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KABUL (AIP): French President Nicloas Sarkozy arrive in Afghanistan Wednesday (Aug. 20), a day after 10 French troops were killed and 21 wounded in deadliest Taliban ambush in Kabul province. The French presidentwas accompanied by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Defense Minister Herve Morin a...
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KABUL (AIP): Police seized 150 kg of opium and arrested a suspected in Uruzgan province yesterday (Aug. 19), Interior Ministry said Wednesday. The interior ministry in a statement said the opium was recovered from a vehicle, seven kilometers away from the city, during search. Ends Posted @ 12...
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KABUL (AIP): A soldier of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died of a non-combat injury today (Aug. 20) in eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said Thursday. The incident is under investigation, ISAF said without disclosing nationality and cause of the injury. Ends
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Taliban and two police were killed during a clash in the western Nimroz province last night, governor said Tuesday (Aug. 19). The firefight erupted after Taliban attacked a police post in Jaroki area, Zaranj, provincial capital, killing two police and wounding three more, sai...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Three Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack by some unidentified persons in Paktiak province. Confirming the incident, a spokesman of governor Paktika said that some unknown persons attacked on Tarwa, district headquarters with heavy weapons last night. He said that the forces de...
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JALALABAD (AIP): A roadside bomb killed two security personnel including a military officer and wounded six more in the eastern Ningarhar province last night, sources said Monday (Aug. 18). The incident occurred in Farm Hada area, three kilometers to south of Jalalabad City when a vehicle of Ning...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation. The announcement was made in his address to nation on radio and television channels.
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MAIDAN SHAHAR (AIP): Ministry for Rural uplift has completed 41 reconstruction projects under National Solidarity Programme during the past one week in Maidan Wardak province. A statement issued by press office of Maidan Wardak province said 20 projects including potable water, construction of a...
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KHOST (AIP): Six police including a district police chief were wounded in mine explosion in Khost province today (Aug. 18), police said Monday. The roadside bomb exploded on a security patrol of police in Gurbaz district, said General Muhammad Qayum, police chief of Khost province. He told Afg...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Afghan officials Sunday claimed nine Taliban were killed in the Maqur district of Ghazni province yesterday (Aug. 16). Off the nine Taliban killed during ground and air raid in the Gadakhel areas, three were Afghans while the rest were Pakistani, Arab and Chechen fighters, said Sayy...