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PESHAWAR (AIP): The Afghan Election Commission has announced to hold the upcoming elections in third week of September 2005, however, the final date yet to be decided. This was stated by chairman of the Commission Bismallah Bismal in an exclusive interview with the AIP on Tuesday. He rejected repo...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Hundreds of people blocked Mazar-Kabul highway on Tuesday as a protest against land grabbers in Balkh province. Police chief of Balkh General Muhammad Akram Khakraizwal told AIP that as many as 600 protesters took to the streets in Tash-e-Qarghan district and blocked Mazar-Kabul...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday inaugurated Charikaar-Punjshir road being constructed by a US company in Punjshir valley and Parwan province. The road is 77 kilometers long which is funded by a US firm. The US ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan F...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Thousands of protestors staged a gathering in Afghan capital to commemorate sacrifices of 24,000 people killed by the communist regime on March 14 1979 in western Herat province. They gathered at Shahi Doshamshira area and chanted slogans against the government. They chanted slog...
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March 13, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban accepted responsibility for blowing up a vehicle carrying food items for US forces at Khost-Gardez highway on Sunday. Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP over telephone that they destroyed a vehicle transporting goods for US forces at Is...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan security forces seized more than a ton opium after a brief clash with smugglers at Kandahar-Herat highway on Friday evening. The AIP sources from Kandahar said that the highway guards recovered 1200 kilogram opium from a landcruiser coming from Kandahar city at Kushk-e-Nakh...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Nangarhar Police has set on fire 150 kilograms opium worth thousands of US dollars on Saturday. Police chief of Ghani Khail district Matiaullah Khalid told AIP that Anti-Narcotics Department and police personnel arrived at five helicopters on Thursday (March 10) and started search...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): A police officer of Nangarhar was killed in a bomb blast on Friday night, an official said Saturday. Deputy police chief of Nangarhar Qari Ameer Jan Liwal told journalists at Jalalabad that the slain police officer was identified as Khushaal of Khewa district. He said the offi...
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PESHAWAR (AIP): Two persons were injured when guards of a foreign construction company opened fire at a vehicle on Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Saturday evening. The AIP sources from Jalalabad said that two passengers traveling in a corolla car wounded when guards of a Chinese construction company...
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March 12, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): Five persons were injured in exchange of fire between guards of two Afghan officials in Zabul province on Friday, governor said Saturday. Governor of Zabul Dilber Jan Arman told AIP that guards of in-charge Arghandab district Abdul Qayyum and police chief of Shahjoe...