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KHOST (AIP): A brother and his sister who were kidnapped from Kabul were found in Paktia province yesterday, police said Thursday (Feb. 15). Both the eight-year-old girl and 22 year-oil boy were intoxicated and their hands and legs had been tied with rope, police chief of Paktia province, Abd...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan security forces arrested three suspected people during operations conducted in the Zarmat district of Paktia province, police said Thursday. The suspected people were rounded up in separate operations conducted in different suspected areas of Zarmat district, said Abdul Rahman...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Feb. 15) claimed their fighters killed two foreign troops during a clash in the eastern Kunar province today. However, NATO-led ISAF rejected the claims as false. A spokesman of Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, phoned the office of Afghan Islamic Press from an undiscl...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people including a police commander were killed and three other policemen wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Helmand province yesterday, relative of deceased commander said Wednesday (Feb. 14). The vehicle of police commander, Nazar Muhammad was blown up with a remote control...
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KHOST (AIP): The Khost Governor Jamal Arsala has visited the affected nomad families in different area of the province and distributed assistance among them. The governor has made visits to Baak and Sabreo districts of the province and meets a number of nomads families affected in the recent hea...
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KHOST (AIP): Unknown gunmen set afire shops in the Baak district headquarters last night, district chief said Wednesday (Feb. 14). In-charged of Baak District of Khost province, Hussain Jan Sherazi told Afghan Islamic Press that two medical stores and one general store were gutted. The miscrea...
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KHOST (AIP): Afghan police arrested an active member of Taliban fighters in Khost last night, an official said Wednesday (Feb. 14). Mulla Daud Turabai who was an active member of Taliban network was arrested in the Gurbaz district of Khost province, said Salim Kamran, spokesman of Khost province....
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Humanitarian assistance extended to internally displaced people of Musa Qala district yesterday, an official said Wednesday (Feb. 14). Director of Rural Rehabilitation and Development Helmand province, Muhammad Omar Qanee told Afghan Islamic Press that aid goods including tents, bl...
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KABUL (AIP): While refuting allegations of civilian casualties during an air strike in Helmand today (Feb. 14), ISAF said precision laser guided munitions impacted on target and resulted in the death of confirmed "extremists leader" and his several associates. There was no appreciable damage to ot...
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KABUL (AIP): Japan to provide 6.7 million dollars assistance to Afghanistan, which will be spent on construction of roads in capital Kabul. In this connection an agreement was inked between the two countries in Kabul today (Feb. 13). The Afghan Interior Minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta who was a...