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20 May 2021 - 18:51
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): The Public Works Ministry says it has stopped surveying the Kabul-Jalalabad second highway due to security reasons but local people and officials say there is no security problem on the route and the ministry is making excuses to delay its construction.
Local residents, officials and provincial council members say they have assured providing security for the road and there are no any threats left with recent operations conducted in the area.
Financed by the Asian Development Bank, construction work on the 150-kilometer highway was launched on September 14, 2010.
The highway is divided into two parts — a 50-kilometer portion from Spira Kandaw area of Azra district of Logar province and 100 kilometers from Dua Saraka area of Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar — but only 32 kilometers of the road from Kabul and 33 kilometers from Nangarhar side could be asphalted so far.
13 May 2021 - 14:51
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Businesspeople in eastern Nangarhar province say lack of electricity and security and continued land grab remain key obstacles to investments in the Sheikh Misri industrial town
The Sheikh Misri industrial town was established during the Taliban regime. Currently, dozens of factories are operating there, providing job opportunities for around 2,000 people.
The town has capacity for 635 factories which will provide employment to thousands of people if security, electricity and other facilities for the town maintained.
Tor Malang Shagiwal, director of the Nangarhar Chamber of Commerce and Industries, told Pajhwok Afghan News that three townships had been set up in the province for the development of industry.
A nice little earner – for everyone
Afghanistanʹs drug economy provides a regular income to rural communities in this extremely unstable country. With eighty-five percent of villages in the countryʹs south cultivating opium poppies, yield fluctuations have more to do with the weather than government policy. By Janet Kursawe
For over 25 years, Afghanistan has been the world’s main cultivation area of opium poppies and the primary supplier of opium, heroin, morphine and other opiates. In the past year, the country’s total cultivation area for opium poppies grew by 63 % to 328,000 hectares, thereby achieving a new record. The southern provinces of Kandahar, Uruzgan and Helmand are the centres of production.
75pc of mining sites controlled by militants and strongmen
Sun Online Desk
12th May, 2021 08:14:59
KABUL (Pajhwok): A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled by the Taliban, 281 by government and the remaining by power full individuals.
The ministry collected information on nationwide mining sites. A source in MoMP provided Pajhwok Afghan News the table based on that information. He said this information was collected between 2018 and 2020.
The information contains the number of mineral areas, locations of mines, who control them and types of minerals. The table also identities the miners, but Pajhwok does not mention them for lack of clarity.
10 May 2021 - 08:27
KABUL (Pajhwok): A table of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) shows that of 748 mining areas in different parts of Afghanistan, about 283 are controlled by the Taliban, 281 by government and the remaining by power full individuals.
The ministry collected information on nationwide mining sites. A source in MoMP provided Pajhwok Afghan News the table based on that information. He said this information was collected between 2018 and 2020.
The information contains the number of mineral areas, locations of mines, who control them and types of minerals. The table also identities the miners, but Pajhwok does not mention them for lack of clarity.
Biden leaves China a Xinjiang terrorism problem with US exit from Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Weekly Humanitarian Update (12 - 18 April 2021)
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South: Fighting continued with civilian displacement
During the reporting period, fighting between Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a non-state armed group (NSAG) continued with reported improvised explosive device (IED) detonations in Kandahar, Hilmand, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
In Kandahar province, the security situation was calm compared to last week but sporadic armed clashes were reported. IED clearance started in Arghandab district and 1,919 devices were defused in Bobar, Tabin, Barat Qalacha and Nagahan villages. Despite ongoing IED clearing operations, four civilians were injured by detonations in three different incidents during the reporting period. The threat of IEDs resulted in the temporary closure of three health facilities in Arghandab district.
OPINION / VIEWPOINT
By Liu Weidong Published: Apr 15, 2021 07:33 PM
Photo taken on Feb. 22, 2020 shows disabled children in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has documented more than 10,000 civilian casualties in 2019, of these more than 3,400 had been killed, said a report of the body released. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said that he plans to withdraw remaining US troops from the "forever war" in Afghanistan before September 11. He declared that the September 11 attacks of 20 years ago cannot justify American forces still dying in the nation's longest war.
Afghanistan: Weekly Humanitarian Update (8 - 14 March 2021)
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South: Fighting continued with civilian casualties
During the reporting period, fighting between Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and a non-state armed group (NSAG) continued with reported airstrikes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonations in Kandahar, Hilmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
In Kandahar province, fighting was reported in Arghandab, Panjwayi and Zheray and Maywand and some parts of Arghestan districts. On 9 March, the highway connecting Kandahar to Hilmand and to the western part of the country in the Hawzi Madad area in Zheray district is blocked and all traffic including ambulances diverted to other routes resulting in the interruption of regular public movements and placing people at increased threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
2021-03-14 13:05:35 GMT2021-03-14 21:05:35(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The personnel of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency have recently captured 19 militants in the country's eastern Nangarhar province, the province's governor said Sunday.
"The arrestees were captured in provincial capital Jalalabad city, Surkh Rod, Shinwar and Behsud districts within the past seven days," Governor Ziaulhaq Amarkhil told reporters.
The militants included 17 Taliban militants and two militants of the Islamic State (IS) group, he said.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel also seized in their operations weapons and ammunition including suicide bomb vests, pistols, mines and one improvised explosive device, said the governor.