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KABUL (AIP): Five members of Wolesi Jirga, killed in the Baghlan explosion, were laid to rest in the vicinity of parliament house in Kabul today (Nov. 09) with their five bodyguards. Funeral prayers of the deceased parliamentarian and their bodyguards were offered near Darul Aman which was atteneded...
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KABUL (AIP): Afghan president Hamid Karzai has announced three-day mourning of the deadliest blast which killed at least 42 people on Tuesday (Nov 6) including six lawmakers and children, during a press conference in Kabul today (Wednesday). Hamid Karzai said that according to official figure at...
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KABUL (AIP): Death toll in yesterday suicide blast reached 35 on Wednesday (Nov 7), said doctors in the Baghlam main hospital. The suicide blast, which occurred in a sugar factory in northern Baghlan province at the time when schoolchildren were welcoming Afghan lawmakers. Six lawmakers were amon...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): The visiting defence minister of Canada remained unhurt in a missile attack on a Canadian military base in Pashmol area in Zheri district of southern Kandahar province yesterday afternoon (November 6), the press office of Canadian forces in Kandahar said on Wednesday. It said t...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Unknown gunmen shot and killed a member of provincial council of southern Helmand province last night, official sources told AIP today (Wednesday). An official on condition of anonymity told AIP that the member of provincial council, Haji Din Mohammad Khan was shot dead by some u...
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QALAT (AIP): Some unknown highwaymen fired RPG rockets at two passengers vans yesterday (Nov 6) on Kabul-Kandahar highway in Zabul province near Aman Pul area, killing at least eight passengers in one and injuring three others in the second vehicle, an official said on condition of anonymity. An off...
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QALAT (AIP): Taliban attacked a base of Afghan National Army in the Shinkai district of Zabul province last night, injuring two soldiers, an ANA commander said Wednesday (Nov. 07). A commander of Afghan National Army, Mulla Abdul Raziq told Afghan Islamic Press that the Taliban attacked the ANA b...
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KABUL (AIP): Police seized and torched huge quantity of narcotics in the Abdul Khail district of eastern Ningarhar province Nov. 4, interior ministry said Tuesday (Nov. 06). Personnel of the counter-narcotics police seized 90 kilograms of morphine, 350 kilograms of opium, 510 kilograms of banne...
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KABUL (AIP): A suicide bomber killed and wounded over 100 people including parliament members in the northern Baghlan province today (Nov. 06), police said Tuesday. A police officer of Balghlam told Afghan Islamic Press on condition of anonymity that 12 members of parliament and provincial council...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Tuesday condemned suicide attack in Baghlan in which over 100 people including parliament members and school children killed and wounded. "The Baghlan explosion was not conducted by Taliban and we were not behind the explosion," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afgha...