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3 individuals gunned down in Jawzjan

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Nov 11, 2020 - 11:06

SHEBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have shot dead, including head of district development assembly in the Faizabad district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Wednesday. Alif Shah, district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok...

Deaf sisters: Life will be worth living if peace returns

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Oct 25, 2020 - 09:33

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Twin deaf sisters, who have suffered immensely because of war, say they would welcome the Taliban with bouquets of flowers and hail them as brothers if the Taliban renounce violence and join the peace process.

Jawzjan governor back to work after 7 months

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Oct 17, 2020 - 19:51

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): The governor of northern Jawzjan province returned to his office from Kabul on Saturday after a break lasting seven months.

People all praise for Dortaj’s work as district chief

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Aug 06, 2020 - 15:12

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): The female district chief for Khan Chahar Bagh district of northern Jawzjan province says she was able to gain millions of US dollars from international community for dozens of development projects within the past three years...

Tired of drug abuse, Jawzjan boy wants treatment

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Mar 12, 2020 - 23:06

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Eleven years old Safiullah in northern Jawzjan province is addicted to heroin after consuming opium for months, but now he wants to get rid of the habit and seeks government’s help to rehabilitate himself.

3 uprising members killed in Jawzjan clashes

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Mar 03, 2020 - 17:00

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Taliban militants attacked uprising members on Shiberghan-Mazar-i-Sharif and Shiberghan-Sar-Pul highways on Tuesday morning in northern Jwazjan province, an official said. Police chief Maj. Abdul Wahid Wijdan told Pajhwok...

Key Taliban commander killed in Jawzjan attack

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Jan 27, 2020 - 18:05

SHEBRGHAN (Pajhwok): Local officials on Monday said a key Taliban commander and his bodyguard were killed while four others wounded during an attack of Afghan forces in southwestern Jawzjan province. On the other hand, Taliban say the people killed...

Jangal Bagh garden being revived in Jawzjan

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Dec 30, 2019 - 16:45

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Agriculture , Irrigation and Livestock department in northern Jawzjan province says the Jangal Bagh garden will be revived. Agriculture director Mohammad Alim Alami told Pajhwok Afghan News that at least 40,000 saplings would...

Taliban set free 40 elderly individuals in Jawzjan

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Dec 12, 2019 - 13:31

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Taliban militants have released 40 elderly individuals who were abducted two days back in the Faizabad district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Thursday. The elderly men were attending funeral prayers for...

Taliban abduct 40 elderly men from Jawzjan funeral

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Dec 10, 2019 - 15:22

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Taliban militants abducted dozens of elderly men from Fiazabad district of northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, an official said. Alaf Shah Attai, the district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the elderly...

Jawzjan protestors bury symbolic road corpse

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Nov 27, 2019 - 17:07

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Civil society activists in northern Jawzjan province buried a symbolic corpse of a non-asphalted road in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, on Monday. The protestors said work on the road was launched in 2014 with a stipulated...

Natural gas power plant inaugurated in Shebrghan

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Nov 21, 2019 - 17:35

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): A natural gas power plant worth $40 million has been inaugurated in Shebrghan, the capital of northwestern Jawzjan province, officials said Thursday. The project was inaugurated by Hamayon Qayumi, senior advisor to the president,...

Telecom firms warned against service blackout in Jawzjan

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Jul 08, 2019 - 18:52

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): The governor of northern Jawzjan province on Monday warned private telecom companies of not allowing them operate if they failed to offer 24 hours service in the province. Telecom companies in Jawzjan have decided to cease...

Taliban capture Jawzjan’s Qush Tepa district

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Jul 02, 2019 - 21:36

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Taliban militants captured Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province after two days of fighting with security forces, the governor said on Tuesday. Governor Mualvi Lotfullah Azizi told Pajhwok Afghan News clashes between...

30 Taliban, 6 security forces perish in Jawzjan battle

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Jul 01, 2019 - 22:10

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): More than 30 Taliban militants and six security personnel have been killed during an hours long clash in Qush Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday.

5 pro-govt militiamen killed in Jawzjan, Samangan

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Jun 26, 2019 - 12:41

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Three pro-government uprising members, who previously fought for Daesh, have killed six colleagues and injured two others in northwestern Jawzjan province. Mainullah, Qush Tapa district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok...

Women among 6 of a Jawzjan family slain

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Apr 07, 2019 - 22:28

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Six members of a family, including three women and a baby child, have allegedly been killed by an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander in northern Jwazjan province, residents and officials said on Sunday. The incident happened...

2 killed, 4 injured in Taliban attack on Jawzjan convoy

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Feb 20, 2019 - 20:22

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): At least two people were killed and another four wounded after Taliban gunmen attacked a convoy of a private company’s vehicles carrying fuel in northern Jawzjan province on Wednesday, officials said.

A Jawzjan widow who educated her 7 children

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Feb 20, 2019 - 17:45

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): A widowed woman in northern Jawzjan province saved her seven children from begging on streets and made her life comfortable by selling dairy products in a misogynic environment . The woman, Sharifa, is 55 years old and is the...

Rise in home burglaries worries Shiberghan dwellers

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Nov 27, 2018 - 23:52

SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Incidents of home burglaries have increased in Shiberghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, residents complain, but police say a joint team has been formed to arrest armed robbers. Farzin Fahimi, a resident of...

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