An earthquake of 42 magnitude on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday the National Center for Seismology stated ...

The mighty Hindu Kush mountain range cuts through the province, which is home to Afghanistan’s highest peak, Mount Noshaq at 24,580 feet (7,492 metres) tall. Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for ...

How many caves are there? Thousands. Afghanistan's rugged terrain is honeycombed with natural caverns and man-made tunnels. The Hindu Kush mountains are pocked with caves scooped out of limestone ...

Situated over an impressive 800-kilometer span, the Hindu Kush mountain range winds through the heart of Afghanistan, reaching into Northern Pakistan and Tajikistan. This geological marvel ...

A family flees across the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan on their way to become refugees in Pakistan (1988) Two young Afghan fighters share a joke during a lull in fighting in fierce ...

One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

With its picturesque views overlooking the Hindu Kush mountain range, an award-winning Pakistani tourist resort, Villa Ayun, based in Chitral, Pakistan, looks like something out of an Enid Blyton ...

Two successive earthquakes in the Hindu Kush mountains in March 2002 killed more than 1,100 people. An earthquake in May 1998, in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces in northern Afghanistan ...

In his book titled “Afuganisutan no Shinryojo kara” (From a clinic in Afghanistan), Nakamura documented how nature irrigated farmlands in summer with melted snow from the Hindu Kush mountain ...

Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes - especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range as it lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. In June last year, the province ...

A disaster risk reduction hub for the Hindu Kush Himalayas inaugurated, Sacred groves recognised as forests. Read our news ...

Chitral Gol National Park, nestled in the Hindu Kush mountains of western Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan, is one of the last strongholds for the species, and also happens to be the ...