PESHAWAR (AIP): Four persons were killed and five others wounded on Sunday when two groups exchanged fire over a petty issue in Khost province, sources said. Sources said the clash took place at Maqubalo area, Lakan district in which four persons were killed and five injured. Police chief...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three Taliban including a commander were arrested in Oruzgan province during a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces on Thursday, an official said. Talking to AIP on Friday, chief commander of Kandahar army corps No-205 Muslim Amid said that combined forces detained thre...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A police officer was killed and another wounded in a landmine blast in eastern Kunor province last night. The AIP sources from capital Asadabad said that a police contingent was pulling out remains of Saturday mine blast which left three person dead when another explosion rocked...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The tribes of eastern Nangarhar province have decided that they will not exterminate opium poppies if the government failed to provide remuneration to the cultivators. A gathering of Shinwari tribes from Acheen and Spinghar districts held and unanimously decided that they would n...

March 31, 2005 PESHAWAR (AIP): A key Taliban commander has joined government in southern Helmund province on Wednesday. Former Taliban commander Abdul Wahid announced support to government at Lashkargha, capital Helmund province. A government official in Helmund confirmed to AIP that the pr...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A police official in northern Balkh province was removed by Interior Ministry from his office on the complaints of local people who protested against him for his alleged involvement in criminal activities. The AIP sources from Mazar-e-Sharif said that the residents staged a prote...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday inaugurated construction work on Herat-Kandahar Highway in western Herat province. Mr. Karzai accompanied by US ambassador to Afghanistan Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad and a Saudi diplomat opened construction work on 557 kilometers road between He...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Three persons were killed on Tuesday in dam rupture incident in Ghazni province, governor said Wednesday. Governor Asadullah Khanlid told AIP that earlier there were reports of six deaths but added that three persons had been killed in flood. An official told AIP on Tuesday t...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A bomb exploded near Governor House in Jalalabad City of eastern Nangarhar province, killing one person on Wednesday. The explosion reported approximately at 8:10 am (local time) at a distance of some 300 meters from governor house killing the attacker. Security in-charge of...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Four policemen were killed and another injured in an attack in Farah province on Wednesday. A border security official Commander Toryali told AIP that unknown gunmen attacked police petrol and killed four policemen including an officer Abdul Raheem at Doghal area, Anardaru distri...