PESHAWAR (AIP): Khost airport came under rocket attack from some unknown assailants last night, reports said. According to eyewitnesses, at least nine rockets were fired at Khost airport, situated at Sarabagh area, about five kilometers northeast of Khost bazaar. The eyewitnesses living around the...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan government has postponed admission test for Nangarhar University on the demand of hundreds of students who were complaining of unavailability of roll numbers. Reports said that the admission test was scheduled for admission in Nangarhar University Jalalabad tomorrow (Sunday)...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Five Afghan workers of a UN body were killed and two other injured when their vehicle was attacked by some unidentified armed men in northeast of Afghan capital on Wednesday, reports said. The incident took place when a vehicle of Sani Development, which is body of UN came under at...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The UN refugee Agency would resume its voluntary repatriation from March 2, 3004, said a press release issued by the UNHCR Islamabad office on Thursday. Ends

PESHAWAR (AIP): Security forces of southern Zabul province on Monday seized 102 kilograms opium on Kabul-Kandahar highway, reports said. An official of Zabul security told AIP that the opium had been kept in the secret cavities of the vehicle. He added that it was being carried to Kandahar from Gha...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The authorities of eastern Nangarhar province have arrested two persons, who allegedly planned the attack on Jalalabad airport on Saturday evening. The officials said that the accused were detained along with some rockets and remote control bombs at Saraacha area, about eight kilom...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The number of registered voters has been reached one million in Afghanistan on Wednesday, reports said. The registration process is going on in some parts of the country to register more and more voters for the upcoming polls expected to be held in June this year. The number of vote...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban have claimed killing 14 US soldiers in central Afghanistan in the last two days. A statement released to newspapers in Peshawar on Monday evening by Hamid Agha, spokesman of Taliban Movement said that three Americans soldiers were killed in an assault on a convoy of US forc...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Authorities in western Herat province have closed a course started by an NGO to teach driving to women. AIP sources said that a non-governmental organization had started a driving course to provide driving learning facilities to women in Herat. However, the organizers of the course...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The residefnts at Kabul camp in Jalalabad said that they would never vacate the camp unless the government rehabilitates them in other places near the city. A commission constituted by the Jalalabad administration had issued notices to the residents of the Kabul camp situated about...