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Kabul Municipality to Hire 400 Women for City Clean Up
The cleanliness department of Kabul Municipality to hire 400 female workers for cleaning roads and streets of the capital Kabul.
“We are going to hire 2,000 workers in total for this section that includes 20 percent of women (400) for cleaning and informing people door-to- door,” said head of Kabul Municipality’s cleanliness department, Ahmad Behzad Ghayasi.
Some of the women who are currently working there expressed satisfaction with the job they do, but complained about their incomes and the harassments of Kabul residents.
“When people watching me, saying why her other family members are not working, they don’t know I am a widow and I have no choice but to sweep [roads], if there was no problem I would not have done this work,” said worker Gul Afroz.
However, Gul Afroz is happy and feeling proud sweeping roads in district four of Kabul city.
“I am happy and why I shouldn’t be, it earns me the income to cover my house rent and food & water expenses. We should be happy earning halal income.”
According to officials there are about 50 women working in district four of Kabul city, however, the overall numbers of female workers are reportedly over 3,500 in Kabul Municipality.
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More than 800 Afghan refugees deported from Pakistan in two days
As many as 837 Afghan refugees have been forced to return to their country through Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings in the last two days, officials announced on Saturday.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement that 90 families comprising 468 people returned through Torkham crossing.
Another 67 families comprising 369 people returned through Spin Boldak crossing, it said.
The returnees have been introduced to international organizations to receive aid, and the Islamic Emirate has also paid 10,000 Afghanis to each family.
Pakistani government launched the second phase of deporting illegal refugees five days ago.
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Iran executes four Afghan prisoners
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
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Roof collapse kills two in Helmand
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
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