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Election won’t happen in 6 district of Helmand

By: Pajhwok Reporter , Date:14/08/2019

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Presidential ballot will not take place in six districts of southern Helmand province due to insecurity, an official said on Wednesday. Shabbir Ahmad Hamid, provincial Independent Election Com... Read More

Helmand Wolesi Jirga candidates shut the IEC office

By: Zainullah Stanikzai , Date:29/12/2018

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga candidates from southern Helmand province on Saturday erected a protest tent in front of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), asking the government to r... Read More

Helmand IECC receive 350 complaints during elections

By: Zainullah Stanikzai , Date:24/10/2018

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) in southern Helmand province received 350 complaints mostly against the Independent Election Commission (IEC) during Wolesi Jirga... Read More

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21 security personnel killed in Nawzad fight

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The district poilce chief of Gresh district of southern Helmand province died in a roadside bomb late Wednesday, a senior police official said.
Col. Pacha Gul Bakhtiar told Pajhwok Afghan News on Thursday district chief Hikmatullah Haqmal came under attack in the Merman Dab locality of the area.
Haqmal succumbed to injuries in the hospital, he said, adding other police officials suffered casualties in the blast but he had no exact figure.

د ګرمسېر ولسوالۍ ملکي او نظامي مسوولين د فساد په تور له دندو لرې کړل شول

After Kabul, Herat is the second most populated province of Afghanistan. Located in the west part of the country, Herat borders Iran and Turkmenistan.
Bestowed with abundant natural resources in its remote parts, the province has copper, iron, coal, marble, lithium, salt, stucco and precious stones deposits.
Herat Mines and Petroleum Director Eng. Abdul Jamil Ilyas said that natural resources in the province had been divided into three categories -- large, medium and small.

LASHKARGAH (PAN): The southern Helmand has around 16 different mines of precious and semi-precious stones but growing lawlessness has provided a renewed impetus to its illegal excavation and smuggling, an official said.
Esmatullah Shams, provincial mines department head, said the province was extremely rich in natural resources such as uranium, magnate, carbonate, stucco, zing, plumbum, quicksilver, alabaster and others.
If properly excavated, the natural reservoirs of the province would considerably bolster the national economy, he added.

هلمنديان: د کوکنارو د مخنيوي په موخه پلې شوې پروژې بې بنسټه دي

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Tribal elders and farmers on Thursday claimed projects implemented by the Ministry of Counternarcotics to discourage poppy cultivation in southern Helmand province were not fundamental and had no impact.
Some 300 tribal elders and farmers attended a gathering in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, to voice their concerns about the increase in poppy cultivation in the province, the world’s leading opium producing region.