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HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): A number of youth in western Herat province try to make it back to Iran on a daily basis after being forcibly

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The Ministry of Higher Education says over the next five years, well-equipped facilities, including laboratories, will be built for all academic fields of universities. In a press conference on Saturday, the scientific deputy minister of higher education Lotfullah Khairkhah said that science laboratories and education faculties will be equipped with the necessary equipment by the

Herat local administration has started the survey and exploration of lead mines in this province and the contracting company is supposed to start the process of surveying these mines. In a meeting, local officials said that about 13 types of minerals have been discovered in Herat; therefore, the central government will have big economic plans

HERAT, Afghanistan, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces have destroyed 350 acres of hashish farms over the past two months in western Herat province, hea

350 acres of hashish land destroyed in W. Afghanistan-

Al Jazeera : Herat, Afghanistan – The last time Aalam Gul Jamshidi saw her daughter was the night the 16 year old was married off to a man more than twice her age. Aziz Gul looked radiant in a sequinned, white wedding dress and a bright yellow headscarf, but there was fear in her otherwise solemn expressions. “If I go there, I’ll be sacrificed,” her mother remembers her daughter pleading that night last October.

HERAT, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Units of Counter-Narcotics Force have destroyed 5,000 acres of poppy cultivated farms in western Afghanistan Herat provi

Security forces destroy poppy farms in W. Afghanistan-

Child marriage, lack of education, financial desperation; a year since the Taliban takeover, girls’ futures are at risk.