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HERAT (AIP): Police and intelligence personnel recovered a businessman during joint operation in Heart province today (Aug. 06), police said Wednesday. Haji Naseeruddin was abducted 12 days back in the Enjeel district and the abductors had demanded 5000 US dollars in exchange for the release of t...
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HERAT (AIP): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped an intelligence worker with two aides in the western Ghor province yesterday (Aug. 05), police said Wednesday. The employee of National Security Department of the Tolak district of Ghor province was travelling to Herat with two aides when his vehicle was...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): A poultry farm reconstructed at cost of three million US dollars by USAID was opened by Governor Muhammad Gulab Mangal in Lashkargah, capital of Helmand province yesterday (Aug. 05). An official of the poultry farm told Afghan Islamic Press that 5000 chicks were imported from Hola...
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HERAT (AIP): Nine people were killed and one wounded in traffic accident in the western Farah province yesterday (Aug. 04), an official said Tuesday. The accident was happened in Kandahar-Herat highway in Farah Rod district when a passenger vehicle collided head on with a truck coming from opposi...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban Tuesday (Aug. 05) claimed they had captured the headquarters of Jaghato district of Wardak province last night. Local officials, however, said police repelled the Taliban attackers. Police strong resistance pushing back Taliban after they attacked the centre of Jaghato distr...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead a judges in Gereshk district of Helmand province today (Aug. 03), police said Sunday. Abdul Aziz, a district judge, was on his way to home from court when killed by gunmen in the vicinity of Gereshk town, said Muhammad Hussain Andiwal, police chief of...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Two people were killed in a mine explosion in the bordering Spin Bodak District of Kandahar province today (Aug. 04), police said Monday. Commander of Spin Boldak borer police, General Abdur Raziq, told Afghan Islamic Press that these people were planting landmine at a roadside wh...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Two of the three judges, kidnapped by unknown gunmen a few days back, were freed yesterday (Aug. 02) after paying ransom, governor said Sunday. Kidnapped judges Qazi Gul Muhammad and Qazi Habib were released after each of them paid 300,000 afghani as ransom, Abdullah Wardak, governo...
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KABUL (AIP): Police recovered seven kilogram of opium from a vehicle in Balkh province yesterday (Aug. 02), Interior Ministry said Sunday. The opium was recovered from a passenger bus during search in Mazar Shari, capital of Balkh province, the interior ministry said in a statement. The inter...
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ISAF soldiers remain unhurt in explosion Aug 2 KABUL (AIP): A bomb explosion conducted on ISAF patrolling party in Ghazni province yesterday (Aug 1) but no loss of human lives was reported in the incident, says a press release of ISAF. The release issued to AIP said that the explosion was occur...