PESHAWAR (AIP): A high military official of eastern Laghman province said Tuesday that Taliban insurgents fired rockets at 100-army brigade on Tuesday night, causing no casualties. An official of 100-brigade commander Khan Wali told AIP from Meh...

PESHAWAR (AIP): An election official was killed by Taliban on Monday in Paktika province, police said Provincial Police Chief Muhammad Raheem Ali Khel told AIP over phone from Sharana, capital of Paktika that Dr. Abdul Sattar was going to his cli...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday night claimed to have killed an election official in Paktika province. A spokesman for Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over phone that the election official Dr. Abdul Sattar was shot dead in at Yaha K...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan interim President Hamid Karzai appears to be leading the presidential elections after results received from eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. Talking to newsmen at Jalalabad, an election official Hidayatullah Watanyar said that...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Votes counting completed in southern Kandahar province on Sunday with Hamid Karzai bagging 84% votes in Zabul province. The total votes polled in Zabul province were brought to Kandahar stadium where election staff completed its co...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy Governor of Laghman province Dr. Lal Meer Jaffer and his son were injured on Thursday (Oct 14) when unknown assailants opened fire on them in Laghman. Mr. Lal Meer Jaffer told AIP over telephone on Saturday morning from hos...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Counting of votes started in eastern Jalalabad City on Saturday, sources confirmed. The sources said that the ballot boxes collected from eastern provinces were placed in Jalalabad where its counting begun. Ballots collected fr...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two Taliban fighters were killed while an American soldier wounded in a shootout in Oruzgan province on Thursday (October 15), an official said. Governor of Oruzgan Jan Muhammad told AIP that Taliban destroyed a vehicle of US force...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Ballot boxes brought from different parts of the country were being checked in southern Kandahar province on Monday, official sources said. An eyewitness who was present during checking process told AIP from Kandahar that the bal...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least one person was inured when a rocket fired by unknown persons landed at Mokrayaan area in Kabul on Monday night at 11:00 pm, sources said. There were no further details about the incident. Ends