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KANDAHAR (AIP): Atleast one Canadian soldier was killed and several others wounded in a suicide attack in troubled southern Kandahar province today (Friday), security sources said.A suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into a vehicle of Canadian troops on Kandahar-Spin Boldak highway, 10 ki...
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KABUL (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a high-ranking intelligence officer and another police cop in Kapisa province yesterday, police sources said Friday.Intelligence officer Farooq Khan along with another policeman was on his way to home yesterday afternoon when unknown gunmen opened firing on...
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KHOST (AIP): Conflicting claims were made by both Taliban and government forces regarding causalities in Taliban attack on a security post in Paktia province last night. Taliban attacked Neknam post in Zarmat district of Paktia province but police did not suffer any damage while a Talib was killed w...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claim to have attacked a US base with rockets in Helmand province last night. Taliban fighters fired rockets at US base in Khud area of Charcheeno district, Urozgan province last night but have no details about the damage caused by the rockets attack, spokesman of Taliban gue...
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FARYAB (AIP): Two people were killed and as many wounded in an armed clash between the supporters of General Abdur Rasheed Dostam and General Abdul Malak in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan yesterday, police said Thursday.A clash erupted between the two groups after the supporters of Hezb-e-A...
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KABUL (AIP): A team of American diplomats in Kabul visited the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi Jail Tuesday and collected in formations about a US prisoner made hostage by rioting inmates.Well-placed sources informed Afghan Islamic Press that a delegation of US diplomats went to Pul-e-Charkhi Jail to gather...
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KABUL (AIP): Situation is still tense in Pul-e-Charkhi Jail today (Wednesday) as there was no sign which shows that the standoff has been resolved completely after negotiations between representatives of rioting prisoners and officials of National Reconciliation Commission. Meanwhile three big buses...
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JALALABAD (AIP): The authorities of eastern Ningarhar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday slapped a ban on chicken imports from Pakistan and directed all chicken traders to disposes off the chicken till evening.Agriculture Department of Ningarhar province has asked all the chicken sellers to either...
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PESHWAR (AIP): As many as 10500 chickens, believed to have developed bird flu virus, were culled at a poultry farm in Dehri Zardad, district Charsadda, 30 kilometer from Peshawar last night.District investigation officers and operation incharge, Dr. Sher Muhammad, while talking to journalists on Tue...
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KABUL (AIP): The Pul-e-Charkhi Jail standoff has not yet been over as bursts of gunfire were heard from inside the high-security jails just a while back (Tuesday afternoon).Security forces near Pul-e-Charkh confirmed to journalists that a group of prisoners tried to come out of the jail but police o...