23rd March, first day of the educational year), UNICEF Afghanistan, is urging parents to prepare all eligible children...

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Afghanistan&s Interior Ministry has begun issuing licenses for weapons and armored vehicles, officials confirmed Monday.

Interior Ministry officials said although security has improved in Afghanistan in recent months, people who feel threatened can apply for a weapons license and for a license to use an armored vehicle.

&Citizens can...

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Pakistan&s Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that after 40 years of war, Afghanistan has a real chance of attaining peace and security and that members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) must act to prevent a crisis in the country.

In an article for Arab News, Imran Khan said: &After 40 years, there is a real opportunity...

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