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Convicted candidate arrested before escape to Uzbekistan...

By: Pajhwok Reporter , Date:13/02/2019

KABUL (Pajhwok): Sentenced to five years in jail, a successful Wolesi Jirga candidate from southeastern Paktika province has been arrested in northern Balkh province while attempting to escape... Read More

Security personnel encouraged people to vote for specific c...

By: Pajhwok Reporter , Date:23/10/2018

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Some Wolesi Jirga Candidates have claimed security personnel in the districts and remote areas of southeastern Paktika province have encouraged people to vote for specific candidates. Ma... Read More

Paktika pine nut traders complain of huge losses

By: Pajhwok Reporter , Date:26/09/2015

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Pine nut traders in southeastern Paktika province complain they have to suffer losses worth millions of afghanis every year due lack of access to suitable markets. Most of the... Read More

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SHARANA (Pajhwok): Civil society activists and the youth on Wednesday demanded the government banish corruption from the public sector offices in southeastern Paktika province.
They held a gathering at the Tribal Affairs Directorate in Sharana, the provincial capital, calling for tainted officials to be prosecuted.
Khurshid Aman Katawazi, deputy head of the Coordination Office of Civil Society Groups in Paktika, told the gathering corruption ran rampant in the provincial administration.

Corruption rampant in Paktika offices: activists

پکتيکا کې ستونزو ته د حل موندلو لپاره کمېسيون جوړېږي

Paktika is located to the southeast of the country, bordering Paktia and Ghazni in the north. In its northeast is lying Khost and southwest north and South Waziristan Agencies. Baluchistan province of Pakistan and Zabul are located to its west.
1- Katawaz fuel and gas basin:
Katawaz fuel and gas basin is located to the north of Sharan, the capital of Paktika province. The location is close to Yahyakhel, Zarghoon Shahar, Janikhel and Khoshamand districts. Measuring 40,000 square kilometres area, thicknesses of its sedimentary jewels reach 6,000 metres.

پکتيکا: د سليمان خېلو قوم د افغان دولت ملاتړ وکړ

KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday travelled to the Yahyakhel district of southeastern Paktika province to meet relatives of the victims of a suicide attack on a volleyball tournament.

On Nov 23, a suicide bomber attacked crowds watching the final match of an inter-district volleyball tournament, killing more than 60 people and injuring 84 others.