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KANDAHAR (AIP): Newly appointed governor of the volatile Kandahar province officially start work today (Dec. 20). In this connection a ceremony was held in Kandahar City which was addressed by new governor Toryalay Veesa. The governor while addressing on the occasion said that he will work in co...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accepted the decision of parliament regarding rejection of minister-designate Said Muhammad Sadiq Farahng, a press release said Saturday (Dec. 20). A spokesman of the president office told media that the president will soon appoint acting minister fo...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): President Hamid Karzai appointed Toryalay Veesa as new governor of the volatile southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan after the removal of General Rahmatullah Raufi, informed sources said Friday (Dec. 19). Toryalay Veesa, is an agriculturist by profession and living in Afgha...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan Revenue Minister, Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi who tendered his resignation a few days back, officially said goodbye to his ministry and officials yesterday (Dec. 19), a spokesman said Friday. Aziz Shams, a spokesman of the revenue ministry told Afghan Islamic Press Ahadi wanted to brin...
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KABUL (AIP): The Commerce and Trade Minister Muhammad Amin Farhang has been dismissed from the ministry after parliament member heavily voted against him here on Thursday (Dec 18). The minister was severely criticized by the parliament members and the minister did not give proper answers to the que...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan border police seized 500 kg of drugs in the western Herat province bordering Iran last night, they claimed Wednesday (Dec. 17). Commander of southwestern border police zone, Brigadier Pohanyar Shah Malham told Afghan Islamic Press that border police ambushed drug smugglers i...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen killed a worker of a private construction company and wounded five more in Khost province late yesterday (Dec. 15), an official said Tuesday. The gunmen attacked the workers of the private company working on the construction of a boarder post in Ali Sher district...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted four workers of a road construction company in the eastern Kunar province yesterday (Dec. 15), police said Tuesday. The workers including a driver were on way to Asadabad, capital of Kunar province from Ghaziabad district when kidnapped by the gunmen...
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KABUL (AIP): Newly appointed minister for refugees, Abdul Karim Brahvi, has officially started work on Tuesday (Dec. 16). Talking to journalists soon after taking charge of his office said that he would urge officials of Iran not expel Afghans during the winter season. Barahvi also promised to...
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KABUL (AIP): Counter narcotics police destroyed two heroin laboratories in Badakhshan province last night, interior ministry said Tuesday (Dec. 16). The interior ministry in a statement said that 112 kg liquid opium in four barrel and some other items were recovered from the laboratories in Gandamko...