August 16, 1992 KABUL (AIP): Afghan deputy defence minister has been dismissed from his post. The AIP correspondent from Kabul said that Brigadier Abdul Hakeem had been appointed three weeks ago by Defence Minister Ahmad Shah Masood. Abdul Hakeem is associated with Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmaty...

August 15, 1992 PESHAWAR (AIP): The efforts of two prominent Afghan leaders to broker a ceasefire between Prof. Rabbani and Hekmatyar are on the verge of collapse. The AIP sources said that Maulvi Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi and Maulvi Younus Khalis urged Prof. Rabbani, Prof. Sayyaf and Hekmatyar...

August 15, 1992 JALALABAD (AIP): Governor of Nangarhar Haji Abdul Qadeer has said that some 50,000 people have left Kabul due to the ongoing fighting. He while talking to AIP said that the displaced people were staying along Kabul-Jalalabad Highway in the open sky. The governor said that th...

August 15, 1992 KABUL (AIP): Normalcy is fast returning to Kabul city after one week fierce fighting. Most of the shopkeepers opened their shops this morning. The AIP correspondent visited various areas in the city. He said that shopkeepers, government servants and general masses went to t...

August 15, 1992 PESHAWAR (AIP): A prominent Afghan leader Maulvi Muhammad Younus Khalis has voiced concern about the security of foreign dignitaries staying in Kabul. Talking to AIP, he said that his party could make arrangements for the stay of diplomats and foreigners in Jalalabad till the...

August 13, 1992 KABUL (AIP): Some 100,000 people have left Kabul City and took shelter in the adjoining areas due to fierce fighting. The AIP corresponded from Kabul said that women, children and elderly people took refuge in Paghaman located to the west of Kabul. The fleeing people have...

August 13, 1992 KABUL (AIP): As many as 150 civilians were killed and injured today (Aug. 13) when barrage of rockets were fired on various localities of Kabul City. The AIP correspondent from Kabul said that rockets struck Education Ministry, Post office and Wazir Akbar Khan are in the city....

August 12, 1992 PESHAWAR (AIP): Artillery shelling struck Radio Kabul today, however, there were no details of damages, reports. The AIP stringer from Kabul said that warplanes dropped bombs near the radio station, disrupting the transmission. It is learnt that channel one has not been work...

August 12, 1992 PESHAWAR (AIP): Sporadic clashes continued between opponents last night but fighting intensified early in the morning in Kabul. The AIP stringer said that the opponents are using rockets in the fighting at Kota Sangi area. A fierce clash has been going on between the fight...

August 12, 1992 KABUL (AIP): The last three days of fierce fighting left some 500 people dead and around 1100 wounded in Kabul, capital of war-torn Afghanistan, an AIP report said. The fighting continued on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday (Aug. 9/10/11) in various localities of the Afghan capital....