Wakhan News Today

Afghanistan's wild and mountainous Wakhan Corridor is an isolated region, home to the rare snow leopard and to a human culture that has gone unchanged for centuries. People still get their flour for baking from water-powered grist mills. Host Marco Werman speaks with National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek, about his trek through this rugged alpine wilderness.

RECENTLY, an important development has seemingly gone unnoticed in Pakistan. With the construction of a 50km stretch...

JUI-F chief insists army should stay away from polls

Ten wagons of Afghanistan's goods bound for Turkey have passed through Tehran and are now on the way to the Razi border in northwest Iran, local media reported on Monday. IRNA news agency, citing the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development of Iran, said that Afghanistan Rail Development Consortium dispatched the consignment without going through

Nokerguly Atagulyev, the head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan, has visited Herat province for trade talks, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced on Saturday. The ministry said in a statement that the purpose of the Turkmen delegation’s visit is to help reduce Afghanistan’s trade deficit, to foster commercial and economic

KABUL (Pajhwok): Acting Defense Minister Maulvi Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid and Chinese ambassador in Kabul have discussed problems concerning border affairs and the Wakhan corridor project

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the war-torn nation a major logistics point for regional exports, including oil from Russia to South Asia, the country's commerce minister said. Following a meeting between representatives of the three countries in

The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the…

KABUL: The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed...

The Taliban has agreed with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to build a logistics hub in western Afghanistan aimed at making the…