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KABUL (AIP): Afghan Revenue Minister, Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi who tendered his resignation a few days back, officially said goodbye to his ministry and officials yesterday (Dec. 19), a spokesman said Friday. Aziz Shams, a spokesman of the revenue ministry told Afghan Islamic Press Ahadi wanted to brin...
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KABUL (AIP): The Commerce and Trade Minister Muhammad Amin Farhang has been dismissed from the ministry after parliament member heavily voted against him here on Thursday (Dec 18). The minister was severely criticized by the parliament members and the minister did not give proper answers to the que...
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HERAT (AIP): Afghan border police seized 500 kg of drugs in the western Herat province bordering Iran last night, they claimed Wednesday (Dec. 17). Commander of southwestern border police zone, Brigadier Pohanyar Shah Malham told Afghan Islamic Press that border police ambushed drug smugglers i...
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KHOST (AIP): Unidentified gunmen killed a worker of a private construction company and wounded five more in Khost province late yesterday (Dec. 15), an official said Tuesday. The gunmen attacked the workers of the private company working on the construction of a boarder post in Ali Sher district...
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JALALABAD (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted four workers of a road construction company in the eastern Kunar province yesterday (Dec. 15), police said Tuesday. The workers including a driver were on way to Asadabad, capital of Kunar province from Ghaziabad district when kidnapped by the gunmen...
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KABUL (AIP): Newly appointed minister for refugees, Abdul Karim Brahvi, has officially started work on Tuesday (Dec. 16). Talking to journalists soon after taking charge of his office said that he would urge officials of Iran not expel Afghans during the winter season. Barahvi also promised to...
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KABUL (AIP): Counter narcotics police destroyed two heroin laboratories in Badakhshan province last night, interior ministry said Tuesday (Dec. 16). The interior ministry in a statement said that 112 kg liquid opium in four barrel and some other items were recovered from the laboratories in Gandamko...
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KHOST (AIP): A military court awarded capital punishment to a policeman and seven years imprisonment to his colleague today (Dec. 17) after finding them guilty of killing two children in Kandahar province, a military attorney said Tuesday. The policemen raided a house in the Zehri district of Kan...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Unidentified gunmen abducted a provincial attorney in Ghazni province yesterday (Dec. 14), an official said Monday. Sahar Gul was on way to his home in Bakawal Village from his office when he was abducted the gunmen, Said Ismail Jahangir, spokesman of governor of Ghazni told Afghan...
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KABUL (AIP): Personnel of 203rd Thunder Corps killed six Taliban during and wounded several more during an operation in Ghazni province yesterday (Dec. 14), defence ministry said Monday. The operation was conducted in Jamjama area of Maqur district, the defence ministry said in a statement. T...