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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban attacked a convoy of foreign security company in the western Nimroz province last night, killing two and wounding six guards, an official of the company said Saturday (July 21). The convoy of US Protection and Investigations (USPI), a private US security company, was on way...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (July 21) said they had also killed the second German hostage today. "The German government failed to accept our demands that is why the second German hostage was also killed," Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf told Afghan Islamic Press. The first German w...
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KABUL (AIP): The commission appointed by President Hamid Karzai to investigate into masse grave issue submitted its report to president Friday (July 20). "We have completed the task and presented report to President Friday," said Fazl Hadi Shinwari, head of the commission. "Investigations, sta...
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KABUL (AIP): Three Afghan police were "unintentionally" wounded by ISAF helicopter fire after Taliban killed two policemen in Kandahar yesterday (July 20), an ISAF statement said Saturday. The two police officers were killed as Taliban opened fire on them at a checkpoint near Forward Operating Bas...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Saturday (July 21) executed five Afghan engineers who were captures with two Germans engineers on July 18. The two Germans were killed earlier today. "The two German and five Afghan engineers have been killed as the order of Taliban leadership council," Taliban spokesma...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban for the first time claimed responsibility for kidnapping two Germans and offered conditional release of the hostages. "Our leadership council has set two conditions for the release of two Germans who were picked up by Taliban along with five Afghan nationals," said Qari Mu...
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KABUL (AIP): Two Afghans were killed and two Coalition soldiers were wounded by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device in Helmand today (July 20), a coalition statement said Friday. The attack occurred as ANA and Coalition vehicles were passing through a bazaar in the village of Sangin, the st...
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MAZAR-E-SHARIF (AIP): Gunmen shot dead chief of provincial ulema council in Balkh province today (July 20), police said Friday. Spokesman of Balkh police department, Sher Jan Durrani told Afghan Islamic Press that two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on Maulvi Muhammad Aslam in Mazar Sh...
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KABUL (AIP): Eight suspected Taliban were detained and two wounded as Afghan and Coalition forces raided and were later attacked in Paktika early today (July 20), a coalition statement said Friday. "Credible intelligence led the forces to compounds suspected of harboring anti-coalition militants...
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ISLAMABAD (AIP): The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday (July 20) reinstated Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by declaring his suspension as unconstitutional. A 13-member full court started hearing of an appeal of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry against his suspension by P...