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KABUL (AIP): Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated across Afghanistan today (Friday) with religious zeal and fervor. The government had yesterday (Oct. 11) announced that Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated tomorrow (Friday). The announcement was made after the Saudi Arabia government officially declared t...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): At least two police were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the southern Helmand province today (Oct. 12), police said Friday. The roadside bomb hit the police vehicle on Kandahar-Herat highway near Gereshk Eidgah soon after the Eid prayers, said Muhammad H...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Renowned jehadi commander of Kandahar, Mulla Naqibullah Akhunzada died of heart attack last night and laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Arghandab district today (Oct. 12). Over 100,000 people including a delegation representing President Hamid Karzai offered his funeral p...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Thursday (Oct. 11) said seven of the executed inmates of the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi Jail were Taliban. An email received by Afghan Islamic Press while quoting Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi said, "Seven of those prisoners who were executed in Kabul, wer...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): As many as 18 political prisoners were freed from the Kandahar jail Thursday (Oct. 11) after president announcement of remission on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr. Provincial attorney Ubaidullah Usmani told Afghan Islamic Press that the 18 released people who were in prison for sometime w...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mulla Muhammad Omar has warned government employees to stop working for the government. In a scanned copy of a press release received by Afghan Islamic Press by email, the Taliban leader said those who promise not to work for the government in the future wil...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Education Ministry Muhammad Hanif Atmar on Thursday (Oct. 11) said that 100 new schools would be constructed in Kandahar. Addressing a gathering of tribal elders and government officials, the minister said that government planned to construct 100 news schools in Kandahar with fina...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces killed one suspect and detained three others in the Khugyani district of eastern Ningarhar province yesterday (Oct. 10), an official said Thursday. Four people were planting a landmine at a road when a combined patrol of Afghan and coalition forces ope...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Newly constructed offices of the provincial headquarters of Nimroz province were opened. Governor of Nimroz province Ghulam Dastagir Azad told Afghan Islamic Press Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the new provincial headquarter building was constructed at of cost 2.5 million dollars in on...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Seven suspected Taliban were killed and a commander detained during operation in the southern Kandahar province, police claimed Wednesday (Oct. 10). Afghan forces launched operation in the Zehri district yesterday which continued today, said Sayyed Agha Saqib, police chief of Kand...