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HERAT (AIP): Police have seized 73 kilograms opium and arrested one person in Herat province last night (Dec 30). Herat provincial police chief colonel Dilawar Shah Dilawar told AIP that police have seized 73 kilograms poppy, arms and a quantity of cartridges in Gorayan district bordering Iran fr...
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KABUL (AIP): French Defence Minister Herve Morin arrived in Kabul Wednesday (Dec 31). Morin was due to meet President Hamid Karzai besides he will also meet with French troops. France has approximately 3,000 troops in Afghanistan who were time and again engage in clashes with Taliban. 16:25 G...
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KHOST (AIP): Foreign troops came under attack on Khost-Gardaiz highway on Monday (Dec 29). Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AIP that Taliban have attacked a carvan of foreign soldiers on Khost-Gardaiz highway in Sato-Kandoo area. As a result the spokesman said that two tanks of the troo...
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PESHAWAR: Five oil tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for international troops were set ablaze near the Pak-Afghan border on Monday (Dec 29) evening. Security authorities from Torkham told AIP, an explosion occurred between parked oil tankers at a petrol station which erupted fire among those t...
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KABUL (AIP): Coalition forces detained eight suspected Haqqani Taliban, including the two targeted individuals, during an operation to disrupt the Haqqani foreign fighters and roadside bomb network in Paktiya province, Monday (Dec 30). In Shamul district, approximately 135 km south of Kabul City,...
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KABUL (AIP): At least fourteen persons including seven women have been injured in a road accident near Maidan Shahar, Wardag province on Tuesday (Dec 30). Wardag province governor spokesman Adam Khan Seerat told AIP that the road mishap has occurred when two vehicles collided with each at morning...
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KABUL (AIP): Parliament deputy assistant Burhanu Din Shinwari condemned Israel on Tuesday over air attacks on Gaza Strip that have killed more than 350 Palestinians. In a press statement issued from parliament media office said the whole world has denounced the act of Israel regarding air strikes...
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KHOST (AIP): Two soldiers of Afghan National Army were wounded in a gun and hand grenade attack in Baak district of Khost province yesterday (Dec. 28), an official said Monday. The assailants opened fire on ANA troops from a vehicle and threw hand grenade on them, said Said Khan Wafa, district of...
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KHOST (AIP): A suicide bomber detonated himself in front of a district headquarters building in Khost province today (Dec. 28), causing casualties, an official said Sunday. Initial reports suggest that three people were wounded when the suicide blew up his explosive packed vehicle outside the bui...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen shot a member of Kandahar Ulema Council in Kandahar city last night, deputy chief of the council said Sunday (Dec. 28). Maulvi Abdul Qayum was killed in his room inside a mosque Soor Jamia Masjid of the city, said Maulvi Hekmatullah Hekmat, deputy chief of Kandahar...