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PESHAWAR (AIP): Over 50 people were killed in two suicide explosion at the gates of Pakistan Ordnance Factory in Wah Cantt, near Rawalpindi today (Aug. 21), media reported Thursday One bomber detonated himself at one gate and the other on another gate when the workers were leaving factory after the...
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KHOST (AIP): Foreign forces air strike in Zarmat District of Paktia province last night left four Taliban dead and three wounded, police and Taliban said Wednesday (Aug. 20). The aircrafts of foreign forces bombed Taliban police in Zarmat District, killing nine Taliban including two commanders Mu...
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KABUL (AIP): French President Nicloas Sarkozy arrive in Afghanistan Wednesday (Aug. 20), a day after 10 French troops were killed and 21 wounded in deadliest Taliban ambush in Kabul province. The French presidentwas accompanied by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Defense Minister Herve Morin a...
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KABUL (AIP): Police seized 150 kg of opium and arrested a suspected in Uruzgan province yesterday (Aug. 19), Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The interior ministry in a statement said the opium was recovered from a vehicle, seven kilometers away from the city, during search. Ends Posted @ 12...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died of a non-combat injury today (Aug. 20) in eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said Thursday. The incident is under investigation, ISAF said without disclosing nationality and cause of the injury. Ends
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Taliban and two police were killed during a clash in the western Nimroz province last night, governor said Tuesday (Aug. 19). The firefight erupted after Taliban attacked a police post in Jaroki area, Zaranj, provincial capital, killing two police and wounding three more, sai...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Three Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack by some unidentified persons in Paktiak province. Confirming the incident, a spokesman of governor Paktika said that some unknown persons attacked on Tarwa, district headquarters with heavy weapons last night. He said that the forces de...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two security personnel including a military officer and wounded six more in the eastern Ningarhar province last night, sources said Monday (Aug. 18). The incident occurred in Farm Hada area, three kilometers to south of Jalalabad City when a vehicle of Ning...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation. The announcement was made in his address to nation on radio and television channels.
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MAIDAN SHAHAR (AIP): Ministry for Rural uplift has completed 41 reconstruction projects under National Solidarity Programme during the past one week in Maidan Wardak province. A statement issued by press office of Maidan Wardak province said 20 projects including potable water, construction of a...