KABUL (AIP): A team of American diplomats in Kabul visited the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi Jail Tuesday and collected in formations about a US prisoner made hostage by rioting inmates.Well-placed sources informed Afghan Islamic Press that a delegation of US diplomats went to Pul-e-Charkhi Jail to gather...

KABUL (AIP): Situation is still tense in Pul-e-Charkhi Jail today (Wednesday) as there was no sign which shows that the standoff has been resolved completely after negotiations between representatives of rioting prisoners and officials of National Reconciliation Commission. Meanwhile three big buses...

JALALABAD (AIP): The authorities of eastern Ningarhar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday slapped a ban on chicken imports from Pakistan and directed all chicken traders to disposes off the chicken till evening.Agriculture Department of Ningarhar province has asked all the chicken sellers to either...

PESHWAR (AIP): As many as 10500 chickens, believed to have developed bird flu virus, were culled at a poultry farm in Dehri Zardad, district Charsadda, 30 kilometer from Peshawar last night.District investigation officers and operation incharge, Dr. Sher Muhammad, while talking to journalists on Tue...

KABUL (AIP): The Pul-e-Charkhi Jail standoff has not yet been over as bursts of gunfire were heard from inside the high-security jails just a while back (Tuesday afternoon).Security forces near Pul-e-Charkh confirmed to journalists that a group of prisoners tried to come out of the jail but police o...

KANDAHAR (AIP): Sixty Taliban who occupied different posts during Taliban government announced allegiance to Afghan government in Kandahar on Sunday.Some of them remained a at key government positions including, governor, deputy governor, mayor, district chief and police chief but most of them did n...

KABUL (AIP): The furious inmates of Pul-e-Charkhi Jail have made an American prisoner hostage, source said Monday.A prisoner phoned the office of a foreign Television in Kabul from Pul-e-Charkhi Jail and said the prisoners have made hostage an American national who was undergoing imprisonment in thi...

KABUL (AIP): Head of National Reconciliation Commission, Professor Sibghatullah Mujadidi arrived at Pul-e-Charkhi Jail and held negociations with rioting prisoners.

KABUL (AIP): Situation still tense as prisoners clashed with security personnel in Pul-e-Carkhi Jail, leaving four people dead and wounding more than 30 last night, informed sources said Sunday.The clashes started last night and are still continuing while informed sources rejected reports that situa...

KABUL (AIP): Former governor of Urozgan province, Jan Muhammad Khan has been appointed advisor to Afghan President on Saturday.A news report broadcasted by National Television of Afghanistan suggested that Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed former governor Jan Muhammad Khan as advisor for triba...