PESHAWAR (AIP): Counting of votes completed in southern Kandarhar province with Hamid Karzai secured majority of the votes in his hometown. Following are details of result announced in Kandahar stadium on Thursday: Total votes polled : 312576 Rejected votes : 3680 Votes cast : 308896 H...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Hamid Karzai achieved landslide victory in eastern Afghanistan after completion of counting amid reports of numerical controversy in Nooristan province. Vote counting ended in Pashtoon dominated provinces-Nangrahar, Laghman, Kunor and Nooristan provinces on Wednesday afternoon....

PESHAWAR (AIP): A high military official of eastern Laghman province said Tuesday that Taliban insurgents fired rockets at 100-army brigade on Tuesday night, causing no casualties. An official of 100-brigade commander Khan Wali told AIP from Mehtharlam, capital of Laghman province that Taliban...

PESHAWAR (AIP): An election official was killed by Taliban on Monday in Paktika province, police said Provincial Police Chief Muhammad Raheem Ali Khel told AIP over phone from Sharana, capital of Paktika that Dr. Abdul Sattar was going to his clinic situated at Yahya Khail bazaar when his car wa...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday night claimed to have killed an election official in Paktika province. A spokesman for Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over phone that the election official Dr. Abdul Sattar was shot dead in at Yaha Khillo area. Hakeemi also claimed that three Af...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan interim President Hamid Karzai appears to be leading the presidential elections after results received from eastern Afghanistan on Sunday. Talking to newsmen at Jalalabad, an election official Hidayatullah Watanyar said that votes collected from Kunor, Nangarhar and Laghman...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Votes counting completed in southern Kandahar province on Sunday with Hamid Karzai bagging 84% votes in Zabul province. The total votes polled in Zabul province were brought to Kandahar stadium where election staff completed its counting process today. According to details fi...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Deputy Governor of Laghman province Dr. Lal Meer Jaffer and his son were injured on Thursday (Oct 14) when unknown assailants opened fire on them in Laghman. Mr. Lal Meer Jaffer told AIP over telephone on Saturday morning from hospital that he was sitting outside his home when un...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Counting of votes started in eastern Jalalabad City on Saturday, sources confirmed. The sources said that the ballot boxes collected from eastern provinces were placed in Jalalabad where its counting begun. Ballots collected from 40 boxes in Laghman province were counted, show...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Two Taliban fighters were killed while an American soldier wounded in a shootout in Oruzgan province on Thursday (October 15), an official said. Governor of Oruzgan Jan Muhammad told AIP that Taliban destroyed a vehicle of US forces by a remote control bomb at Kesh area, Charchino...