Five dead as vehicle hits bridge in Herat
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Date 27/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Northern Alliance claimed to have captured several villages in Samangan province during an attack last night. A spokesman for the alliance told AIP that their forces attacked Dara Souf under the command of commander Atta Mohammad and captured more than forty villages...
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Date 25/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): A powerful explosion in Kandahar city on Herat road, killed at least ten Taliban intelligence officials and injured scores of others, officials and eyewitnesses said. The explosion occurred in a truck standing on Herat road (east of the city) where the residence of T...
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Date 24/8/99 PESHAWAR: A powerful explosion in Kandahar city caused severe panic among the people last night forcing them to flee the area, reports said. However, it could not be immediately confirmed that what kind of bomb it was, which spread a wave of severe panic and distress among the people...
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Date 24/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has said that Afghanistan and Pakistan were enjoying centuries-old religious, cultural and brotherly relations. A seven member Afghan delegation headed by Afghan foreign ministry is expected to arrive in Islamabad headed . T...
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Date 22/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan cleric has announced five million Afghanis as bounty on the head of US president Bill Clinton to be given to the person who kills him. An Afghan scholar, Maulana Abdur Rahim Muslim Dost, has announced 5 million Afghanis (US$113) in response to the US bount...
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Date 22/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): A spokesman for Masood group told AIP that they had formed a four member delegation for holding talks with Pakistani officials in Tajikistan. He said that the four member delegation headed by Younis Qanoni would discuss all the issues and ways to resolve disputes. A...
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Date 21/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): After a long gunbattle, Taliban repulsed the opposition forces attack to capture a strategically important mountainous portion in north of Kabul. According to details, anti-Taliban forces attacked a mountainous part, 50km in north of Kabul, from Qarah Bagh district...
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Date 21/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Information Ministry has strongly rejected a UNICEF claim accusing Taliban of sending underage boys to the war frontlines. Afghan information minister Amir Khan Muttaqi during an interview to state-run news agency Ba-akhtar, said that there was no truth in the...
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Date 19/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Ahmad Shah Masood forces attacked Taliban militia in north of Kabul but their attacked was bitterly repulsed by Taliban forces. According to details, Taliban forces came under attack by Masood army at Tapa-e-Surkh area in district Istalif, 50km in north of Kabul....
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Date 17/8/99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Chief of Afghan Air Force Mullah Muhammad Akhtar Mansoor has denied the claim of anti-Taliban forces that Pakistani air forces was cooperating with Afghan warplanes in their fight against Masoud army. Talking to AIP, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Mansoor said that it was a...
