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
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
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. Haji NamatullahPopal:
Elected Senator:
Son of Haji Abdullah, Haji NamatullahPopal is born in the Nava District of southern Helmand Province in 1953. He is a school graduate and served as office manager in the restive Khost Province.
Contacts: 0799760747
22 – Alhaj Abdul AhadSultanzoi:
Elected Senator:

Helmand provincial council has 15 members. Four members have also served in the previous term while the rests are new faces. Mohammad Karim Attal is the head of the council, Ibadullah Alizai deputy head and Hayatullah Mayar is the secretary of the council.
1- Mohammad Karim Attal:

1 – Bost Radio:
 
Bost is one of the active radio channels in southern Helmand province, which was established under the leadership of Abdul Salam Zahid in 2008. This radio has broadcasts from 6 am to 11 pm and has covered 70 kilometers area.
 
Contacts: 0700787315, 0707810310
Email: [email protected]
 
2 – Sabawoon Radio:
 

The southern province of Helmand alongside its capital Lashkargah city is comprised of 14 administrative units as follow:  
1 – Lashkargah City:
Lashkargah is the capital city and populated part of Helmand province. There are civil and military airports, a number of factories, wide agriculture lands and markets in the city, where people are busy in their daily business.
 
2 – Nad Ali District:

HELMAND
72-Haji Abdul Hay Akhundzada
Elected from: Helmand, Votes: 2403

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Naeem Balouch, son of Habibullah was born in Zaranj city of Nimroz province in 1951.
He got primary education in Nimroz and had gotten his BA from the military academy. After being graduated as lieutenant, Naeem worked at eight military division until 1978.
Later he landed his job and started his struggle against the soviet occupation.
He acted as police chief of Nimroz between 1992 to 1995. He fought against the Taliban 1995 till 2001. He also worked as intelligence chief of Nimroz, Ghor and Helmand provinces from 2002 to 2009.

 
LASHKARGAH (PAN): The fifth death anniversary of journalist Abdul Samad Rohani was observed in southern Helmand province on Saturday.
Rohani, who worked for Pajhwok Afghan News and the BBC in Helmand, was killed after being abducted by unidentified men five years ago.
His dead body was found a day after his abduction in the Bolan cemetery of Lashkargah, the provincial capital.

Helmand (PAN): The widely-known Helmand province--- rich in culture and tradition—occupies a significant geo-strategic importance that is laying west of Afghanistan at 60 degree altitude, and 29 degree latitude.
Having 61,829 square meters area, Helmand shares border in the east with the southern Kandahar, in north with Uruzgan, Daikundi and Gor provinces, Farah and Nimroz in its west while sharing 162 kilometers long border with the Durand Line in the east.

Helmand people are not happy with the existing government, and they are going to participate in the upcoming elections. About 800 families who have come from Helmand are living in tents west of Kabul near Qambar Square. They have been living in Kabul for the past two years because of fighting in Helmand province, located in the volatile southern zone of the country. The report below was prepared on the basis of interviews with four of the migrated people last week.

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