PESHAWAR (AIP): Local authorities in Peshawar on Saturday disallowed Afghan refugees to perform Eid prayer in the camps. According to details, the refugees living in NWFP observed Muslim religious festival with Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and other Islamic countries where it celebrated on Saturday...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed that they attacked bases of America and Afghan forces in Farah and Zabul provinces last night (Friday November 12). Spokesman of Taliban Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi told AIP that Taliban fired six rockets at a base of US troops situated at Atghar district, Zabul....

PESHAWAR (AIP): A former commander of Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan was murdered by unknown persons at Peshawar on Friday (November 12). Sources close to the commander told AIP that the ex-Jamiat commander Muhammad Anwar alias Dungar was praying at his home situated in Hayatabad, Peshawar when uni...

PESHAWAR (AIP): One Afghan soldier was killed in southeastern Khost province yesterday evening, an official said Thursday. Talking to AIP, Governor of Khost Merajuddin Pathan said that the police and Afghan soldiers were on routine duty when a resident of the area opened fire, killing a policem...

PESHAWAR (AIP): An Afghan commander who earlier denied surrendering heavy weapons was arrested by Afghan and Americans forces in western Ghor province on Sunday, governor said. The governor of Ghor Abdul Qadir Elum told AIP from Chaghcharan that a number of US and Afghan forces arrived by helicop...

PESHAWAR (AIP): The US airplanes sprayed poisonous chemical over poppy crop in some parts of eastern Nangarhar province in the last few days, eyewitnesses said. The residents of Khogyani district said standing poppies have been exterminated due to toxic spray by the American planes in the last so...

PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban claimed to have kidnapped an Afghan Crimes Cell incharge along with his companion in southern Kandahar province on Saturday. Talking to AIP on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman Mufti Lateefullah Hakeemi said that they abducted Toryali Sardar, in-charge of Crimes Cell along with...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A Peshawar-based Afghan trade commissioner was arrested by Pakistani police after fake Pakistani currency and heroin was recovered from his car. According to a local Urdu daily Mashriq, the Afghan trade commissioner Syed Abdullah Bacha was arrested by police after recovery of Rs1...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A spokesman of Jaishul Muslimeen has said that both sides (govt and Jaish) agreed to hold talks on Sunday regarding the release of three foreign hostages. Spokesman Syed Khalid told AIP on Saturday that Afghan government and UN delegation arrived at the place but they have not de...

PESHAWAR (AIP): A government soldier was killed and another wounded on Thursday night in a clash with unknown persons in eastern Kunor province last night, sources said. Sources from Asadabd, capital of Kunor, said that a fierce combat occurred between American forces and unidentified armed men a...