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PESHAWAR (AIP): Two bomb blasts rocked Khost City last night, however, there was no report of casualties. Informed sources told AIP that an explosion took place in front of Khost police headquarters while the second blast occurred behind traffic police headquarters. Authorities of Khost said...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan security forces on Friday launched large-scale search operation to recover three kidnapped foreigners who had been abducted by unknown persons from Afghan capital on Thursday. Three foreign election workers including two women were abducted by unidentified gunmen from Kabu...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A landmine blasted in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday morning but there were conflicting reports about the casualties. A Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP on Wednesday afternoon that six or seven American soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a lan...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Governor of Ghor province Qazi Abdul Qadeer Elim has said Thursday that an anti-government commander Ahmad Khan has agreed to hand over heavy weapons following his negotiations with foreign forces. The governor told AIP over phone that progress had been made in talks between co...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday claimed to have killed seven Afghan and American soldiers in Zabul province. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over phone that the American and Afghan troops launched a clean-up operation against Taliban fighters at Dara-e-Khordak, Dai C...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): French Ambassador to Afghanistan Tuesday visited eastern Jalalabad City and called on governor Nangarhar and other officials. AIP stringer in Jalalabad said that the French ambassador arrived by road from Kabul, and attended a gathering organised by elders, local chieftains and l...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Authorities of Jalalabad City, Nangarhar province recovered 70 kg heroin from a truck on Tuesday and arrested two persons, an official said. Talking to newsmen at Jalalabad, director of Anti-Drug Cell in Nangarhar Mr. Ahmad Shah Heemat said they had been tipped off that heroin was...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A grand meeting of 22 district in-charges, elders and local chieftains was held in eastern Jalalabad City on Tuesday regarding prevention of poppy cultivation in Nangarhar province. Speaking on the occasion, Governor of Nangarhar Deen Muhammad said called upon the people no to cu...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Monday claimed several US and Afghan soldiers were killed on Sunday night in Kandahar, Zabul and Khost provinces. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over phone from an undisclosed location that five Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban attacked...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Counting of votes have completed in Oruzgan and Helmund according to initial results Hamid Karzai achieved landslide victory in both the provinces. According to detail 61540 votes were poled in Oruzgan province out of which 497 were declared invalid. Hamid Karzai got 46702 vo...