Date 11-6-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): Professor Burhanu Din Rabbani has stepped out of the selection process for the country upcoming leadership. Vice Governor Ningrahar Dr Muhammad Asif told AIP that a meeting of Mujahideen including professor Burhanu Din Rabbani, Professor Sayaf, Governor Herat Muhamma...

Date 10-6-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks were started between Hamid Karzai and former Shah in Loya Jirga Hall to bring one party to the upcoming election race. AIP correspondent told that talks were started in a serious manner and every party was presenting their arguments for their own side. It i...

Date 9-6-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghanistan Supreme Court has extended favour to President Hamid Karzai and demanded of the Loya Jirga to elect him. In a special meeting of the Supreme Court held keeping in view the prevailing condition, Chief Justice Fazli Hadi Shinwari told AIP that the meeting t...

Date 8-6-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as 45 refugees were killed when their ill-fated bus fell into Kabul River. The accident happened to a bus having no E 9794, 60km away from Jalalabad in Sarobi. The refugees were on their way to Kabul including six families from Karachi. The dead body of...

Date 2-6-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): Scores of US forces have started an operation in Ningrahar province near the Pakistan border. The operation was started in the north of Torkum in the area of Shamshad. Sources said to AIP that all routes leading towards Pakistan are also closed by the forces. Th...

Date 31-5-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan refugees residing in North Waziristan have demanded of the government to give them representation in Loya Jirga. The demand was made in a public meeting of 10 refugees camps. Refugees representative in NWA Haji Miaki Jan told AIP that more than 2,50,000 r...

Date 30-5-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): The US camp was fired by rockets in Gardaiz on the very first time, sources said to AIP. A resident told that the camp is situated 5km away from Gardaiz-Khost Highway in the east and the voice of the rocket attacks were heard in the city. Governor spokesman said t...

Date 30-5-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): The pamphlets have now reached to Peshawar in which the Loya jirga was termed as US conspiracy and jihad was also termed mandatory on every Muslim. The pamphlets were thrown secretly in the area of Board where 95 percent of traders are Afghans. It said that US wan...

Date 28-5-02 PESHAWAR (AIP): As many as eight persons were killed and 21 are injured in traffic mishap near Jalalabad city, police said to AIP. A coach and a bus collided head-on near the airport some three kilometer away. The injured were rushed to the hospital and people were appealed for b...

Date 26-5-02 PESHAWAR: Four video cassettes shops were destroyed by severe bomb blasts in Khost, police said to AIP. Security personnel said that due to closure of shops, no human loss has occurred adding that human causalities might be there, if the blast occurred in day time. On the other a w...