January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Consul-General in Peshawar said that Afghan planes would take all the intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in the next two days. Consul-General Abdul Khaliq Farahi told AIP on Thursday that the Saudi government had promised to take all the Hajjis to Jadda in...

January 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have killed six police in southern Helmond province on Wednesday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi phoned AIP on Thursday and said that Taliban killed the police in Washir district under the pretext to protect them form robbers....

January 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Armed bandits broke into 12 currency shops and took away foreign currency worth thousands of US dollars in northern Jowzjan province, police said Faheemi, Police chief of Shiberghan, capital of Jowzjan province said that the bandits looted 12 shops at Faisal Mark...

January 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Seventeen kg heroine was recovered from a vehicle at Kunduz-Taloqan Highway on Monday (Jan. 11), sources said The AIP sources said that security officials of Kunduz recovered 17 km heroine from a prado vehicle. The driver of the vehicle made his escape good. En...

January 11, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Poppy crop cultivated over hundreds of acres of land were eradicated and growers were charged with violating government ban on poppy in Uruzgan province, an official said. Security chief of Yakhdan district Muhammad Wazeer told AIP on Tuesday that poppy exterminat...

January 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Police chief of Uruzgan was injured on Monday when his vehicle hit a landmine in Deharwad district in the province, police said. Rozi Khan, provincial police chief sustained injuries when his vehicle struck a landmine reportedly placed by Taliban in Deharwad distr...

January 10, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Security Chief of Kunduz Mutlaib Baig said that a terrorist act was foiled following arrest of three Afghans who were planning to blast fuel storage of a Chinese company in the province. Talking to AIP, the security chief said that thee Afghans working a Chinese c...

January 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Four people were killed on Saturday (January 08) when the residents of two villages exchanged fire over the ownership of a piece land in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said. It is leant that a clash erupted between the residents of Huda and Lalma villages w...

January 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): One child was killed and two others wounded when a shell dumped in scrap blasted in southeastern Zabul province, governor said Sunday. Zabul Governor Khyaal Muhammad Hussaini told AIP that the shell was collected by children in scrap and dumped in a street at Ali...

January 09, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Laghman security chief on Sunday handed over heavy weapons to the national army under Disarmament and Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme. General Gul Karam handed over heavy weapons to the government forces at a gathering which was attended by the of...