JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Policewomen in eastern Nangarhar province are playing an important role in combating crime and terrorism, conducting joint operations with their male colleagues, an official acknowledged on Sunday. More than 50 policewomen,...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Forty cases of violence against women have been registered in the past two months alone in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Tuesday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Indonesia’s Minister for Women ’s Empowerment and Child Protection Prof. Dr. Yohana Susana Yembise on Tuesday said his country was ready to help empower the Afghan women through cooperation in different fields.

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): A woman, who has sought refuge at a government-run shelter in western Herat province, says the Taliban will try her in their court if she leaves the facility, a charge the rebels reject. Fatima, 30, who has been at the ‘the...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan ’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) chairperson Dr. Seema Samar on Sunday ‘time will prove the impact of Gulbadin Hekmatyar’s return on the peace process. Addressing a conference titled ‘national conference on...

NEILI (Pajhwok): More than 250 incidents of violence against women happened last year in central Daiknudi province, where females are still facing different types of abuse, said an official of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A woman from the Khewa district of eastern Nangarhar province has provided a source of income for 25 families with training on handicrafts. Nazia Latifi, 20, told Pajhwok Afghan News she would extend the business to other...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Hundreds of women on Thursday attended a gathering to mark the International Women’s Day in eastern Nangarhar province, highlighting problems the gender faces in the male-dominated society . Speaking on the occasion, Nangarhar...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul Municipality has appointed women for cleaning roads and streets of the capital -- an unprecedented step in the past 15 years that residents hailed as exemplary. The women expressed satisfaction with the work they do,...