Badghis

 
HERAT CITY (PAN): The director of information and culture of northwestern Badghis province was detained on Monday on charges of misuse of his position and corruption, an official said.
Ahmad Ihsan Sarooryar was detained by Herat police after he was accused by Wolesi Jirga’s Audit Commission of misusing his position, Herat Prosecutor Gul Ahmad Ramesh said.

 
HERAT CITY (PAN): Fifteen hundred patients from northwestern Badghis province are being sent to neighbouring Turkmenistan for treatment over next nine months, officials said on Wednesday.
Governor Sharfuddin Majidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the patients were being sent under an agreement with Turkmenistan, adding 500 Afghan patients who had been sent to Turkmenistan’s south-eastern Mary province returned on Tuesday.
He said patients would be sent on completion of all legal process.

 
HERAT CITY (PAN): Two separate domestic violence incidents claimed four lives in Badghis and Ghazni provinces, officials say.
In the western province of Badghis, a man shot dead his wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law in Dara-i-Boom area of Qades district on Wednesday night, the district chief said.