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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four workers of a construction company were wounded in an explosion in Zabul province today (Oct. 25), police said Saturday. The workers was traveling in a vehicle when it hit a landmine in Seuri area, said Ghulam Jelani, security chief of Zabul. He told Afghan Islamic Press...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unidentified assailants gunmen wounded seven people including three children in Uruzgan province today (Oct. 21), police said Tuesday. The attackers hurled hand-grenades on a private hotel in Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan, provincial police chief Juma Gul Hemmat told Afghan Islami...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Four Afghan solders were wounded during a clash continuing in the southern Uruzgan province since last night, police said Tuesday. The fighting was started between Afghan forces and Taliban in Chato Village of Dehrawad district last night, Juma Gul Hemmat, provincial police chief...
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KABUL (AIP): Three ministers whose portfolios were recently changed by President Hamid Karzai secured trust vote from Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) here on Monday (Oct. 20). The ministers appeared before the Wolesi Jirga and presented their plans in the lower house of parliament. La...
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GHAZNI (AIP): An Afghan soldier was killed and another wounded in a rocket attack on an election centre in Ghazni last night, an official said Monday. Spokesman of governor Ghazni, Said Ismail Jahangir, told Afghan Islamic press that the election centre was attacked in the Rashidan district....
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed General Attiqullah Lodin as the governor of Logar province. Afghanistan official radio reported that General Lodin was appointed as the governor of Logar province after the death of Abdullah Wardak who was killed in a mine explosion on Sept. 13...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen shot dead two teachers during separate attacks in Khost province yesterday (Oct. 20), a security official said Monday. In the first incident, a teacher was killed by unknown gunmen in Haroon Khel area of Ali Sher district, said Muhammad Yaqoob, security chief of K...
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HERAT (AIP): Police detained an Iranian woman on charges of kidnapping three children in the western Herat province, bordering Iran, today (Oct. 19), they claimed Sunday. Spokesman of the western police zone, Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told Afghan Islamic Press that woman was held in Herat City and she is...
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KUNDUZ (AIP): A roadside bomb struck the vehicle of district police chief in Kunduz province today (Oct. 19), causing no loss of life, governor said Sunday. The incident was happened in Khakani area, two km from Kunduz city when the vehicle of new police chief of Chahardari district, Baryali, str...
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HERAT (AIP): A suicide bomber crashed his explosive laden vehicle into a vehicle of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) vehicle near a base and Afghan National Army (ANA) today (Oct. 18), injuring at least four foreign troops, security officials said Saturday. Security officials told med...