PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy to former Taliban defense minister was arrested in southern Kandahar province, an official claimed. Police chief of Kandahar General Khan Muhammad said that Mulla Nida Muhammad was arrested from a house at Shorabak district...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Security chief of southeastern Khost province has said that the prisoners fled from Khost jail included a murderer who had been arrested abroad and a local court awarded him death penalty for killing a person two weeks bavk. Security...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Residents of two Afghan refugee camps in southern Kandahar province said that torrential rains damaged most of houses in the camps. Two delegations comprising 23 elders from Zeri Dashti and Spin Boldak camps reached Kandahar told...

PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan commission constituted to decide a unanimous national hymn Sunday approved a National Anthem for Afghanistan. The AIP sources from Kabul said that poetry of prominent Afghan poet and intellectual Abdul Rauof Banawa has b...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The newly appointed governor of southern Kandahar province has started his work formally on Sunday. The new governor Gul Agha Sherzai who occupied this post before was accorded warm welcome by the local elders after arriving at Ka...

PESHAWAR (AIP): At least one Taliban fighter and a security guard were killed when they attacked a district of southeastern Zabul province, governor said Saturday. Talking to AIP from Qallat, Governor of Zabul Khyaal Muhammad Hussaini said that T...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A driver was killed when Taliban attacked a convoy of trucks donated by Indian government in western Farah province on Friday, an official confirmed. A high ranking security official of Farah province Muhammad Rasool told AIP that...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The newly appointed Afghan cabinet will start its work formally on Saturday while first cabinet meeting to be presided over by President Hamid Karzai on Monday (December 27). The AIP sources from Kabul said that 27 cabinet ministe...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai named his new Afghan cabinet on Thursday (December 23) evening. The presidential polls were held in Afghanistan on October 09, 2004. On December 03, Mr. Karzai took oath of his office in Kabul. The cabine...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan president Hamid Karzai has announced his cabinet members on Thursday sidelining powerful warlords and regional militia leaders. Ministers and their portfolios are following: Names...